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Caption: Davina of Davina and the Vagabonds, Credit: Davina
Davina and the Vagabonds has a new CD and LP called Shoot for the Moon. The group displays a big stylistic footprint on the new recording. The sing...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Davina of Davina and the Vagabonds, Credit: Davina
Davina and the Vagabonds has a new CD and LP called Shoot for the Moon. The group highlights songs from the recording at its 7pm May 31show at the ...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 08:00
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Get away from the urban jungle for a while with a mood-enhancing virtual visit to the Farmer’s Market.

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Get away from the urban jungle for a while with a mood-enhancing virtual visit to the Farmer’s Market.

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on CHICAGO JAZZ LIVE we welcome noted Polish vocalist and composer Grazyna Auguscik with a stellar group, celebrating Grazyna’s newest re...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 57:01
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He was one of the pioneers of film music, with 12 Academy Award nominations and two wins. His scores for Bride of Frankenstein, Rebecca, The Philad...

  • Added: May 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Eureka Strings
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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