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Praise for A World on the Wing

"[A] gripping journey alongside the world's feathered wanderers and the people who study them. . . . Brims with spectacle. . . . As the birds flit through these pages, but with ever less frequency through our lives, we can only hope that birders and non-birders alike take inspiration and a call to action from A World on the Wing. This is the kind of book we've been waiting for."
--Christian Cooper, New York Times

"A World on the Wing is a paean to the beauty of data, viewed in masses, and to citizen science taking ornithology by storm. . . . Mr. Weidensaul offers the astonishment of birds' travels, deep concern for their populations and hope for their future in well-measured, beautifully realized doses."
--Julie Zickefoose, Wall Street Journal

"I'm not a birder, but Weidensaul persuades me that I could be, and that a greater appreciation of the movement and behaviour of migratory birds might bring me into closer contact with what it means to be a living thing on Earth. . . . [Weidensaul is] a master storyteller. . . . What emerges is an emphatic statement of confidence in nature's resilience--a vision of nature as a force that we and our science are irrefutably a part of."
--Ashish Ghadiali, The Guardian