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Bluebirds can bring flashes of azure color and mellow songs to where you live. The best way to bring them close to home is with nest boxes. You’ll ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Most baby birds are adorable little floofs — but not all of them. The tongue and palate of estrildid finch chicks are strangely spotted and ringed....
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
In 2018, paleontologist Daniel Field took a closer look at specimens from an amateur fossil collector. His team used micro-CT scanning, kind of lik...
Bought by KBIA
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Any hobby or special interest has its own jargon. You’ll pick up on the silly slang that birders use as you go – like calling the Yellow-rumped War...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Great Horned Owls excel at nocturnal hunting, thanks to their acute senses and stealth — but their feet let them secure squirming prey. The outermo...
Bought by KBIA
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Razorbills, a cousin to the puffin, nest in colonies on cliffs. Before they lay eggs, Razorbills take part in two unique social behaviors. In one, ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Red-bellied Woodpeckers are bold, conspicuous, and vocal, thriving in rural and urban areas east of the Mississippi. Like most woodpeckers, Red-bel...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The group of birds called “songbirds” — the perching birds — is incredibly broad. Half the world’s 10,000 birds are in the songbird group, and thei...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Blackbird songs have a strange music. The Red-winged Blackbird can be heard in nearly every marsh on the continent — bold, brassy, and piercing. Th...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Whistling as they fly, Black-bellied Whistling-Ducks are gorgeous waterfowl with bright pink bills and legs, chestnut necks and backs, and black un...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
It's winter, and apples litter the ground. A few still hang, frozen and thawed again and again. Suddenly a flock of hundreds of birds rises from th...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The Tui is one of New Zealand’s most remarkable birds, intelligent and with iridescent feathers. Its down-curved beak fits perfectly into native fl...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
A bird with abnormal white feathers, like this American Robin, may have a genetic condition called leucism. Leucism prevents pigments from reaching...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The call of the Common Loon is a symbol of the far north. But the species once nested as far south as southern New England, Ohio, Iowa, and Califor...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Groove-billed Anis gather in loose groups. And with good reason. They nest communally. As many as four or five pairs of birds may use one nest, a b...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
In the 1990s, eagles in the Southeastern US began dying of a mysterious brain disease. Many years of research identified the culprit: a cyanobacter...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Birds’ four-chambered hearts run larger than those of mammals, relative to body size, and they are coupled with extremely efficient cardiovascular ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Gyrfalcons are the largest falcons in the world, with a wingspan of almost four feet and weighing almost five pounds. The name “Gyrfalcon” derives ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Collective nouns are a mixture of poetry, alliteration, and description. Victorians often made up creative names for groups of birds, as a parlor g...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The nuthatch’s beak is all business. Long, slender, sharp: it can pluck a tiny spider from a crevice in the bark or carve a nest hole right through...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Consider finding a local conservation group that’s doing work that matters to you — beach cleanups, volunteer bird surveys, keeping local parks bea...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Outdoor cats are one of the biggest threats to birds, killing over a billion a year in North America. And indoor-outdoor cats live much shorter liv...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Birds that historically nested in the cavities of dead trees are finding natural nest holes harder to come by — but people can help. Many of these ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
eBird, a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, lets you log the bird species you observe on a smartphone app or on the web. Whether you’re goi...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
