Christian Cooper

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Christian Cooper (born 1963) is an American television host, writer and editor. He hosted National Geographic's Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper, for which he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Daytime Personality – Non-Daily in 2024. Cooper first gained cultural notoriety in 2020 after a false police report was made by a white dogwalker who went viral for her erratic behavior while calling the police on him birdwatching in New York City's Central Park, known as the Central Park birdwatching incident. He has since written a memoir, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World, which was published by Random House in 2023.

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