Laura Erickson, 2014 recipient of the American Birding Association’s Roger Tory Peterson Award and author of eight previous books about birds, has been a teacher, wildlife rehabilitator, public speaker, and science editor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. She is a contributing editor for BirdWatching magazine. Since 1986, she has been producing the “For the Birds” radio program that airs on many radio stations and is available as a podcast on iTunes. She lives in Duluth, Minnesota, with her husband and little birding dog Pip.