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High Island, Texas
From: BirdNote
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Each spring, millions of songbirds migrate north from the tropics to nest in North America. It takes 15 hours on average to cross the roughly 500 m...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Poetry Month: Susan Nguyen
From: BirdNote
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For National Poetry Month, we’re sharing contemporary writers’ work about birds. Poet Susan Nguyen got a hummingbird feeder from her neighbor in 20...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
A Hawk That Hunts in Packs
From: BirdNote
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Most raptors are solitary birds, but Harris’s Hawks of the southwestern U.S. live and hunt in groups of two to six. After spotting a prey animal, t...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Two Wings and a Tail
From: BirdNote
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The Wilson's Snipe lives in marshes and muddy areas, where it probes for worms and other squirmy delights. But when spring comes, it takes to the a...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
An April Fool’s Birdsong Quiz
From: BirdNote
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In this April Fool’s Day quiz from BirdNote, we play the sounds of three birds — only one of which is real. See if you can tell which one, and let ...

Bought by Prairie Public and WFHB


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
03252024: Querencia: A Place We Call Home, 3/25/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour we learn about the concept of querencia: the feeling of “home” in a place, and with our communities. Using poetry,...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Owls
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Who’s hooting? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we learn all about owls with Mrs. Charles second graders from Albuquerque’s Coronado Element...

Bought by KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, RadioFreePalmer, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
022624: Owls, 2/26/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Who’s hooting? On this episode of The Children’s Hour, we learn all about owls with Mrs. Charles second graders from Albuquerque’s Coronado Element...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Among the Stately Trees
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Where's the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or inf...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 66
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The finale to the series Those Who Can’t Teach Anymore, a 7-part series that explores why teachers are leaving education and what can be done to st...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Education and research at the UC Natural Reserves System and National Parks
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
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Dave looks at some interesting ways the University of California's Natural Reserves System are used for both education and scientific research. Som...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Flying with Birds and Bats
From: BirdNote
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Bats and birds have evolved very different ways of flying. Birds have stiff feathers projecting from lightweight, fused arm and hand bones; bats ha...

Bought by KBIA


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Warbler That Loves Pines, The
From: BirdNote
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The Pine Warbler is one of the few warblers that make appearances at bird feeders. They live year round in pine forests of the southeast U.S. and s...

Bought by KBIA and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Listen for Tapping
From: BirdNote
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Woodpeckers are our most familiar bird carpenters, but other birds also chip out nests in trees and wood structures. Nuthatches — like this Red-bre...

Bought by Prairie Public and KBIA


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Using Sound to Bring Rails Back into Wetlands
From: BirdNote
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Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...

Bought by KBIA


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
BirdNoir: A Dark and Stormy Night
From: BirdNote
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In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gets a call from his friend Billy, a mail carrier. Billy says he hasn’t seen a single bird o...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
Birds on the March with Army Ants
From: BirdNote
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As thousands of army ants march through a rainforest in Panama looking for food, countless insects try to escape. Antbirds follow the ants, waiting...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
In the Dark with Boreal Owls
From: BirdNote
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Boreal Owls are highly adapted to hunt in long hours of winter darkness. Uniquely, one ear opening in the skull is set high and the other much lowe...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Do Penguins Blush?
From: BirdNote
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Humboldt Penguins living along the Pacific Coast of Chile and Peru are adapted to cold. But on land, temperatures rise to 100+ degrees, and penguin...

Bought by KBIA


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Songs and Calls - They're Not the Same
From: BirdNote
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To our ear, the haunting song of this Hermit Thrush is musical, even ethereal. To another Hermit Thrush, the song signals that a male is laying cla...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
Keeping Wood Storks on the Road to Recovery
From: BirdNote
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With their bare heads, long legs and massive bills, Wood Storks seem to have flown out of a fairytale — but in the American South they’re a real-li...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
Everybody Knows a Mallard
From: BirdNote
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Mallards are found virtually everywhere there is open water, from city parks and subalpine lakes to sheltered bays and estuaries along the coasts. ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
Janet Ng on Becoming a Wildlife Biologist
From: BirdNote
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When Janet Ng was a kid, there was a very specific moment when she realized what she wanted to be as a grown-up: seeing a wildlife biologist being ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
Geese Aloft: Flock Voices of March
From: BirdNote
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Geese migrate north between February and April, making stopovers along the way to rest and eat. Most are bound for their breeding grounds in the fa...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
Flying Dinosaurs: Leaping and Gliding
From: BirdNote
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For years, scientists debated whether the first flying dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, began by running and making little hops off the gr...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45

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