Wenfei Tong

I enjoy sharing my love of science and nature through my paintings, photography, teaching, and writing.

My two books, Bird Love and Understanding Bird Behavior/ How to Read A Bird, use scientific discoveries to show how much humans and birds share, including some of art and literature’s most basic themes. My ultimate aim is to inspire as many people as possible to relate to and thus care for the natural world.

Birdwatching offered me an early and very personal connection with urban nature as a child in Singapore, and I have been a keen supporter of grassroots conservation ever since. My time as an undergraduate at Princeton and Oxford was where I first got hooked on field biology and the history and philosophy of science and the environment. I am currently a research associate at Harvard, where I got my PhD in evolutionary biology. Whether it has been studying zebras in Kenya, catching mice in Bulgaria, or observing birds in the grasslands of Zambia and Montana, I owe a deep debt of gratitude to the natural world. My hope is to share some of these wonders with others.

I enjoy teaching university students in Montana and Alaska, fundraising for conservation organisations, and guiding natural history tours in Tanzania, Central Asia, the Galapagos, and Montana, where I take visitors birding on horseback.

https://www.wenfeitong.com/

Some book talks and interviews:

https://townhallseattle.org/event/wenfei-tong-livestream/

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1297489590599156

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/author-talk-with-wenfei

https://newbooksnetwork.com/wenfei-tong-bird-love-the-family-life-of-birds-princeton-up-2020/

https://birdcallsradio.com/bcr-197-wenfei-tong-ph-d-bird-love/