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For birds and other animals with good natural insulation, winter provides a striking benefit as they scavenge. Bacteria function very slowly or not...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
To out-sip their competition, Sword-billed Hummingbirds have a distinct adaptation: these birds’ beaks are longer than their bodies. Found in tempe...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Male birds are often the larger, flashier sex that courts choosy females, who in turn raise their chicks. But not always. Female phalaropes -- like...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Great Black-backed Gulls have a reputation as serious predators of other birds. During the nesting season, they’ll prey on eggs and nestlings of ot...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Here and there along winter shorelines, little flocks of pale, silvery shorebirds probe at the water's edge, keeping pace with each wave's ebb and ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Palmyra Atoll is a ring-shaped island encircling a lagoon in the South Pacific. The atoll lost many native trees due to U.S. military activity duri...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
After Christine Okon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2012, she found herself falling behind on birding walks when the group trudged across...
Bought by KBIA
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
The 22-inch Great Horned Owl has two tufts of feathers that stick up from the top of its head. This owl is difficult to see, but it's often heard d...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Kererū, green-blue pigeons native to New Zealand, like to sun themselves after dining on fruit. But in warm summer months, the bird’s sunbathing ha...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Nuthatches rank high on the list of favorite backyard birds. Compact and stub-tailed, they climb down tree trunks and along the underside of branch...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Gentoo Penguins live in the frigid waters of the Atlantic. Only recently have scientists begun to unravel why penguin feathers don’t freeze. An ele...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Driving down a country road in eastern Ontario, there’s a surprising sight by the roadside: dozens of vibrantly coloured, eclectic birdhouses sitti...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Holding on: Holland's farmers, California's salmon & Germany's Ahr valley
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and Radio Kansas
- Added: Nov 10, 2023
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
First broadcast in 1994, Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour radio program showcasing the best live recordings from acclaimed music acts and enter...
Bought by WXPR, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMSU, WDSE, WRFA-LP and more
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
What happens when a car racing fan and the host of Possibly try to find an event that appeals to both of them? Enter Formula E.
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 04:01
- Purchases: 1
Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...
Bought by Maine Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 11
Laughter can be good medicine, but when is it okay to laugh at something as deadly serious as the climate crisis? Jokes help us remember informatio...
- Added: Oct 26, 2023
- Length: 58:58
It’s a challenge for birds to sing through the loud hum of traffic. Many just belt it out, but not all birds. Great Tits, Song Sparrows and House F...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 01:45
A roosting owl often leaves visual clues to its whereabouts — a scattering of furry, oval objects below its perch — in the form of pellets. Because...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Like an expert angler, a tern can read the surface of the water to find where to catch its next fish. Scientists piloted a drone to track the fligh...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Puffins are icons of the seabird world. With clown-like faces and huge, multicolored bills, they stand upright on sea cliffs along the northern oce...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
This Band-tailed Pigeon may sound like an owl, but it's a case of mistaken identity. The song of the American Robin could be confused with that of ...
Bought by KBIA
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
When Juan Pablo Culasso spends time outside, he often encounters people thinking he doesn’t belong out there as a blind person – despite the fact t...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 01:45
