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Scott Weidensaul
Natural History Writer/ Bird Bander
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you've seen it all? Travel on a wild ride with Scott Weidensaul for
a day, and you'll see natural beauties, up close, like you've never
seen before! Scott has a passion for studying and protecting all birds
and has found that this passion can help protect them from harm while
educating others at the same time. Scott is a bird bander. Which means
that he temporarily catches birds in order to place a small metal
numbered band around their leg so that they may be identified in the
future. The whole routine takes only a few minutes out of the bird's
day, and causes no imposition to it in the future. The practice of
bird banding is done for many reasons, but the main focus is to get
a glimpse into the health, habits, and lives of birds so that we can
learn from them to see how their populations are coping with environmental
changes and human impacts. Scott shows us up close how measurements
and weights are recorded to create a record of each bird he bands
so that if it is re-caught by himself, or a bander in the U.S. or
another country, or if the bird is found dead, that the bander can
know a history of where the bird was first banded and what may have
happened to it. This journey has taken Scott around the globe, but
Pennsylvania remains his first love for its rolling green mountains
and the abundant bird species.
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