New Hampshire
Audubon Seacoast Chapter
Wednesday
December 8, 2021 7:30 pm Eastern Time (US and Canada) Zoom Program: A World on
the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
Note: This is a reschedule of the June 2021 Program.
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-with researchers in the lab probing the limits of what
migrating birds can do, to the shores of the Yellow Sea in China, to the remote
mountains of northeastern India where tribal villages saved the greatest
gathering of falcons on the planet, and the Mediterranean where activists and
police battle bird poachers-to learn how people are fighting to understand and
save the world's great bird migrations.
Bio: Scott Weidensaul is the author of more
than two dozen books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist
"Living on the Wind," "Return to Wild America" and
"The First Frontier." His newest book, "A World on the
Wing" about global migration, will be released in March 2021. Weidensaul
is a contributing editor for National Audubon, a columnist for Bird Watcher's
Digest and writes for a variety of other publications, including Cornell Lab of
Ornithology's Living Bird. He is also an active field researcher, studying
Northern Saw-whet Owl migration for more than two decades, as well as winter
hummingbirds, bird migration in Alaska, and the winter movements of Snowy Owls
through Project SNOWstorm, which he co-founded.
All are welcome to attend our Wednesday
December 8, 2021 program via Zoom. The Zoom program Meeting begins at 7:30 PM,
but feel free to sign on early after 7 pm to socialize. You may need to
download Zoom
(
https://zoom.us/download)
to attend the program.
Please register in advance for this
meeting. You can register right up
through the start time:
After registering, you will receive a
confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The Seacoast
Chapter of NH Audubon thanks AARP New Hampshire for their sponsorship.
Al Stewart, Jr.