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The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge was once where some of the country’s dirtiest weapons were produced, like mustard and sarin gas...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Barn Swallows have adapted to nesting near people, and build their cup-shaped mud nests in barns or garages, or on protected ledges, often near eac...
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
If you see a bird with abnormal white feathers, that bird may have a genetic condition called leucism. Leucistic birds, like all-white birds bred i...
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
It’s been said that if someone knows only three birds, one of them will be the crow. They’re common, easy to see, and even easier to hear. But crow...
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Male hummingbirds keep a watchful eye on their territory and will often perch atop a high, bare twig in order to fully view their surroundings. Fro...
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Many woodpeckers chisel out deep cavities in tree trunks in order to lay their eggs and raise their brood. The cavities hollowed out by the birds v...
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Birds have been living near humans for millions of years. But only during the past 5,000 years have birds and humans shared space in cities and tow...
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
This Scarlet Tanager (R), its cousin the Western Tanager (L), and your latte have a connection. Much of the birds' prime wintering habitat has been...
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Darvin Gebhart is a champion goose-caller. But there are also birds that use human language. Sparkie Williams was a famous parakeet, or budgerigar,...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
High-speed passenger trains in Japan were once a real headache, because their engineering caused a "tunnel boom," a huge boom created by air being ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
In higher animals, the brain is like a BMW — amazing engineering, but expensive to run. In a human, the brain uses about 10 times more energy than ...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Like a jazz player beating out a drum roll, a woodpecker uses its bill to rap out a brisk series of notes. Early spring resounds with the percussiv...
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
There are fifteen species of cranes across the globe, found everywhere but Antarctica and South America. During the winter, cranes forage and rest ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Tony Angell, along with Professor John Marzluff of the University of Washington, wrote the book, Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Th...
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
The annual Great Backyard Bird Count, February 16-19, 2018, is sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Birdwatchers across the country count b...
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 01:45
Do Snowy Owls hunt during the day or at night? As they are normally arctic birds, Snowy Owls are adapted to hunt both during the long hours of summ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Birds brighten our lives. They connect us with nature. But sometimes they connect us a bit too directly with nature. Park under the wrong tree - wh...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
Elisa Yang, a teenage birder, couldn’t find a young birder group anywhere in California -- so she created her own. In the San Bernardino National F...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
Some owls, like Barred Owls and Great Horned Owls, live in the city. As hunters, they find a lot to eat in the city — like rats or squirrels! Both ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
To help backyard birds through the winter, do less. Leave the leaves or rake them under plantings. The tasty insects and spiders underneath will be...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 3
Vampire Ground-Finches menace their victims in broad daylight, stabbing holes in their flesh, then devouring the blood. During the dry season, when...
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Autumn brings robins to feed on tree fruit and berries. Are the robins you see now the same robins that you saw in your garden last summer? Some ro...
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
European Starlings regularly adorn their twig nests with marigolds, elderberry flowers, yarrow leaves, and even willow bark — all of which are full...
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
What does the Pacific Wren hear in a song? It's a long story. What we hear as a blur of sound, the bird hears as a precise sequence of sounds, the ...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Imagine an Ostrich, an Emu, a roadrunner, and the world’s fastest man and woman, all lined up for a race. Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt holds the men...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KRPS
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
