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July 23rd, 2019
Sound recordist Gordon Hempton thinks our thoughts and our actions echo the place we’re in. So if we’re in a noisy city, we’ll be noisy ourselves. ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
By August, most birds in North America have finished nesting, bringing billions of new birds into the world. So many birds. It might make you wonde...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Out in the arid West, miles north of Winnemucca, a small caravan of birdwatchers searches for raptors along a distant ridgeline of basalt and sage....
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Band-tailed Pigeons are found mostly in low-altitude forests. Though about the size of city pigeons, they can be shy and sometimes hard to see. Str...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
David Sibley, creator and illustrator of The Sibley Guide to Birds, offers this advice for learning to identify birds such as this Warbling Vireo: ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
At a glance, swallows and swifts, both graceful fliers, look much alike. But swifts — like this Chimney Swift — have longer, slimmer wings and shor...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Woodpeckers, as a group, eat far more ants than most other birds do. Many other vertebrates tend to avoid ants because of their stings or because o...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Over the course of John James Audubon’s life, even in the 1800s, he noticed how quickly people were changing the wilderness. Today, hundreds of loc...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Visit a completely undisturbed ecosystem, where all the creatures we hear are all native to the land, and have coexisted and continued to evolve to...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Where some noises — like TV, traffic and random conversations — can make it hard to concentrate, birdsong may make it easier. In Alder Hey Children...
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- Added: Jul 23, 2019
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Avalanches tend to follow historic channels down the face of a mountain, sweeping with them standing trees and boulders, while adjacent slopes rema...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Harpy Eagles spend their lives in tall, remote tropical forests in Central and South America, flying from tree to tree in search of food. The eagle...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
The natural world sends us messages if we’re open to receiving them. Ancient navigators put their trust in the birds’ amazing ability to find dry l...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
A crow named Betty learned how to take a straight piece of wire and bend one end into a hook. She then used the hooked end to haul a tiny bucket of...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
The Toco Toucan of South America has evolved to stay cool in the sweltering heat of the tropics. Relative to its body size, the Toco Toucan has the...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Since 1929, Michigan’s state bird has been the American Robin. But lots of people think it’s time for a change. The Black-capped Chickadee is a pop...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Close your eyes and let’s take a little trip today, from one landscape to another, discovering new birds calling in the wild. Particular birds are ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
This episode unpacks what it means to "bug out" with writer and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, grief expert and podcaster Nora McInerny, and com...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 58:59
With its awe-inspiring vistas and eons of geologic time on display, the Grand Canyon also offers a unique habitat for birds. What you're likely to ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 01:45
Episode 79791 of the Remix series.
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 59:00
