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With their bare heads, long legs and massive bills, Wood Storks seem to have flown out of a fairytale — but in the American South they’re a real-li...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Mallards are found virtually everywhere there is open water, from city parks and subalpine lakes to sheltered bays and estuaries along the coasts. ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When Janet Ng was a kid, there was a very specific moment when she realized what she wanted to be as a grown-up: seeing a wildlife biologist being ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Geese migrate north between February and April, making stopovers along the way to rest and eat. Most are bound for their breeding grounds in the fa...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
For years, scientists debated whether the first flying dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, began by running and making little hops off the gr...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When buying seed for your feeders, it’s tempting to get the biggest, cheapest bag. But not all bird seed is the same. Figure out the nutritional va...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
By March in the East, cardinals and other songbirds that don't migrate are already singing heartily to attract mates. Many other birds - including ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The strange wading birds known as jacanas are nick-named "lily-trotters" for their ability to walk on lilypads. In Jamaica, they're known as "Jesus...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Birds have lost many habitats they’ve called home for millions of years, but people can help create bird habitats wherever they live. It all begins...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Reddish Egret, a particularly glamorous heron, is best known for its startling antics in capturing fish. When fishing, the egret sprints across...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When you go birding, sometimes you’re in the right place at the right time and there are more species than you can count. Other times, not so lucky...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
For 20,000 years, spring rains and melting snow have filled the playas of the Rainwater Basin of south-central Nebraska. As winter ends, ten millio...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Sandgrouse live in some of the most parched environments on earth. To satisfy the thirst of their chicks, male sandgrouse carry water back to the n...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The harsh caws of American Crows are one of the most familiar bird calls in North America. Fish Crows sometimes join flocks of American Crows as th...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, we meet Aviary: the superhero alter-ego of a mild-mannered birder bitten by a radioactive feather mite. Aviary became able to shap...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Most swallow species that nest in North America eat almost nothing except flying insects. When the bugs die off in the fall, the swallows head sout...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
John Zaktansky leads the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association, which is using recording devices to ID birds by sound on different parts of th...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When Great Horned Owl eggs hatch, the downy owlets are the size of newborn chickens. Their mother broods them day and night. A few weeks later, the...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Before chimneys existed, Chimney Swifts relied on old hollow trees for nesting and roosting. They can’t perch, they can only cling to a rough verti...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Does the image of a frozen birdbath bring to mind a small yellow bird with ice skates? Birds need water in all seasons, for drinking and for bathin...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Before we see or feel spring, we often hear it first — in the testimony of a Red-winged Blackbird, the energy of a Song Sparrow, or the serenade of...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
For years, nature recordist Lang Elliott came up with clever ways to hear high-pitched bird songs despite his high-frequency hearing loss. Lang tea...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
With a graceful leap, wings outstretched, Sandhill Cranes welcome the longer days. The stately cranes are courting, renewing an annual dance they p...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
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Dr. Clinton Francis is a sensory ecologist who studies how noise pollution affects birds, like this Black-headed Grosbeak. He says sounds from mach...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
When Day Scott teaches people how to take pictures of birds, she emphasizes observing birds carefully before picking up the camera. Sometimes that ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
