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By carrying more people in a single vehicle, mass transit can use less energy than cars. Taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions can help t...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Black-crowned Night-Herons feed primarily on fish, but they will consume everything from earthworms to clams to eggs of nesting birds and refuse at...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Shorebirds' lives take them to many places other than the shore. Most of the shorebirds we see along our coasts migrate to the Arctic in summer. He...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The rainforests of Eastern and Northeastern Australia harbor many species of birds found almost nowhere else. This Eastern Whipbird — which is more...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Over the last few years, writer Emily Raboteau has been going out and photographing a series of bird murals found throughout New York City commissi...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In Texas, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, people have reported seeing Northern Cardinals that are red on one side and brown on the other, indicating t...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Ornithologist J. Drew Lanham’s favorite bird is “the one with feathers.” But here, he shares a few species that have been especially on his mind la...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Feathers are amazing structures. But after about a year, constant use and exposure to the elements mean they have to be replaced. So how do you rep...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Today kicks off Coral Reef Awareness Week. Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity, but they’re threatened by warming ocean temperatures, pollutio...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
This American Kestrel evolved to nest in tree cavities or small caves in cliffs. We humans have made life difficult for kestrels. Development has s...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
A movie runs at 24 frames per second, just right for humans to sense as normal speed. Pigeons process the visual world several times faster. The fr...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Many people would tell you that hearing birdsong puts them in a good mood. Recently, scientists have tried to put numbers to this effect that many ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Many woodpeckers chisel out deep cavities in tree trunks in order to lay their eggs and raise their brood. The cavities hollowed out by the birds v...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Language from inside a monastery. A Benedictine monk in the Episcopal Church shares terms from his world: For example, corporate prayer refers to p...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KTXK, WSLR, WPCA-LP, RADIOLEX and more
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 16
Amid discussion of renaming birds that are named after people, ornithologist J. Drew Lanham forms a “committee of one” to choose his own names for ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Eagle Cliff in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch State Park is an important nesting site for Peregrine Falcons. Each year, popular climbing routes in...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Researchers studying birds called Japanese Tits, relatives of the chickadees and titmice in North America, noticed that mates raising chicks togeth...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The spider’s web is an intricate piece of precision engineering. Made from large proteins, it’s sticky, stretchy, and tough. So it’s no surprise th...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Male Great Egrets have special long feather plumes called aigrettes, which they use in courtship displays in the spring. These beautiful big birds ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Artist David Shepard designs aloha shirts with illustrations of Hawai‘i's native flora and fauna. David actually trained as a botanist, and one of ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Tiny Marsh Wrens live in wetlands, usually within cattails, reeds, or bulrushes. After choosing his territory, the male weaves up to 15 dome-shaped...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, J. Drew Lanham shares how his grandmother’s personal names for the birds helped shape his own relationships with birds. Names such...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As singers go, American Robins are exceptional. They’re often the first birds to sing in the morning, and the last you’ll hear in the evening. Whil...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
If you’re new to birding, you might be baffled by names like Couch’s Kingbird, Wilson’s Warbler, and Townsend’s Solitaire. These birds were named i...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The American Music Fairness Act sound great but it is a money grab to pay musicians more money because the streaming services will not. The proble...
Bought by KTRL, KHNS, KWIT, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KRZA and more
- Added: Jun 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
