Podcast appearances and mentions of scott weidensaul

Billy talked with author Scott Weidensaul about the wonders of bird migration and how urbanite humans can make their city habitats better for avian visitors. Topics include shorebirds, songbirds, raptors, outdoor cats, dogs, urban parks, window collisions, artificial light at … Continue reading →

Trevor Herriot grew up exploring the aspen parkland and grasslands of southern Saskatchewan, deeply connected to the natural world around him. His passion for the prairies led him to become one of Canada's most vocal proponents for the protection of grassland birds through his writing.With a recently released first novel, The Economy of Sparrows, and several award winning non-fictions books under his belt, we were keen to sit down with Trevor to learn more about what drives his grassland focused writing, and explore the threats and issues that are top of mind for many across the prairies.Help bird habitats today, simply by sipping on a cup of Birds and Beans coffee! When you purchase through this link, Birds and Beans will even donate 10% of the purchase price to Birds Canada. Thank you!  Recommended reading from this episode:The Economy of Sparrows - Trevor HerriotGrass, Sky, Song - Trevor HerriotHours and the Birds - R. D. SymonsThe Wind Birds - Peter MatthiessenThe Singing Life of Birds - Donald KroodsmaThe Spell of the Sensuous - David AbramArctic Dreams - Barry LopezBraiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall KimmererThe Unsettling of America - Wendell BerryOr anything written by Scott Weidensaul or Aldo LeopoldIf you've got another book that listeners would love, please leave your recommendation in a review! Trevor Herriot is a naturalist, grassland conservationist, and the author of several award-winning books, including Grass, Sky, Song and the national bestseller River in a Dry Land, both of which were short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction. He is a recipient of the Kloppenburg Award for Literary Merit and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. He and his wife Karen live in Regina, and spend much of their time on a piece of Aspen Parkland prairie east of the city. His latest work, The Economy of Sparrows is his eighth book, but first novel.Jody Allair is an avid birder and naturalist who enjoys sharing his enthusiasm for the natural world. He is the Director of Community Engagement at Birds Canada and has written numerous articles on birds, birding and connecting with nature. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram at @JodyAllair.Andrea Gress (she/her) secretly thinks Piping Plovers are better than all the other birds...studied Renewable Resource Management at the University of Saskatchewan. She pivoted towards birds, after an internship in South Africa. Upon returning, she worked with Piping Plovers in Saskatchewan, and then as the Ontario Piping Plover Coordinator. Years of sharing her love of plovers with beach goers has turned into a full time communications role with Birds Canada.  

Chris and Nell speak with Scott Weidensaul, naturalist and author, who was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for his book "Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds." (1:08) Then, Mitch Dumke and McKinley Smoot of 3 Springs Land and Livestock come on the show to discuss regenerative farming. (26:07)

This Bar-tailed Godwit makes one of the longest migrations of any animal — a 7,200-mile non-stop flight each autumn from western Alaska to New Zealand. In his book A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul explores the remarkable transformation godwits undergo to make this migration possible. Their digestive organs shrink as their weight more than doubles in stored fats and muscle mass.More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.

Ihre Leistungen sind verblüffend und faszinierend. Zugvögel legen jedes Jahr tausende Kilometer nonstop zurück und schlafen sogar im Flug. Doch sie sind gefährdet. Ihre Zahl hat drastisch abgenommen, die Brut- und Rastplätze schwinden. Scott Weidensaul erzählt lebendig und anschaulich von den Leistungen der Zugvögel und ihrer Gefährdung durch Mensch und Klimawandel. | Rezension von Johannes Kaiser | Aus dem Amerikanischen von Sebastian Vogel | Hanser Blau, 430 Seiten, 26 Euro | ISBN 978-3-446-27312-2

Summary: Bird migration is one of the most amazing journeys that any animal undertakes. Join Cheryl and Kiersten as they delve into how humans discovered bird migration, what we know about it, and what we are still trying to figure out. Show Notes: Audubon Magazine Spring 2022: The Wonder of Migration “Have Wings Will Travel” by Alisa Opar, 20-27 “A Matter of Timing” by Scott Weidensaul, 29-33 “Birds of a Feather” by Barry Yeoman, 48-53 Background bird song:  Naturescapes Backyard Birds www.naturescapes.com Our email address, please reach out with comments, questions, or suggestions: thefeathereddesert@gmail.com   We are no longer sponsored by Wild Birds Unlimited, Mesa but through personal experience we highly recommend their products. 

