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Collective nouns are a mixture of poetry, alliteration, and description. Victorians often made up creative names for groups of birds, as a parlor g...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The nuthatch’s beak is all business. Long, slender, sharp: it can pluck a tiny spider from a crevice in the bark or carve a nest hole right through...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Consider finding a local conservation group that’s doing work that matters to you — beach cleanups, volunteer bird surveys, keeping local parks bea...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Outdoor cats are one of the biggest threats to birds, killing over a billion a year in North America. And indoor-outdoor cats live much shorter liv...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Birds that historically nested in the cavities of dead trees are finding natural nest holes harder to come by — but people can help. Many of these ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
eBird, a project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, lets you log the bird species you observe on a smartphone app or on the web. Whether you’re goi...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Climate change, habitat destruction, and invasive species have taken a toll on bird populations. It’s a difficult reality to face — but it’s not th...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The Common Murre is among the few species of birds that can "fly" under water. When above the water, the 18"-long murre must flap frantically to st...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The Golden-crowned Kinglet weighs six grams, about the same as two pennies, yet winters as far north as Alaska and Nova Scotia. The birds move thro...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
In the warmer regions of the world’s oceans, large seabirds called boobies plunge headfirst into the water, snatching up fish. But as a booby flies...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Developing eggshells requires a key ingredient — calcium — in larger quantities than the female typically has in her bloodstream. Just how differen...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Day Scott’s interest in birds grew following a car accident that resulted in a traumatic brain injury. As she recovered, she would sit in the kitch...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
In Mexico City, 73-year-old Catia Lattouf started a hummingbird hospital — in her apartment! She hosts dozens of hummingbirds as they recover from ...
Bought by KBIA
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Most duck species court and form pair bonds in winter. In the icy waters of Vermont’s Lake Champlain, Common Goldeneyes are getting hot! This male ...
- Added: Dec 15, 2023
- Length: 01:45
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: As Israel-Hamas War Stokes Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, Universities Mu...
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 28, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Trees have birthdays too, and scientists find out when they are by studying the rings of trees. This week on The Children's Hour, we learn how to d...
- Added: Nov 20, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Both the Willow Ptarmigan and these White-tailed Ptarmigan, feathered mostly brown in summer, are utterly transfigured by an autumn molt. As snow b...
Bought by KBIA, Raven Radio, and Prairie Public
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
The word “dove” might make you think of an elegant bird symbolizing peace, while the word “pigeon” might bring up images of rowdy flocks of city bi...
Bought by Raven Radio, Prairie Public, and KBIA
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
The treeswifts of India, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and beyond make their nests out of bits of plants and feathers and hold it all together with s...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Juan Pablo Culasso is a nature recordist based in Colombia. Here, he describes how he uses a parabolic microphone to record a singing bird. Juan Pa...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Trees have birthdays too, and scientists find out when they are by studying the rings of trees. This week on The Children's Hour, we learn how to d...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 10
By late January, some resident birds, such as the Northern Mockingbird, are beginning their spring singing. When you step outside on a particularly...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Cuba is home to a unique population of Northern Bobwhites, with plumage patterns and short bills that set them apart from bobwhites on mainland Nor...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
In the depths of winter, when open water is frozen over, it can be challenging for birds to stay hydrated. Some birds eat the frozen water all arou...
- Added: Nov 13, 2023
- Length: 01:45
