The Return of the Oystercatcher Saving Birds to Save the Planet

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Across the world, scientists, conservationists and ordinary people are involved in groundbreaking work to restore billions of lost birds. Together they’re tackling the hollowing out of the springtime dawn chorus and the withering away of once-great migration multitudes. From a tiny island off the coast of Maine to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to a hereditary estate in England, the deep Carpathian Mountains in Romania and a watery wilderness in Ukraine where air-raid sirens scream at night, birds’ fortunes are being reversed.

In The Return of the Oystercatcher, renowned natural history writer Scott Weidensaul tells the uplifting story of that success and what it means for us and for our planet, too. Because a world that works for birds, in all their complexity of movement and ecological need, will work for everything else. Including people.

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Biography

Scott Weidensaul is one of the most respected natural history writers in the world. Among the more than thirty books he's written are Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He is a contributing editor to Audubon Magazine, and a columnist for Bird Watcher's Digest. Weidensaul is an active field researcher specializing in bird migration. He is a co-director of Project Owlnet and directs Project SNOWstorm. He has been given numerous awards, including the Audubon Award for Environmental Writing, and was recently honored as a prestigious elective member of the American Ornithologists' Union. Weidensaul is a highly sought-after speaker at universities, museums and birding festivals. The Return of the Oystercatcher is his ninth book.