September 13, 2022--Hosts Tim Bray and Bob Spies talk with Scott Weidensaul, avian researcher and author of "A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migrating Birds." He describes some of the fantastic discoveries being made about the navigational and physiological feats performed by migratory birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, forgo sleep for days or weeks, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch, using infrasound, the earth's magnetic field, and even quantum entanglement.

Sandy is an artist, instructor and writer exploring the world through her sketchbook. Sandy uses field sketching to learn about her environment, coming to know the landscape and its inhabitants more deeply through creativity and mindful observation.Listen to hear more about:Sandy's first memories of nature and art.The process of ‘bushwhacking' a path to find her professional career.Sandy's difficulty in owning the label of “artist” and the beautiful story of how she came to see herself as she truly is.Exploring anxieties through a sketchbook.Sandy's favourite art tools.How Sandy brings ‘purposeful play' into her personal practice and her classes.Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness.The importance of birds in Sandy's work and the summer-long ‘spark experience' that got her hooked on birding.Find out more about Sandy and her work at https://www.sandymcdermott.com. You can also find Sandy on Instagram and Facebook. To learn more about Sandy's year-long course, Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness, you can email her at sandy@sandymcdermott.com or put your name on the priority list here.The Hand Book Paper Co. Travelogue watercolor journal that Sandy talked about can be found here.You can find the book Living On the Wind by Scott Weidensaul here. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated.Thanks for listening!

An interview with Scott Weidensaul, author of A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds. The book is exhilarating exploration of the science and wonder of global bird migration.

Post Episode Trailers are short episodes in which I highlight an earlier episode that is worth watching. This episode is about Episode 12 of The Bird Podcast in which author and migration expert, Scott Weidensaul talks about the amazing feats that birds do in order to migrate.

On today's This Green Earth, Nell and Chris speak with (01:44) New York Times Best Selling Author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul. On the heels of birding week and world migration bird day, Weidensaul will be talking about how climate change is affecting bird migratory patterns and what that means for the birds and the ecosystems they encounter.Then, (30:00) Brandy Smith from Utah Clean Energy will come on the show to discuss the growth of clean energy in Utah and the organization's 20-year anniversary.

Laura asked Scott Weidensaul about the people he features in his new children's picture book, *A Warbler's Journey*, and also more about Yellow Warblers and their treacherous migration.

Laura had a long conversation with Scott Weidensaul earlier this month. Here is Part 1 of their conversation about Scott's new book, *A Warbler's Journey.*

One of Laura's favorite writers, Scott Weidensaul, has written a children's picture book that Laura loves.

Thanks to recent advances in research, our understanding of the navigation and physical feats performed by migratory birds has exploded. These amazing far-traveling birds from around the world are showcased in the book, “A World on the Wing: the Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds” by Scott Weidensaul.

Long-time naturalist and writer Scott Weidensaul has spent decades tracking migratory birds and studying their habits. But there's still a lot science doesn't know. In this episode of The Future of Everything, we talk to Weidensaul about the findings of his latest book, "A World On The Wing”, including the risks facing migrators and why unraveling their mysteries might have implications for the future of mankind. To read Weidensaul's "A World On The Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds" visit: https://bit.ly/3rtvUJq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's episode was produced by Ari Daniel, Allison Wilson, Mark Bramhill, Conor Gearin, and Sam Johnson. Fact checking by Conor Gearin, mixing by John Kessler. Original theme music by Ian Coss. Special thanks to Willistown Conservation Trust.Additional Resources:A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds | Book by Scott Weidensaul Motus Wildlife Tracking System: Explore GPS-Tracked Bird Migration RoutesOne Way to Save Birds: Pay Farmers to Flood Their Land | KQEDA boon for birds: Once overlooked, China's mudflats gain protections | MongabayA Phenomenal Discovery, Bringing A Glimmer Of Hope To A Declining Species Of Bird | ManometA bird's eye view of quantum entanglement | NOVA

