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A special road trip episode. OHR visits Rogers, Arkansas’ Railyard Live Concert Series featuring Eureka Springs folk orchestra, Eureka Strings, re...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 58:59
On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a girl with a gift in her ongoing battle against the man who killed her parents in Mind Games by No...
- Added: May 21, 2024
- Length: 03:00
This week, we’re diving into the foods of summer.
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: :00
After young birds have left the nest and can fly short distances, they still follow their parents and beg for food. They squawk and assume a beggin...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Evolution on islands can produce unusually large species. Haast’s Eagle lived on the islands now known as New Zealand. With a wingspan of 9 feet an...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Raising baby birds is a lot of work. You might think that after seeing off their fledged young ones, bird parents would call it a day. But a surpri...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In grasslands of the central U.S., birds called Dickcissels sing a quirky song that “spells out” the syllables of their name. Dickcissels are appro...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
There’s no wrong place to search for birds — looking out the window and listening for calls and songs is a great place to start. But you might be c...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
At midday, it might seem like the birds that were so active in the morning have gone silent, maybe even vanished. But cormorants rally in the after...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
It's dawn in a western marsh in mid-summer, and man! Those birds are singin'! The males of more than a dozen species are staking out their territor...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Brown Pelicans are a regular sight today along the Gulf of Mexico and our southern coastlines. But these birds have not always been so plentiful. T...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In summer, the forests of the eastern United States are home to a bounty of birds, including this gorgeous Scarlet Tanager, which spends most of th...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Just because a young bird appears to be alone – whether on the ground or squawking loudly from a bush or tree – doesn't necessarily mean it is sick...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
If you had to pick the bird most like a superhero, the Bobolink might not be an obvious choice. But these quirky blackbirds have abilities that wou...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Eleven-year-old Zjencès Bell took an early interest in birds after he learned his first bird call. And as a piano student, Zjencès soon blended his...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The crocodilians — crocodiles and their relatives, like the American Alligator — are the closest living relatives of birds. About 250 million years...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
A male American Golden-Plover proclaims its nesting territory with an aerial display known as the "butterfly flight." After flying up 50 feet, the ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Author Nick Belardes was walking at a park near his home in San Luis Obispo, California, when he saw a man who seemed in tune with birds. Belardes ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Northern Hawk Owl is one of the least studied and least known of all birds in North America. Northern Hawk Owls are owls, but they share severa...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Baltimore Oriole is a standout bird. With adult males’ electric orange and jet black feathers, and females and immature birds in various shades...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
After a Northern Flicker carves out a nest cavity, chances are the birds will use the cavity for just one nesting season. But the cavity may have a...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and by Birds Canada, volunteers for Project NestWatch observe local nesting birds and track whether the...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Some gulls and terns may show a glowing pink color, similar to that of flamingos and spoonbills. This pink color comes from pigments in the birds' ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
An evening baseball game isn’t the only thing illuminated by the bright stadium lights. High in the air, countless flying insects are drawn to them...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Resident Cooper’s Hawks that nest in the urban areas of Albuquerque, New Mexico, are thriving as the populations of doves, their prey, have explode...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
