Migratory Birds Struggle and Adapt to a Challenging Future

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The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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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

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0:31.0	Lots of us don't know what we want to be when we grow up or didn't know.
0:36.9	It can take a while for some of us to ease into life's direction.
0:42.1	But naturalist and writer Scott Widensel, he seemed to have this internal compass that
0:47.8	guided him to his career early in life.
0:51.4	I've been interested in nature since I was a little kid and I got hooked on birds very
0:54.4	early.
0:55.4	I got hooked on bird migration on one particular day when I was 12 when my family and I visited
1:01.2	Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in eastern Pennsylvania on this high Appalachian ridge top, along which
1:06.6	every fall tens of thousands of hawks and eagles and falcons migrate.
1:14.9	The first day we went up there just happened to be one of the big migration days of the
1:18.4	year.
1:19.4	Cold front had come through the winds were blowing from the northwest.
1:24.2	There was this river of birds of prey flowing down along this long Appalachian ridge.
1:32.1	And in the 50 years and it was 50 years ago this past fall and 50 years since then, I went
1:38.3	from somebody who was an avid birder and kind of on the outside looking in in terms of
1:43.8	migration research to becoming more and more directly involved.
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