This Bar-tailed Godwit makes one of the longest migrations of any animal — a 7,200-mile non-stop flight each autumn from western Alaska to New Zealand. In his book A World on the Wing, Scott Weidensaul explores the remarkable transformation godwits undergo to make this migration possible. Their digestive organs shrink as their weight more than doubles in stored fats and muscle mass. Learn more at BirdNote.org.

The wonder and peril of bird migration with author Scott Weidensaul. Teaching computer models to identify birdsong to aid in conservation. The Department of Energy listens to community perspectives on the ethane and petrochemical industries. News about Shell's Falcon pipeline and climate education in Pa. schools.

When you fall in love with Wyoming, it's often because of the wide open spaces we're known for. This episode highlights outdoor recreation in our state; the effects we have on the natural world, and how it affects us. I interview Dr. Abigail Sisneros-Kidd and we learn about the town of Wapiti. Then I talk about an animal of which Scott Weidensaul said, "Before the East was logged, tamed and farmed...it, too, was the home of a creature the color of wheat that the Shawnee called wapiti." Join me to learn more! See the shownotes for links and reference information presented in this episode.

Scott Weidensaul is one of the most respected natural history writers in the country. Among the more than 30 books he's written are Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. His latest book is A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you're interested in bird migration, this episode is for you! Scott is an author, an ornithologist and a naturalist with an encyclopedic knowledge of world-wide bird migration. We discuss in detail the latest findings in migration studies made possible by the advances in tracking technology. If you want more detail, get his latest book "A World on the Wing" on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3f6cAuh or through your local bookstore at www.bookshop.org Scott's website: http://www.scottweidensaul.com/ For more information about birds including the ones mentioned in this podcast, I recommend https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ and if you need help identifying birds in your photos I highly recommend their Merlin app https://bit.ly/3o47H93 Photos of a few of the birds mentioned in this podcast: Red Knot Bar-tailed Godwit Pectoral Sandpiper Thanks for listening! Please subscribe and tell your friends about the podcast!! Kirby kirby@flanaganfotos.com    

Scott Weidensaul is living a life of avian adventure. His recent book, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migration, has become a New York Times bestseller--and for good reason: Scott is a masterful storyteller. A field ecologist and bird bander, a founder of Project SnowStorm and Project Owlnet, and an active bird migration researcher, his Migrations column keeps BWD readers eager to receive and devour each new issue. In this episode of Out There with the Birds, editor Dawn Hewitt asks Scott about his long ties to Bird Watcher's Digest, and recent revelations resulting from rapidly evolving technology on bird migration.

