In this episode of OTWTB, host Dawn Hewitt interviews author, artist, and naturalist Julie Zickefoose. As a wildlife rehabilitator, Julie often takes in orphaned and injured birds to nurse back to health. One such charge was a sick and starved baby blue jay, a palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff that she named "Jemima." Julie fell hard for this engaging, feisty, and funny jay, a creative muse and source of strength through the author's own heartbreaking changes. She captures these experiences in her gorgeously illustrated new book, "Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay."

Episode 58: Julie Zickefoose and Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay

Join Wendy Clark, Dawn Hewitt, and Kelly Ball for their light-hearted and humorous podcast, Out There With the Birds, where they discuss the latest news, trends, and anecdotes about wild birds and the bird watchers who enjoy them. Listen in to find out just how wonderful and weird the world of birding can be when you're Out There With the Birds.

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Host Wendy Clark McGlynn interviews Lucy McRobert, an author, columnist, mother of three, and a wildlife storyteller based in the UK who works freelance for wildlife charities and businesses. Her first book, 365 Days Wild, offers 365 ways to make nature part of your life every day. In this episode, Wendy and Lucy discuss life during the pandemic, birding and conservation work in the UK, diversity in birding, and much more!

Episode 106: An Interview with Lucy McRobert

Liz Hackett works with Bush Heritage Australia, a conservation organization in Australia that mirrors the work of the Nature Conservancy in the US. She is an avid birder, has traveled the world extensively, and she and her late husband, Paul Hackett, owned and managed a bird-watching tour company in Melbourne before his sudden death in August 2019. Liz and BWD's Wendy Clark McGlynn enjoy a conversation about birds and birding in Australia, living down under during the pandemic, what it's really like to live in the city of Melbourne, and finding the strength to move on after sudden loss.

Episode 105: An Interview with Liz Hackett

What's Up at BWD? We're glad you asked! Join BWD publisher Wendy Clark and BWD editor Dawn Hewitt as they enjoy a candid discussion about what's happening at Bird Watcher's Digest in the fall of 2021. On the road together in Bossier City, Louisiana, Wendy and Dawn discuss the magazines, tours, and life as a birding company in a post-pandemic world.

Episode 104: What's Happening at BWD

Have you heard about the ReThink Birding and Travel Expo? This is a virtual global travel event tailor-made for the bird-watching industry that will take place online on February 11-13, 2022, hosted by ReThink Travel and Bird Watcher's Digest. Host Wendy Clark talks with famed birder James Currie and Green Team Global President Hugh Hough in today's episode of Out There with The Birds about what it's like to travel right now for bird watching, about changes in international and domestic birding travel in our post-pandemic world, and more!

Episode 103: The ReThink Birding Expo

In this episode of Out There with the Birds, Bird Watcher's Digest editor Dawn Hewitt interviews Katie Fallon. Katie is author of two acclaimed books, Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird; and Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird; and two acclaimed books for children. She's also writes for Bird Watcher's Digest, penning the WINGBEATS column in two issues each year. She is also a co-founder of the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia, a bird rehabilitation facility that takes in hundreds of ill or injured birds every year. In that capacity, she also cares for numerous non-releasable birds, including vultures, hawks, and even a peregrine falcon, which provide her with personal knowledge and insights most birders can't even imagine.

Episode 58: Julie Zickefoose and Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay

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