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The Keel-billed Toucan, also known as the Rainbow-billed Toucan, looks like a bird with a giant banana for a beak. They have a black body, a yellow...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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The American Robin and the Baltimore Oriole both have cheery, upbeat songs. At first, you might think there’s no way to tell these two cheery, upbe...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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When the bitter cold of winter arrives, songbirds face an emergency: how to keep warm through the night. On normal nights, many prefer sleeping sol...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Trumpeter Swans weigh over 25 pounds and measure about five feet from beak to tail. They were nearly hunted to extinction by the turn of the twenti...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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In some parts of North America, Sandhill Cranes are common as ants at a picnic. In New England, on the other hand, they’ve been almost as rare as p...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Do you ever see flocks of birds in your yard that show up in droves one year, but are completely absent the next? Some nomadic species such as Pine...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Roads can get people where they need to go. But they often run right through wildlife habitat, creating a deadly hazard for animals on the move. Li...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Brown-backed Solitaires are ordinary-looking: medium-sized, gray-brown birds. But they have one of the most melodic, complex songs in the world, ri...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Look for the stories birds tell with their tracks in the snow. A crow swaggers, leaving right-and-left steps much as a walking human would. Juncos ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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In this BirdNoir mystery, the private eye fields a call from a woman who says a large bird that looks like a Bald Eagle stole a Rainbow Trout from ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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The emphatic hoots of a pair of Barred Owls resonate in the still of a winter's night. Like many owls, Barred Owls initiate their vocal courtship i...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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The Wandering Tattler is one of the few birds equally at home along the coast and high in the mountains. They’re found far and wide along Pacific s...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Bluebirds can bring flashes of azure color and mellow songs to where you live. The best way to bring them close to home is with nest boxes. You’ll ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 51:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two episodes that include uncomfortable but necessary conversations.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 23:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Two episodes that are looking for the root of the problem.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Dec 19, 2023
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Terry Tempest Williams
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Most baby birds are adorable little floofs — but not all of them. The tongue and palate of estrildid finch chicks are strangely spotted and ringed....

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2018, paleontologist Daniel Field took a closer look at specimens from an amateur fossil collector. His team used micro-CT scanning, kind of lik...

Bought by KBIA


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Any hobby or special interest has its own jargon. You’ll pick up on the silly slang that birders use as you go – like calling the Yellow-rumped War...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:45
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Great Horned Owls excel at nocturnal hunting, thanks to their acute senses and stealth — but their feet let them secure squirming prey. The outermo...

Bought by KBIA


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
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Razorbills, a cousin to the puffin, nest in colonies on cliffs. Before they lay eggs, Razorbills take part in two unique social behaviors. In one, ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:45
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Red-bellied Woodpeckers are bold, conspicuous, and vocal, thriving in rural and urban areas east of the Mississippi. Like most woodpeckers, Red-bel...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:45