Episode 41: Mindful Birding with Diego Calderon-Franco: Birds as Connectors

mindfulbirdingnetwork@gmail.com In this episode of the Mindful Birding Podcast, we spend time with Diego Calderón-Franco, a well-known Colombian bird guide whose remarkable story was recently featured on 60 Minutes with Anderson Cooper. After surviving a harrowing kidnapping and being held hostage, Diego turned to birds as a source of strength and healing. But his story reaches beyond his own resilience—it is also one of grace, reconciliation, and the unexpected ways birds can bring people t...