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If you had to pick the bird most like a superhero, the Bobolink might not be an obvious choice. But these quirky blackbirds have abilities that wou...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Eleven-year-old Zjencès Bell took an early interest in birds after he learned his first bird call. And as a piano student, Zjencès soon blended his...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The crocodilians — crocodiles and their relatives, like the American Alligator — are the closest living relatives of birds. About 250 million years...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
A male American Golden-Plover proclaims its nesting territory with an aerial display known as the "butterfly flight." After flying up 50 feet, the ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Author Nick Belardes was walking at a park near his home in San Luis Obispo, California, when he saw a man who seemed in tune with birds. Belardes ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Northern Hawk Owl is one of the least studied and least known of all birds in North America. Northern Hawk Owls are owls, but they share severa...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Baltimore Oriole is a standout bird. With adult males’ electric orange and jet black feathers, and females and immature birds in various shades...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
After a Northern Flicker carves out a nest cavity, chances are the birds will use the cavity for just one nesting season. But the cavity may have a...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and by Birds Canada, volunteers for Project NestWatch observe local nesting birds and track whether the...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Some gulls and terns may show a glowing pink color, similar to that of flamingos and spoonbills. This pink color comes from pigments in the birds' ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
An evening baseball game isn’t the only thing illuminated by the bright stadium lights. High in the air, countless flying insects are drawn to them...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Resident Cooper’s Hawks that nest in the urban areas of Albuquerque, New Mexico, are thriving as the populations of doves, their prey, have explode...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As it began to hail, Marlon Inniss saw several Canada Geese doing something odd. Rather than trying to shield their heads, the geese pointed their ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
If you’ve already done things around the home with birds in mind, consider one more action that might be less obvious. Turning the thermostat down ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Swainson's Thrush, the Hermit Thrush, and this Veery are small, brown birds, but their songs clearly distinguish them. The Swainson's Thrush an...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
After David Shephard moved to Hawai‘i to study botany, he realized that the “main character” of the islands is birds — many plants have co-evolved ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Many birds – like this Indigo Bunting – can be found in ecotones, the borders between two habitats. Indigo Buntings breed in the ecotone between fo...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Emily Raboteau’s book, Lessons for Survival, begins with a painting of two Burrowing Owls on the security gate of a local business in West Harlem, ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In the spring, Rufous Hummingbirds journey from Mexico to the northwest U.S., some as far north as Alaska! That’s almost 1000 miles one way for a b...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, Lillian Holden — a Chicago-based environmental educator — introduces us to the African American Heritage Water Trail, a 7-mile str...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...
Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 1
90-second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life.
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
The study of snowfall and snowpack, and its importance in our lives.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: May 19, 2024
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 1
Taking care of ourselves goes hand in hand with taking care of the planet.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: May 19, 2024
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 1
Are Banks Banking on Climate Chaos? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report.
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more
- Added: May 19, 2024
- Length: 06:02
- Purchases: 6
