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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 chance to interview another interviewer is an opportunity I like to take. A chance came on September 4, 2007, when I was able to visit with Ira...
- Added: May 10, 2024
- Length: 29:00
On this episode of Audacious, meet Dr. Dawn Wright! She is the first and only Black person to ever descend to the lowest point on Earth, known as "...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we're defining new ways to consider profit as a return on investment--not as an enemy of change but as a catalyst fo...
Bought by WETS
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 1
The ins and outs of harvesting rainwater in arid regions.
Bought by WOJB
- Added: Apr 29, 2024
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 1
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
For her PhD, Deja Perkins is studying datasets generated by the public, also known as participatory science projects. These projects include eBird,...
Bought by KCNP
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
While Dara Wilson was working at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in D.C., she introduced visitors to the Amazonia exhibit. She would describe the so...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
When Adé Ben-Salahuddin stopped to help a trapped young bird on his way home from work, he found an unexpected source of help: an older Black woman...
Bought by KBIA and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
This episode narrated by Marcus Rosten explores the history and the birdlife of the Niagara River Corridor. Just downstream from the falls, Long-ta...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, neuroscientist Lola Neal explores how birds are used as models to understand many neural processes, as they have cognitive abiliti...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, Nicole Jackson and Emma Brittain announce the fifth year of Black Birders Week, a week-long celebration with events and activities...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In 2019, several co-workers at the National Audubon Society formed a team for the World Series of Birding that focused on identifying female birds....
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Red-headed Woodpeckers excavate cavities in large, dead trees called snags. Yet, over much of the Red-head's range, snags are frequently cut down a...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As darkness descends on a May evening, the voices of many birds go quiet. But for some birds, especially those known as nightjars, the music is jus...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gives a word of advice to Ollie, an up-and-coming gumshoe. Ollie thinks he has heard his fir...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Waterfowl like this Muscovy duckling spend up to 30 days in the egg, so they’re able to walk, swim, and feed themselves as soon as they hatch. We c...
- Added: Apr 18, 2024
- Length: 01:45
