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On a Cold, Cold Night
From: BirdNote
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When the bitter cold of winter arrives, songbirds face an emergency: how to keep warm through the night. On normal nights, many prefer sleeping sol...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Trumpeter Swans Rebound in Arkansas
From: BirdNote
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Trumpeter Swans weigh over 25 pounds and measure about five feet from beak to tail. They were nearly hunted to extinction by the turn of the twenti...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Sandhill Cranes Are Expanding Their Range
From: BirdNote
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In some parts of North America, Sandhill Cranes are common as ants at a picnic. In New England, on the other hand, they’ve been almost as rare as p...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Migrations: Pine Siskin Irruption
From: BirdNote
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Do you ever see flocks of birds in your yard that show up in droves one year, but are completely absent the next? Some nomadic species such as Pine...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Making Roads Safer for Wildlife and People
From: BirdNote
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Roads can get people where they need to go. But they often run right through wildlife habitat, creating a deadly hazard for animals on the move. Li...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Song of the Mountains: The Brown-backed Solitaire
From: BirdNote
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Brown-backed Solitaires are ordinary-looking: medium-sized, gray-brown birds. But they have one of the most melodic, complex songs in the world, ri...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Bird Tracks in the Snow
From: BirdNote
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Look for the stories birds tell with their tracks in the snow. A crow swaggers, leaving right-and-left steps much as a walking human would. Juncos ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
BirdNoir: Dial E for Eagle
From: BirdNote
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In this BirdNoir mystery, the private eye fields a call from a woman who says a large bird that looks like a Bald Eagle stole a Rainbow Trout from ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Here Come the Barred Owls
From: BirdNote
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The emphatic hoots of a pair of Barred Owls resonate in the still of a winter's night. Like many owls, Barred Owls initiate their vocal courtship i...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Wandering Tattlers Traverse the Pacific
From: BirdNote
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The Wandering Tattler is one of the few birds equally at home along the coast and high in the mountains. They’re found far and wide along Pacific s...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Bluebirds Close to Home
From: BirdNote
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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
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 64
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes that question responsibility.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Living Planet 01/12/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Is recycling really the answer to the plastic crisis? Globally only 9% of all plastic waste is recycled. But why is that rat...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WXDU, and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Living Planet 12/29/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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On this week's Living Planet, we're airing an episode from a miniseries on the plastics age by DW podcast On the Green Fence. RERU

Bought by Radio Kansas


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Baby Birds’ Bizarre Beaks
From: BirdNote
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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
Wonderchicken!, The
From: BirdNote
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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
Birding 101: Bird Vocab Basics
From: BirdNote
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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
Ferocious Feet of the Great Horned Owl, The
From: BirdNote
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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 Swim in Synchrony
From: BirdNote
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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 Woodpecker and its Curious Name, The
From: BirdNote
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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
Songbirds: the Large and Small of It
From: BirdNote
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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
Blackbirds' Strange Music
From: BirdNote
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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
Ducks That Whistle
From: BirdNote
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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
Bohemian Waxwings - Exquisite Winter Visitor
From: BirdNote
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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
Tui of New Zealand, The
From: BirdNote
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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

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