"By the time a bar-tailed godwits dies, it would have flown to the moon and most of the way back," says ornithologist and author Scott Weidensaul.  A bar-tailed godwit flies 18,000 miles a year. By the time it dies, it will have flown closer to 500,000 miles. In this episode, Scott talks about the magnificent migrations of birds-- the songs they sing while in flight and how they undergo binge-eating before they take off on their epic journeys. Comparing a migratory bird to an elite athlete insults the bird, he says. Arctic terns, for instance, sometimes travels a staggering 57,000 miles a year, he says. Scott celebrates the natural world—particularly birds and bird migration—in his research, his writing and his public speaking. Weidensaul spearheads a number of major research projects focusing on bird migration. His latest book is “The World on the Wing: the global Odyssey of migratory birds.” He has written more than 30 books on natural history, including Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; The Ghost with Trembling Wings, about the search for species that may or may not be extinct; Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians; Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding; The First Frontier: The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery and Endurance in Early America; andthe Peterson Reference Guide to Owls. Listen to Weidensaul's latest interview on NPR's "Fresh Air." (And here is a previous "Fresh Air" appearance with Terry Gross.) Weidensaul lectures widely on wildlife and environmental topics, and is an active field researcher, specializing in the study of migration in owls, hummingbirds and passerines.  A native of the Appalachians of eastern Pennsylvania, he now lives in New Hampshire. Scott Weidensaul leads tours to such exotic destinations as Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Alaska, the Amazon and other exciting locales - check out the details here. Summary of the episode 3:00 Migrating after dark.  Look up at the night sky for “literally billions of birds aloft in the night sky.” 8:00 Yellow Sea’s mudflats.  In China.  How central it is in migration. 13:00 How shorebirds make epic migrations.  About the bar-tailed godwit that spends 11 days in continuous powered flight, crossing the widest part of the Pacific Ocean-- 11,000 kilometres in one great leap. 14:00 Hyperphagia.  Binge feeding.  What these birds do before migration? They fly to the moon and back.   16:00 How migration and breeding change the body organs of the birds.   17:00 Scott imitates the song of the arctic song of the redknot. 19:00 About arctic terns, about the size of a dove flies 47,000 miles a year.  Oh wait, it is 57,000 miles a year.   22:00 Scott reads a section from his book. 26:00 The specific things birds change about themselves.  They change speed, endurance, memory, blood chemistry, metabolism, and much more. “Comparing a bird to a human athelete insults the bird.” 27:30 A little semipalmated sandpiper, weighing 50 gms.  Take off from the Northeastern coast of North America and fly to the Northeastern coast of South America with no food, water or rest.  That’s like running 126 marathons continuously. 30:00 European swifts and how they sleep.  Uni-hemisphere sleeping.  They sleep with one part of their brain for a few seconds a day.  About owls. 32:00 Bar-headed geese and their one long nonstop flight.  Climbing from 3200-feet an hour to 7200-feet an hour.   38:00 Conservation efforts to help bird migration. 42:00 About Amur Falcons in Nagaland 44:00 About Snowy owls and owls in general.  Nest boxes in Israel. 50:00 Regional wintering areas. The connections between forests and the Swainson’s Thrush.   52:00 Migratory connectivity. 54:00 Final words.  Birds fan out from Alaska to cover three-quarters of the earth’s surface.

Migratory birds undertake some of the most extraordinary and exhausting undertaking of any living things on the planet, an endurance test made all the more difficult by climate change, habitat loss, and illegal hunting. Few know this better than Scott Weidensaul, a bird researcher, prolific nature writer, and the author of more than 30 books, mostly about birds. He first tackled bird migration with 2000’s Living on the Wind. He comes back to the topic with a new book A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, out this month. He joins Nate Swick to talk about the new book and the the limits of bird migration.  ABA members are eligible for a 15% discount to Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Birds of the World subscription. Log into your ABA account to get the code. Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Play, and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it!

Author and bird researcher Scott Weidensaul shares amazing stories of the billions of migratory birds that journey over our heads every year, how they manage their feats physically, and how they're threatened by economic development and climate change. His new book is 'A World on the Wing.'Ken Tucker reviews the first full-length solo album from gospel singer Elizabeth King.Also, we hear from Misha Green, the creator of the HBO series 'Lovecraft Country,' which takes the real horrors of the Black experience in the 1950s and adds to it the supernatural terrors of the horror genre.

Author and bird researcher Scott Weidensaul shares amazing stories of the billions of migratory birds that journey over our heads every year, how they manage their feats physically, and how they're threatened by economic development and climate change. His new book is 'A World on the Wing.'Ken Tucker reviews the first full-length solo album from gospel singer Elizabeth King.Also, we hear from Misha Green, the creator of the HBO series 'Lovecraft Country,' which takes the real horrors of the Black experience in the 1950s and adds to it the supernatural terrors of the horror genre.

