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Woodpeckers are our most familiar bird carpenters, but other birds also chip out nests in trees and wood structures. Nuthatches — like this Red-bre...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2024
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Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2024
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In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gets a call from his friend Billy, a mail carrier. Billy says he hasn’t seen a single bird o...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As thousands of army ants march through a rainforest in Panama looking for food, countless insects try to escape. Antbirds follow the ants, waiting...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
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Boreal Owls are highly adapted to hunt in long hours of winter darkness. Uniquely, one ear opening in the skull is set high and the other much lowe...
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Humboldt Penguins living along the Pacific Coast of Chile and Peru are adapted to cold. But on land, temperatures rise to 100+ degrees, and penguin...
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To our ear, the haunting song of this Hermit Thrush is musical, even ethereal. To another Hermit Thrush, the song signals that a male is laying cla...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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...
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Mallards are found virtually everywhere there is open water, from city parks and subalpine lakes to sheltered bays and estuaries along the coasts. ...
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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 ...
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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...
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For years, scientists debated whether the first flying dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, began by running and making little hops off the gr...
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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...
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By March in the East, cardinals and other songbirds that don't migrate are already singing heartily to attract mates. Many other birds - including ...
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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...
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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...
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The Reddish Egret, a particularly glamorous heron, is best known for its startling antics in capturing fish. When fishing, the egret sprints across...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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John Zaktansky leads the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association, which is using recording devices to ID birds by sound on different parts of th...
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- 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
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