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This Bar-tailed Godwit makes one of the longest migrations of any animal — a 7,200-mile non-stop flight each autumn from western Alaska to New Zeal...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
As most young male birds get ready to leave the nest, they learn their species’ song by hearing their male parent sing it again and again. They imp...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Knowing how clever parrots are, researchers wanted to see how they’d respond to another parrot saying hi on a tablet or phone. After being trained ...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
A forest in New Zealand rings with the sound of bellbirds, also known as Korimako or Makomako. Many bellbirds sing together, especially in the morn...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Like most juvenile shorebirds, this young Black-bellied Plover was abandoned by parents that began their southbound flights from the Arctic Nationa...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Jack Gedney’s book, The Private Lives of Public Birds, is dedicated to the familiar birds we see and hear in our neighborhoods. Illustrated by Anna...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Aleutian Cackling Geese, which have a slighter build and shorter beak than Canada Geese, build their nests on a chain of islands off the western co...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
What could bring crowds of people out after sunset on a September evening to stare at ... a chimney? Swifts, of course! Scores of swifts form a fu...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Adjusting the flaps on an airplane’s wing allows a pilot to control lift and drag — and the design of these flaps was inspired by the wings of bird...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Writer Jen Sizeland has found peace through watching birds throughout her life, so she wanted that for her child, too. When she was pregnant, she s...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
“Sounds Jewish” helps to beat the unprecedented heat with refreshing Jewish music about shade and cool drinks.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Aug 04, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: We visit the state of West Virginia in the United States to hear from people grappling with the phase out of coal mining. Wh...
Bought by WXDU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and Radio Kansas
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
The stars appear to rotate in the sky, raising the question of how birds can use stars to navigate during migration. Ornithologist Stephen Emlen br...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Found throughout North America, the common sunflower can grow up to ten feet high, towering over other herbs and grasses. And that’s only half the ...
Bought by KBIA
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Ranging from metallic hisses to electronic yodels, sounds of grackles may not be music to our ears—but they have their own rough beauty, a distinct...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Before the high-tech gadgets used to track bird migration today, there was moon-watching: a technique dreamed up in the 1940s by ornithologist Geor...
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- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
To distinguish one bird from a similar one, watch how the bird moves. Does it flick its wings? Bob up and down? Flip its tail? The White-breasted N...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
By late summer, most birds hatched in spring are on their own, without help from their parents. Where do they go? Young migratory birds will head s...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Found in the Sierra Madre, the Arizona Woodpecker has a special connection to the mountain range. Sharing mid-elevation pine and oaks with fellow b...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
It’s been said that if someone knows only three birds, one of them will be the crow. They’re common, easy to see, and even easier to hear. But crow...
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- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Nature educator Johanne Ryan shares her observations of Southern Lapwings, shorebirds that make their nests on the ground in open areas and vigorou...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
When birds like these Dunlin form flocks, each individual is less likely to be captured by a predator. Some shorebirds that forage with their heads...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Sometimes, a species’ song changes over the course of a few decades. But a bird that lives in the mountains of eastern Africa, the Forest Double-co...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Pigeons seem to bob their heads as they move, like they’re grooving to an internal tune. But what look like head bobs are actually momentary pauses...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
August 22 is the birthday of renowned French composer, Claude Debussy. Born in 1862, Debussy is known for his impressionistic sonic portraits, like...
- Added: Jul 20, 2023
- Length: 01:45
