The Remarkable Feat of Bird Migration in an Era of Climate Change | Scott Weidensaul | TEDxMarin

In this talk, Scott Weidensaul explores the immense challenges birds face as global migration patterns meet an era of rapid climate change - and what we can do to help. Scott, a world-renowned ornithologist, and active field researcher has spent some 40 years observing and advocating for the protection of birds. More info http://www.scottweidensaul.com Scott, a world-renowned ornithologist and active field researcher, has spent some 40 years observing and advocating for the protection of birds. His writing career began in 1978 with a weekly natural history column in the local newspaper, the Pottsville Republican in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, where he grew up. In later years he wrote long-running columns for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Harrisburg Patriot-News.
Weidensaul has written more than 30 books, including his widely acclaimed Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds (North Point 1999), which was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. His newest book, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (W.W. Norton, U.S.; Picador, U.K.) is a New York Times bestseller.
Weidensaul's writing has appeared in dozens of publications, including Audubon, Living Bird, Bird Watcher's Digest and National Wildlife, among many others. He lectures widely on conservation and nature, and directs ornithological programs for National Audubon's famed Hog Island Center on the coast of Maine.
He is a co-director of Project Owlnet, a collaborative effort among 125 banding and research stations across North America studying owl migration, and for more than 25 years he has directed a major effort to study the movements of northern saw-whet owls, one of the smallest and least-understood raptors in North America.
Weidensaul co-founded Project SNOWstorm, which uses cutting-edge tracking technology to study snowy owls, and is a founder of the Critical Connections project, which is tracking the migration of birds that breed on National Park lands in Alaska. 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. He co-founded the Northeast Motus Collaboration, which is creating a network of nearly 150 automated telemetry receivers across the mid-Atlantic region and New England to track the movements of bats, insects and small birds.
Scott Weidensaul is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society. He and his wife Amy now live in the northern Appalachians of New Hampshire. More info http://www.scottweidensaul.com This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx