Scott Weidensaul

Plymouth, MA
Elected 2020. First term ends 2024.

Scott has authored more than 30 books including his widely acclaimed Living on the Wind, which was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and his latest A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, a New York Times bestseller.

A naturalist history expert, he lectures widely on conservation and Nature, and directs ornithological programs for National Audubon's famed Hog Island Center on the coast of Maine. In addition to writing about wildlife, Weidensaul is an active field researcher whose work focuses on bird migration. He is a co-director of Project Owlnet, co-founder of Project SNOWstorm, a founder of the Critical Connections project, co-founder of the Northeast Motus Collaboration, and one of fewer than 200 licensed hummingbird banders in the world.

Scott is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society and resides with his wife Amy in the northern Appalachians of New Hampshire.