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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...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
A single Canada Goose has between 20 and 25 thousand feathers. Some are designed to help the bird fly or shed water. Many are the short, fluffy kin...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
For most birds, keen eyesight is critical for survival. But many birds lead lives that could be very hard on the eyes — like flying at breakneck sp...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
How long can a bird fly without touching the earth? To find out, Swiss scientists attached sensors to Alpine Swifts. The sensors showed long period...
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Gordon Hempton, the Sound Tracker, records the sounds of nature in pristine places. Mesmerized by a Winter Wren singing in the Joyce Kilmer Memoria...
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Have you ever watched ducks walking around in freezing temperatures and wondered why their feet don't freeze? And how do birds, including this Nort...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 01:45
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 30, 2015
- Length: 01:45
By December, an array of diving birds that nested at far northern latitudes are wintering on temperate waters across the continent. If we could wat...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 01:45
House Finches are evolving rapidly and visibly. In 1941, some captive House Finches from California escaped near NYC. They spread rapidly and are n...
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 01:45
By the time November rolls around, the bird songs of summer can seem a distant memory. But there’s always something to listen for. Small birds like...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 01:45
What does relocating Caspian Terns from an island in the Columbia River have to do with luring Short-tailed Albatrosses away from an active volcano...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 01:45
As the colder months arrive, birds that remain in northern climates face the harsh realities of staying warm and finding food. Some birds approach ...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Forest fires have profound effects on birds and other wildlife — for better or worse. High-intensity fires often decimate habitat. But low-intensit...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and WUTC
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Autumn…and geese fly high overhead in V-formation. But what about that V-formation, angling outward through the sky? This phenomenon — a kind of sy...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Waterfowl such as this Greater White-fronted Goose have long followed a predictable schedule, flying south in autumn after breeding in the north. B...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
It’s October in Yosemite. Acorn Woodpeckers, Clark’s Nutcrackers, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Mountain Chickadees like this one know it’s time to ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
What does the Pacific Wren hear in a song? It's a long story. What we hear as a blur of sound, the bird hears as a precise sequence of sounds, the ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Collective nouns are a mixture of poetry, alliteration, and description. Victorians often made up names for groups of birds, as a parlor game. Many...
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Today, September 26, 2015, is National Public Lands Day. Comprising nearly 850 million acres of land and 3.5 million square miles of ocean, our pub...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Who among us hasn’t almost walked into a glass door? Birds though, especially when migrating, run the risk of colliding with reflective glass in ur...
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Parrots are among the smartest of birds. But are they clever enough to know each other by name? Research conducted by ornithologist Karl Berg sugge...
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The ability to fly seems to define birds. But there are more than 40 species of flightless birds throughout the world — from the Ostrich and Kiwi t...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The Emperor Penguin is the largest penguin on the planet. It’s also the deepest and longest underwater diver. Biologist Jessica Meir, pictured here...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
How do birds drink? A robin takes a mouthful of water and then tips its head way back to send the water down its gullet. Pigeons are among the few ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Some birds stash unopened seeds for use later. But how do they know which seeds are worth the trouble, before expending the energy to open them? A ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
