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Giving Chimney Swifts a Place to Live
From: BirdNote
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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
Birdbaths in Winter
From: BirdNote
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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
Turkey Vultures on the Move
From: BirdNote
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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
An App That Helps You Hear High-Pitched Bird Songs
From: BirdNote
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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
Ep 99. Neil Young: Love as the Apocalypse Rocks Us
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
2024-02-02 Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 9
240202: Jane Fonda: A Lifetime of Activism, 2/2/2024
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Jane Fonda has spent the last several decades fighting for Indigenous peoples' rights, economic justice, LGBTQ rights, peace, gender equality and m...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:58
Leaping with Sandhill Cranes
From: BirdNote
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With a graceful leap, wings outstretched, Sandhill Cranes welcome the longer days. The stately cranes are courting, renewing an annual dance they p...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
How Noise Pollution Affects Birds
From: BirdNote
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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...

Bought by KBIA and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Observe First, Photograph Second
From: BirdNote
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When Day Scott teaches people how to take pictures of birds, she emphasizes observing birds carefully before picking up the camera. Sometimes that ...

Bought by KBIA and WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Birds, Berries, and Germination
From: BirdNote
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Some plants have evolved fruits with edible flesh that attract birds. When birds swallow the fruit, they also ingest the seeds. They transport the ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Hovering Is Hard Work
From: BirdNote
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Hummingbirds are built for hovering flight, with flexible wrists that rotate their wings in a rapid figure-eight motion that generates almost const...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Biomimicry - Japanese Trains Mimic Kingfisher
From: BirdNote
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In the 1990s, train engineers in Japan built trains able to travel nearly 170 miles per hour. The problem was that when the trains exited a tunnel,...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Dining with Sanderlings
From: BirdNote
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While many shorebirds have gone south, tiny sandpipers called Sanderlings are easy to find on winter shores. They follow the waves as they lap in a...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Creating Abstract Paintings of Migratory Birds
From: BirdNote
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Artist Debra Ramsay became fascinated with the way that birds and their colors mark changes in the seasons. In her “Migrations” project, she painte...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Tennessee Warbler, Nectar Thief
From: BirdNote
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Tennessee Warblers love drinking nectar, but they do it without helping to pollinate flowers. By tapping a hole into the base of a flower, these wa...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Lesser Yellowlegs, Loud and Proud
From: BirdNote
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When the shorebirds called Lesser Yellowlegs sense a threat to their nest, they’ll put up an unforgettable racket to drive the danger away. Smaller...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Nictitating Membranes - Nature's Goggles
From: BirdNote
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For most birds, keen eyesight is critical for survival. But many birds lead lives that can be very hard on the eyes — like flying at breakneck spee...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Finding Food When It Snows
From: BirdNote
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Fresh-fallen snow is beautiful, but it poses a challenge to birds. The ground where they found food is now covered by several inches of snow. Birds...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Costa Rica Winter Sunrise
From: BirdNote
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On a winter morning in Costa Rica, a colorful choir welcomes the day. A pair of Bay Wrens sings a brisk duet just before sunrise. Perched in the up...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Cockatoos and People Trying to Outwit Each Other
From: BirdNote
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In several neighborhoods of Sydney, Sulphur-crested Cockatoos have learned ways to open trash bins and grab some leftover food. Researchers found t...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Memory of the ‘Ō‘ū
From: BirdNote
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Sam ‘Ohu Gon was one of the last people to see an ‘Ō‘ū, a native Hawaiian bird that’s presumed to be extinct. He’s worked at the Nature Conservancy...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Tokens of Affection
From: BirdNote
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Birds have many ways of showing affection for their partners. One way is allopreening, where a bird uses its bill to groom a mate, twirling each in...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Rainbow-Billed Toucan: The Flying Banana
From: BirdNote
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The Keel-billed Toucan, also known as the Rainbow-billed Toucan, looks like a bird with a giant banana for a beak. They have a black body, a yellow...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Telling Apart Two Cheery Bird Songs
From: BirdNote
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The American Robin and the Baltimore Oriole both have cheery, upbeat songs. At first, you might think there’s no way to tell these two cheery, upbe...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1

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