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The Women Who Fought the Feather Fad
From: BirdNote
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the human fascination with bird feathers went a little too far. Women’s hats and dresses featured extrav...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Surprising Secret of Hummingbird Tongues
From: BirdNote
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Hummingbirds use their long tongues to sip nectar from flowers. They’re able to roll their tongues into a tube-like shape. Since the 1800s, scienti...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Spark Bird: Walter and Patch
From: BirdNote
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Sculptor and musician Walter Kitundu first became enraptured by birds in 2005 when a Red-tailed Hawk flew four feet above his head. He named the bi...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Birds as Pollinators
From: BirdNote
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Birds are part of the complex web of Nature, and each fits into this web in its own way. Some even pollinate flowers! While feeding at a flower, th...

Bought by Prairie Public and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Ridgway's Rails on San Francisco Bay
From: BirdNote
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Once abundant around San Francisco Bay, the Ridgway’s Rail — formerly known as the California Clapper Rail — is now endangered. In the 19th Century...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Truffle-Hunting Birds
From: BirdNote
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With their excellent sense of smell, pigs are renowned for sniffing out truffles, a fungus that grows underground and is prized for its taste. But ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Are Birds' Nests Reused?
From: BirdNote
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Let’s talk about nests. Every spring, robins build their cup-shaped nests using grass and mud. Orioles weave a hanging sack. It’s hard work, and ye...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret Lives of Goldfinches
From: BirdNote
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American Goldfinches are one of our most familiar birds, but they lead lives that are anything but ordinary. These birds will sometimes raise two b...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
How Studying Turkey Hens Helps Conservation Efforts
From: BirdNote
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Mike Chamberlain is a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia and co-founder of the Wild Turkey Lab. He’s spent the majority of his 30-plus...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Migration: Long, Short, and In-Between
From: BirdNote
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In September, this Arctic Tern flies from Alaska all the way to Antarctica. Rufous Hummingbirds follow pathways of mountain wildflowers, from as fa...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Can Crows Laugh at Me?
From: BirdNote
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The American Crow’s rattle call is uncommon, and researchers aren’t sure what it means. It could be a gathering call, a predator alarm, or a call b...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Does a Robin Hear Its Worm
From: BirdNote
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How does a robin know a worm is in one exact spot? Does it see the worm or hear it? Smell it? Sense its movements through its feet? To find the ans...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Earth Eclectic 0018
From: Eclectic Collective
Series: Earth Eclectic
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The Perseid Meteor Shower just peaked mid-August, calling to mind questions about how we see the rest of the Universe, from Earth, and how people b...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Living Planet 08/16/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Lessons from Germany’s ‘edible city’ on the Rhine The town of Andernach uses its public spaces to grow fruit and vegetables ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, RadioFreePalmer, WXDU, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Aug 15, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Earth Eclectic 0016
From: Eclectic Collective
Series: Earth Eclectic
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Includes modern, jazz, singer-songwriter, Americana, ambient, metal, rock, featuring Yellowstone National Park and its inhabitants and natural surr...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Dry Thunderstorm Bonus Episode
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: Mosquito Pass sign near Leadville, Colorado, Credit: Larry Lamsa (CC-BY 2.0)
An interview with Jared Blake of AcousticNature.com, and the sounds he captured of a dry thunderstorm near Leadville, Colorado

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 26:48
Winds Across Colorado
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: Flags of Colorado, Credit: Polylerus (CC BY-SA)
Let the many winds of Colorado carry you across the state.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 36:03
Pairie Bonus Episode
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: Yellow-headed Blackbird, Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Credit: USFWS / Cindy Souders (CC BY 2.0)
An interview with Jacob Job featuring more sounds from Colorado's grasslands

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 23:45
Prairie
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Pawnee National Grasslands, Credit: Bettina Arrigoni (CC BY 2.0)
An early May visit to Pawnee National Grasslands, featuring Colorado's official state bird (the lark bunting), prairie dogs, red-winged blackbirds,...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2024
  • Length: 30:07
Waterways of Colorado
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: American Dipper, Gunnison County, Credit: Larry Lamsa (CC-BY 2.0)
Tour the rivers and creeks of north-central Colorado.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:33
A Spring Day in the Colorado Wilderness
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: Colorado River, Kawuneeche Valley, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand County, Colorado, Credit: Alan M Cressler / USGS
Spring comes to the western edge of Rocky Mountain National Park. The recordings in this episode were made in the spring and summer of 2021 to stu...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 30:35
Elk Up Close
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: Elk of Estes Park, Credit: Pete Markham (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Get close to the autumn elk rut in Rocky Mountain National Park.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 33:01
Backyard
From: Ambient Colorado
Series: Ambient Colorado
Caption: Black-capped chickadee at a feeder, Credit: Rhododendrites (CC BY-SA)
Appreciate the natural sounds of a Colorado backyard.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2024
  • Length: 31:25
Living Planet 08/02/24
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Are GM crops the answer to world hunger? By 2050, the global population is expected to reach almost 10 billion. And feeding ...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and Radio Kansas


  • Added: Jul 25, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Catching Insects
From: BirdNote
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Birds that depend on flies for food have many creative ways of catching their prey. Swallows execute sharp turns and quick changes of speed. Bluebi...

Bought by KBIA and WFHB


  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2

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