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...Christian Cooper will soon appear on National Geographic as a presenter for the birdwatching series Extraordinary Birder, the channel announced this week.

While no launch date has been set, the programme will allegedly take viewers "into the wild, wonderful and unpredictable world of birds," the channel said.

"Whether braving stormy seas in Alaska for puffins, trekking into rainforests in Puerto Rico for parrots, or scaling a bridge in Manhattan for a peregrine falcon," the statement continued. "He does whatever it takes to learn about these extraordinary feathered creatures and show us the remarkable world in the sky above"....