Cultivating more-than-human care: Exploring bird watching as a landscaping practice on the example of sand martins and flooded gravel pits

The environmental crisis has created a demand for practices that build awareness about the interconnections of diverse forms life, allowing humans to understand complex earthly relationships and reconnect with land they inhabit. This paper contributes this debate by investigating bird watching activities their relevance architects landscape architects. Drawing upon multispecies studies notion thinking, it examines potential birding as caring landscaping practice. It analyzes relationship between birders sand martins in two case probes how develop attentiveness birds shared environment. investigation suggests fosters care beyond observed species. can trigger practice comparable thinking helps land, fostering response-able spatial design practices.