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Many woodpeckers chisel out deep cavities in tree trunks in order to lay their eggs and raise their brood. The cavities hollowed out by the birds v...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Amid discussion of renaming birds that are named after people, ornithologist J. Drew Lanham forms a “committee of one” to choose his own names for ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Eagle Cliff in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch State Park is an important nesting site for Peregrine Falcons. Each year, popular climbing routes in...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Researchers studying birds called Japanese Tits, relatives of the chickadees and titmice in North America, noticed that mates raising chicks togeth...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The spider’s web is an intricate piece of precision engineering. Made from large proteins, it’s sticky, stretchy, and tough. So it’s no surprise th...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Male Great Egrets have special long feather plumes called aigrettes, which they use in courtship displays in the spring. These beautiful big birds ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Artist David Shepard designs aloha shirts with illustrations of Hawai‘i's native flora and fauna. David actually trained as a botanist, and one of ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Tiny Marsh Wrens live in wetlands, usually within cattails, reeds, or bulrushes. After choosing his territory, the male weaves up to 15 dome-shaped...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, J. Drew Lanham shares how his grandmother’s personal names for the birds helped shape his own relationships with birds. Names such...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As singers go, American Robins are exceptional. They’re often the first birds to sing in the morning, and the last you’ll hear in the evening. Whil...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
If you’re new to birding, you might be baffled by names like Couch’s Kingbird, Wilson’s Warbler, and Townsend’s Solitaire. These birds were named i...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
It takes a special breed to head to a Great Lakes beach during the windiest months of the year. But storm photographers are up for the challenge.
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 09:18
Lake Superior can change in a heartbeat; one minute it’s calm ― the next it's raging into a wild storm. When people in the water get caught off-gua...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:46
Laura Neese says she was practically raised in a dog kennel. What began as a homeschool project, is now a lifelong obsession, as she competes in so...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 15:00
HOUR ONE: "Avian obsessions" - It’s summer and the birds are singing. Building nests, eating worms. Watching them makes a lot of people happy – but...
- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 01:59:01
Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is...
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- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 30
Summer is coming soon, and for many that means vacation. While traveling far and wide can be an amazing experience, the carbon cost of traveling is...
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 58:57
After young birds have left the nest and can fly short distances, they still follow their parents and beg for food. They squawk and assume a beggin...
Bought by KBIA
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Evolution on islands can produce unusually large species. Haast’s Eagle lived on the islands now known as New Zealand. With a wingspan of 9 feet an...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Raising baby birds is a lot of work. You might think that after seeing off their fledged young ones, bird parents would call it a day. But a surpri...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In grasslands of the central U.S., birds called Dickcissels sing a quirky song that “spells out” the syllables of their name. Dickcissels are appro...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
There’s no wrong place to search for birds — looking out the window and listening for calls and songs is a great place to start. But you might be c...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
At midday, it might seem like the birds that were so active in the morning have gone silent, maybe even vanished. But cormorants rally in the after...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
It's dawn in a western marsh in mid-summer, and man! Those birds are singin'! The males of more than a dozen species are staking out their territor...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Brown Pelicans are a regular sight today along the Gulf of Mexico and our southern coastlines. But these birds have not always been so plentiful. T...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