We always hear how climate change impacts birds, but what does it feel like to *be* a bird living through this unfathomable change? Producer, songwriter, and filmmaker Ryan Moritz set out to answer this question. He’s spent the last five years filming, recording, and editing a work of art to help humans see today’s world through the eyes of birds. The final result was "Important Bird Opera": a migratory journey exploring "how climate change and other anthropocentric activities have altered the natural world."In this exclusive interview, Ryan takes you behind-the-scenes of “Important Bird Opera.” Hear about his travels to film birds in Important Bird Areas, how he collaborated with poet Anjuli Raza Kolb for the opera’s libretto, and the personal birding experiences that inspired this one-of-a-kind work of art. Ryan’s “Important Bird Opera” premiered on New York City’s Governors Island in the summer of 2019 at the end of his artist-in-residency program with the NYC Audubon Society. Climate change is scary stuff, but Ryan’s work gives us hope—for the planet and for birds everywhere. BIRD SHIT WE DISCUSSEDUSEFUL RESOURCESWatch “Important Bird Opera” by Ryan Moritz!The Leslie Science and Nature Center in Ann Arbor…check it out!Scott Weidensaul’s “Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds” >> A book about bird migration that inspired Ryan’s “Important Bird Opera”Farid ud-din Attar’s poem, “The Conference of The Birds,” which inspired Kola’s poem “Unflocked Heart” (the libretto for “Important Bird Opera”)In NYC? Check out Governors Island!BIRDS WE MENTION (in order)Great Horned OwlBald EagleWild TurkeyTurkey VultureSteller’s JayCommon RavenLaysan AlbatrossSandhill CraneAmerican RobinEurasian HoopoeYellow-Crowned Night-HeronSupport the show (https://www.bonfire.com/talk-birdy-to-me-bird-shit-podcast/)

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, will be away from the BWD home nest for a while. We hope soon to resume new episodes of the podcast we all know and love, but in the interim, we're taking a trip down memory lane and replaying some of the most popular episodes. In this episode from December 2017, owl expert Scott Weidensaul joins Bill for a discussion of the winter's invasion of snowy owls from the Arctic. Through Project SNOWstorm (co-founded by Scott), a volunteer field research program studying these magnificent, mostly white owls, we are learning a great deal about their behavior, population dynamics, natural history, and how they interact with us humans, and vice versa. Scott also shares his tips for watching a snowy owl respectfully, without disturbing it.

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, will be away from the BWD home nest for a while. We hope soon to resume new episodes of the podcast we all know and love, but in the interim, we're taking a trip down memory lane and replaying some of the most popular episodes. In this episode from December 2017, owl expert Scott Weidensaul joins Bill for a discussion of the winter's invasion of snowy owls from the Arctic. Through Project SNOWstorm (co-founded by Scott), a volunteer field research program studying these magnificent, mostly white owls, we are learning a great deal about their behavior, population dynamics, natural history, and how they interact with us humans, and vice versa. Scott also shares his tips for watching a snowy owl respectfully, without disturbing it.

Join ornithologist Scott Weidensaul and me for a wide ranging discussion of bird migration in episode #44. Scott has an amazing fund of knowledge regarding bird migration and has literally written the book on it called "Living On The Wind". We discuss the changes in technology and the new information this has provided since "Living On The Wind" was published. There's more discussion about the good news and bad news for migratory birds as well. Please join us for a fascinating discussion of bird migration. Books: Living On The Wind https://amzn.to/2ogFSfK Peterson Owls https://amzn.to/2wjt6S9  Other Books by Scott: https://amzn.to/2wiIHkz  Websites: Scott's website:  http://www.scottweidensaul.com/ Project SNOWstorm:   https://www.projectsnowstorm.org/ Project Owlnet:  http://www.projectowlnet.org/

Scott Weidensaul, Author and Naturalist stops by to talk with BirdCallsRadio™ about his life-long work and projects on conservation and the natural world.

Owl expert Scott Weidensaul joins Bill for a discussion of this winter's invasion of snowy owls from the Arctic. Through Project SNOWstorm (co-founded by Scott), a volunteer field research program studying these magnificent, mostly white owls, we are learning a great deal about their behavior, population dynamics, natural history, and how they interact with us humans, and vice versa. Scott also shares his tips for watching a snowy owl respectfully, without disturbing it.

