Scott Weidensaul
Scott Weidensaul (born 1959) is a Pennsylvania-based naturalist and author. He was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for his book "Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds". Profile and works. In 2000, Weidensaul was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the general nonfiction category for his book "Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds". In another of his works, "Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians", Weidensaul covers the geological changes that have happened to the Appalachians. He traces the mountains' geological  origins from the Ice Ages through the diversity and richness of pre-Columbian and Colonial days on up to the modern era. For his Pulitzer-finalist book "Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds", the author took to longtime systematic observation, which included the ornithological technique of banding, and observing the birds, besides the author talked to various experts—as well as amateur birders and ornithologists who have made many of the important discoveries about bird biology. Weidensaul has been a nature columnist for newspapers, including the "Philadelphia Inquirer" and he has written more than two dozen  books on natural history, including "Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds". Weidensaul's writing has appeared in publications including "Smithsonian", the "New York Times", "Nature Conservancy", "Pennsylvania Game News", "National Wildlife" and "Audubon". In addition to writing about wildlife, Weidensaul is an active field researcher whose work focuses on bird migration. Weidensaul coordinates the banding and research program at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg, Pennsylvania, overseeing three saw-whet owl sites in eastern and central Pennsylvania, which have been operating since 1997 called Project Owlnet. He is also a team member  of Project SNOWstorm, a project that began in 2013 to study the ecology of wintering snowy owls. As a federally licensed hummingbird bander, Weidnesaul also bands vagrant western hummingbirds that migrate east.