Black Birder Christian Cooper Overcame ‘Central Park Karen’ and Is Now a TV Star
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/National Geographic“I have a nene wedged between my thighs,” Christian Cooper says onscreen with the sort of joy few of us would muster if a Hawaiian goose nestled in our privates.Cooper, however, is a birder, and very likely the only one you can name.Part of that is because he helms Nat Geo’s Extraordinary Birder with Christian Cooper streaming on Disney+. This series garnered Cooper two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. (The awards show airs Saturday, June 8 on CBS and streams on Paramount+, and via the Emmys viewing page.) One of his nods is for “Travel, Adventure and Nature Program,” and the other for “Daytime Personality–Non-Daily.”Read more at The Daily Beast.