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The Return of the Oystercatcher

Saving Birds to Save the Planet

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The Return of the Oystercatcher

By: Scott Weidensaul
Narrated by: Nick Landrum
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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, and from a hereditary estate in England to a watery wilderness in Romania where Ukrainian 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.

©2026 Scott Weidensaul (P)2026 Bolinda Publishing
Animals Biological Sciences Ecology Ecosystems & Habitats Endangered Species Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Feel-Good Solar System
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