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The harsh caws of American Crows are one of the most familiar bird calls in North America. Fish Crows sometimes join flocks of American Crows as th...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, we meet Aviary: the superhero alter-ego of a mild-mannered birder bitten by a radioactive feather mite. Aviary became able to shap...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Most swallow species that nest in North America eat almost nothing except flying insects. When the bugs die off in the fall, the swallows head sout...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
John Zaktansky leads the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association, which is using recording devices to ID birds by sound on different parts of th...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When Great Horned Owl eggs hatch, the downy owlets are the size of newborn chickens. Their mother broods them day and night. A few weeks later, the...
- Added: Feb 12, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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
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
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
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
An audio postcard highlighting native bees -- including nuances of their behavior, life history and ecological importance.
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 01:28
Coming up on The Spark Weekly,
Scott LaMar speaks with Author Joel Burcat about his newest novel Reap The Wind, which is a fictional account of th...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 46:12
Whether it be standardized testing, grades, extracurricular activities or personal essays, the question of how to level the playing field in educat...
- Added: Jan 31, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Two episodes about finding effective solutions.
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- Added: Jan 30, 2024
- Length: 50:00
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Generation Justice interviews Dr. Magdalena (Magda) Avila about climate justice and the importance of the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality...
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 33:35
Brian Dunning examines the evidence that humans are warming the earth.
- Added: Jan 27, 2024
- Length: 59:00
With a graceful leap, wings outstretched, Sandhill Cranes welcome the longer days. The stately cranes are courting, renewing an annual dance they p...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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 ...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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 ...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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,...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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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...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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