Imagine having to travel all the way from Siberia to the outlying Taiwanese island of Kinmen every winter! It may sound like quite a distance, but for one species of migratory birds -- Great Cormorants -- it's an anual journey.

In "Home for the Winter," a radio play produced by RTI (which originally aired on March 7, 2014), you can follow the story of a Great Cormorant called Lucas, who travels with his family on this extraordinary adventure. 

The play is based on a picture storybook, also called "Home for the Winter", written and illustrated by Michael Thompson and William W. Bowles. It's part two in a three-part series called "Tales from an Outlying Island". All three plays in the series are based on storybooks written by a group of dedicated young Fulbright scholars based on the outlying Taiwanese island of Kinmen as part of the English Teaching Assistantship program in 2012-2013.

The authors worked with RTI's Andrew Ryan to convert the storybooks into radio plays, and in many cases they played the voices of the characters as well! Episode two features the voices of William W. Bowles and Katherine Curtiss as the narrators.

Be sure to tune in on March 14th for part three: "Where's My Candy?", the story of a Wind Lion God from Kinmen who is searching for his missing treats.