Over the past 24 hours, Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom have announced their respective entries of Hijra and My Father’s Shadow, while Uganda also revealed last week that it had submitted Kimote.

Birding is having something of a pop-culture moment. Uzo Aduba’s “world’s greatest detective,” from this summer’s Netflix hit The Residence, was a birder, as is Mark Ruffalo’s FBI agent character in ...

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