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The apapane is a forest bird native to the Hawaiian islands. It is a member of the honeycreeper family and an important pollinator.
Bought by WNED Buffalo
- Added: Feb 08, 2023
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
This segment of Sound Ecology highlights the diverse songs and calls of the marsh wren in northern California. For air during spring and summer.
Bought by WNED Buffalo and Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 2
The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the United States Army that s...
Bought by KBEM, RadioStPete Florida, KETR-FM, and 90.5 WSNC
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 01:59
- Purchases: 4
He was one of the pioneers of jazz on the violin. Though largely self taught, his career lasted some 77 years, and he recorded hundred of albums. p...
- Added: Nov 21, 2011
- Length: 06:00
As a child in the 1930s, Irwin predicted he would travel to the moon ... at a time when anything written on the topic was clearly labeled "science ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 03:00
For more than fifty years ... an unbroken streak of more than 4500 games, Bob Sheppard was the voice of Yankee Stadium. As Reggie Jackson said, "t...
- Added: Jul 06, 2011
- Length: 03:00
Who was Sim Webb? Well, fifty-seven years earlier, April of 1900, he was the man who lived. It happened like this ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His was a life that nearly didn't happen. He fell under a boxcar, his left arm mangled as a child, yet went on to own and manage one of the greates...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 03:00
His father was the only one of Custer's men to survive at Little Big Horn and his mother was the daughter of a Sioux chief. Viggo Mortensen played ...
- Added: May 04, 2011
- Length: 03:00
For centuries, the kava plant has played an important role in many Pacific Island cultures, where it's valued for its natural calming effects. In ...
- Added: Oct 02, 2007
- Length: 08:06
An 'in dialect' and audio narrative of rural poems from the Annapolis Valley, in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Added: May 02, 2006
- Length: 02:36
Famed pipa virtuoso Wu Man in her own words and her music
- Added: Oct 03, 2003
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 7