Owl expert Scott Weidensaul joins Bill for a discussion of this winter's invasion of snowy owls from the Arctic. Through Project SNOWstorm (co-founded by Scott), a volunteer field research program studying these magnificent, mostly white owls, we are learning a great deal about their behavior, population dynamics, natural history, and how they interact with us humans, and vice versa. Scott also shares his tips for watching a snowy owl respectfully, without disturbing it.

David Brinker is a wildlife ecologist for the State of Maryland and in his spare time is co-founder and co-director of Project SNOWstorm along with Scott Weidensaul. With a staff of 40 some volunteers they capture, study and apply cell phone based transmitters to Snowy Owls along the East Coast and in the Midwest. Financed entirely by donations they have acquired incredible research data on the winter migratory patterns of the owls. The project also supports veterinarians who perform necropsies, biologic and toxicologic studies on dead owls. Thee data collected by the project has provided new and exciting information about Snowy Owls. To see a video of a Snowy Owl named Baltimore, click below: https://youtu.be/HXwrB216bgE To learn more about Snowy Owls and to support Project SNOWstorm go to their website at: https://www.projectsnowstorm.org  Thanks for listening! These podcasts are published on the 15th and 30th of each month except February of course. To keep up with my photo journey and the happenings at Flanagan Fotos go to our website and subscribe at www.flanaganfotos.com   Kirby kirby@flanaganfotos.com   

This extraordinary New Zealand migratory bird flies each autumn just before the cold and dark of winter all the way from NZ in the Southern hemisphere up via China and Korea to the Alaskan warmth and light of spring and the coming summer in the Northern hemisphere.However, after laying their eggs and bringing up their young, the godwits then fly nonstop back around the curve of our planet - to NZ … a distance of 11,500 kilometers – without stopping, and for the ‘new born’s’ this is an astonishingly long distance voyage … and to an unknown destination too.Now …. Imagine you are up in Alaska and autumn foreshadows the coming cold and darkness of winter and the godwits along the shorelines prepare for their epic journey south as they sense the prevailing winds and conditions and ready themselves for take off.Finally lifting off to fly continuously hour after hour, the sun overhead will appear to track from east to west and after 12 or so hours the sun will set and darkness sets in - yet flying all night, up to an altitude of 2 or 3 kilometers above the earths surface, with starlight above them and the planet still turning on its axis, they will witness the sun rising in the east the next morning as they continue there arduous journey.And with our planet still turning they will persist all day, all night flying without sleep or rest in a southerly direction – across the expansive Pacific ocean - continuously for another 6 days and nights ...To finally swoop down into Miranda on the Firth of Thames in NZ, and safely land.Having traversed 11,500 kilometes.What an enormous ‘flight of passage!’ How can the godwit, a very small bird with a frail appearance accomplish such a gigantic feat and every time find its way 'home'?When we look at the human species and look at our capabilities …If a bird brain can find its way home, how come the human species has not realized that it’s 'our planet' that is our collective home, and the urgent need to take care of it, for as you may very well know, birds do not soil their own nest, so how come the human species manages to accomplish this act without even thinking?This 52 minute interview covers some of the mysterious elements of physiology, such as the godwits ability to reshuffle proteins in their bodies before they set out flying and that this allows them to reduce the size of their food-processing organs.Navigation; How do they know where to go and what time to fly? Introducing Rupert Sheldrake's ideas on 'morphic resonance' and other phenomenon beyond the visible.Loss of habitat and decline of population and Fukushima radiation, and could Godwits be the 'Canary in the Nuclear coal mine?References:Godwits - Long Haul Champions by Keith Woodley  from Penguin Books.The Ornithological Society of New Zealand:http://www.osnz.org.nzhttp://www.nzbirds.com/birds/kuaka.htmlhttp://www.sheldrake.org/Resources/faq/answers.htmlBird Migration is the one truly unifying natural phenomenon in the world, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems, which roar out of the poles, but fizzle at the equator, fail to do. It is an enormously complex subject, perhaps the most compelling drama in all natural history. ~  Scott Weidensaul.

Bill Thompson, III, interviews Scott Weidensaul.

Author and naturalist Scott Weidensaul reads an excerpt from his book, “Return to Wild America.”