Birds That Are Making A Comeback With Scott Weidensaul
04 June 2026

Birds That Are Making A Comeback With Scott Weidensaul

BIRD HUGGER

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Join us today as we speak with celebrated author and ornithologist Scott Weidensaul about the many success stories regarding bird conservation and about his brand-new book, The Return of the Oystercatcher: Saving Birds To Save The Planet. Weidensaul, the New York Times bestselling author of A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds, has despaired over the numbers and reckoned with the loss of so much beauty and majesty in the natural world.
(W. W. Norton & Company; April 21, 2026; $32.99, Hardcover). His new book chronicles the prodigious, life-affirming efforts of scientists, conservationists, and Indigenous peoples to shelter, heal, and foster bird populations across the globe. Join Catherine Greenleaf, a certified wildlife rehabilitator with 25 years of experience rescuing and rehabilitating injured wildlife, for twice-monthly discussions about restoring native habitat and helping the birds in your backyard. Send your questions about birds and native gardening to birdhuggerpodcast@gmail.com. (PG-13) St. Dymphna Press, LLC.