A World on the Wing

York County Audubon hosts famed birder and author Scott Weidensaul, who will present a program on bird migration. This program will be presented via Zoom.

Every year, massive flocks of birds cross immense oceans, fly above the highest mountains, or remain in unbroken flight for months at a stretch. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that birds are capable of has exploded. What weve learned of these key migrationshow billions of birds circumnavigate the globe, flying tens of thousands of miles between hemispheres on an annual basisis nothing short of extraordinary.

In this program, based on his bestselling book of the same name, Scott Weidensaul will take you around the globewith researchers in the lab probing the limits of what migrating birds can do, to the shores of the Yellow Sea in China, 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 are battling bird poachersto learn how people are fighting to understand and save the worlds great bird migrations.

Scott Weidensaul is the author of nearly 30 books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Living on the Wind and his latest, the New York Times bestseller A World on the Wing. Weidensaul is a contributing editor for Audubon and writes for a variety of other publications.