Katie Fallon will be next guest on Bird Calls Radio

Katie Fallon, author of “Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird,” will be the next guest on BirdCallsRadio. Cerulean Blues (Ruka Press, 2011) is a personal account by Fallon about the plight of the cerulean warbler, a beautiful, but fast-declining songbird. In fact, there are 80 percent fewer cerulean warblers today than there were since the 1960s.

Tune in to Bird Calls as Fallon discusses why the cerulean is disappearing; and tackles issues such as deforestation, coffee plantations, and mountaintop removal coal mining in the Appalachian mountains.

In Cerulean Blues, Fallons explains how the fate of the tiny bird is linked to our lives as humans. As Ruka Press cites: “Cerulean Blues will appeal to nature lovers, bird watchers, actual and armchair adventurers, and anyone interested in the health and future of our planet.”

The book was named a finalist for the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment.

Pete Dunne, well-known nature writer and former guest on BirdCallsRadio, had this to say about Cerulean Blues: “Told here is the story of a woman who could and a small, blue, bellwether bird that increasingly cannot maintain itself in this world of our making. Cerulean Blues is part journey, part documentary, and wholly engaging.”

Fallon also teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech and West Virginia University.

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