Scott Weidensaul coordinates the banding and research program at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art in Millersburg, PA, overseeing three saw-whet owl sites in eastern and central Pennsylvania, which have been operating since 1997.
Weidensaul is the author of more than two dozen books on natural history, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Living on the Wind, and the New York Times bestseller A World on the Wing. He writes for such publications as Audubon, BWD and Living Bird, and is involved in a variety of other migration research projects including Project SNOWstorm, which studies the movements of snowy owls. A native of Pennsylvania, he now lives in New Hampshire.