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Presenter: Scott Weidensaul

Even as scientists make astounding discoveries about the navigational and physiological feats that enable migratory birds to cross immense oceans or fly above the highest mountains, go weeks without sleep or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch, humans have brought many migrants to the brink. Based on his newest book "A World on the Wing," author and researcher Scott Weidensaul takes you around the globe -from the shores of the Yellow Sea in China, to the remote mountains of northeastern India and the Mediterranean -- to learn how people are fighting to understand and save the world's great bird migrations.

Weidensaul’s writing career began in 1978 with a weekly natural history column which led to a full-time newspaper job he held until 1988 when he left to become a freelance writer specializing in nature and wildlife. He has written more than thirty books, including his widely acclaimed Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, which became a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, was published in March 2021. Widensaul is an active field researcher whose work focuses on bird migration. He is co-director of Project Owlnet, a collaborative effort among nearly 125 banding research stations across North America studying owl migration. Weidensaul co-founded Project SNOWstorm, which uses cutting-edge tracking technology to study snowy owls. He is also part of  a continental effort to understand the rapid evolution, by several species of western hummingbirds, of a new migratory route and wintering range in the East.  

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