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A few times each year, the Eastern Paradise-Whydah puts on its party clothes. This small finch is found in East Africa, and males and females gener...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Found in much of Central America, White-throated Magpie-Jay flocks are family groups led by a dominant female. They include a mate and several fema...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Bird nests can be hard to find, often hidden in plain sight. Is the clever camouflage simply the result of using building materials that the birds ...
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- Added: Jun 18, 2023
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Throughout much of North America, the Great Blue Heron graces waterways, ponds and lakes. They’re built for hunting fish and amphibians along the w...
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- Added: Jun 18, 2023
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Just a few weeks past the solstice, and the real heat of summer is yet to come. Some shorebirds are already on their way south, but most songbirds ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
During her first year at the Yale School of Architecture, Kenyan graduate student Barbara Nasila was tasked to design a hypothetical outdoor pavili...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
It might sound strange, but dirt helps birds scrub themselves clean. Birds of all sizes (like the Eurasian Skylark) often scrape a depression in th...
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Birds of the same species don’t always sing exactly the same as each other. But those that live near each other sometimes have similar songs. Scien...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, writer Camille T. Dungy shares the poem “Clearing” from her new book, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden.
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Bird feathers are famously light, but they’re also strong, holding up under tricky flying and high winds. They’re made of beta keratin, a tougher v...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
The Toco Toucan of South America has evolved to stay cool in the sweltering heat of the tropics. Relative to its body size, the Toco Toucan has the...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Around this time of year, many baby birds are begging their parents for food. A Hairy Woodpecker chick calls from its nest carved deep within a dyi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Milkweed plants are important to Monarch butterflies, which depend on milkweed to raise their caterpillars. But Monarchs aren’t the only ones who b...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
If you were to stand face to face with an owl, including this Great Gray Owl, it would eventually move its head, bobbing rhythmically from side to ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Writer and environmentalist Bill McKibben has been pushing for climate solutions for decades. Now in his 60s, Bill’s working to organize people age...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
In spring and summer, the paths around local ponds might have some fluffy obstacles: young goslings along with their caring and defensive parents. ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
In August 2008, Kasatochi Island erupted in the middle of auklet breeding season, burying tens of thousands of chicks in hot ash. At first, the auk...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
It’s spring, and a female duck swims across a pond with ducklings in tow. Some of the youngsters might not be her own. Wood Ducks and others may la...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Nearly all birds produce sound through an organ unique to birds, the syrinx. In many songbirds, the syrinx is not much bigger than a raindrop. Extr...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
A city lake is one of the most prized places in a fast, growing environment. It’s also often difficult to distinguish all of the bird calls from ea...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Elegant Black Terns breed in summer on secluded wetlands across the northern states and Canada. Because of major losses of wetlands in their breedi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Isaiah Scott is a twenty-year-old birder who already runs a popular Instagram account called Ike’s Birding Hikes. He has a passion for learning mor...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
Two eagles locking talons high above the ground might look like they’re risking injury, but it’s a normal courtship behavior called the “cartwheel ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
This week is Clean Beach Week. Many busy beaches are also where declining species such as Piping Plovers and Least Terns have their nests. Keeping ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
There’s a group of birds that lay their eggs underground — in geothermally heated burrows, or warm sands, or even mounds of organic material warme...
- Added: Jun 18, 2023
- Length: 01:45
