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Playful Keas
From: BirdNote
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Keas are large alpine parrots from New Zealand. Intelligent and social, they have olive-green plumage, a red rump, and a long, curved beak. Keas pr...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Women Who Fought the Feather Fad
From: BirdNote
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the human fascination with bird feathers went a little too far. Women’s hats and dresses featured extrav...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Surprising Secret of Hummingbird Tongues
From: BirdNote
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Hummingbirds use their long tongues to sip nectar from flowers. They’re able to roll their tongues into a tube-like shape. Since the 1800s, scienti...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Spark Bird: Walter and Patch
From: BirdNote
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Sculptor and musician Walter Kitundu first became enraptured by birds in 2005 when a Red-tailed Hawk flew four feet above his head. He named the bi...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Birds as Pollinators
From: BirdNote
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Birds are part of the complex web of Nature, and each fits into this web in its own way. Some even pollinate flowers! While feeding at a flower, th...

Bought by Prairie Public and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Ridgway's Rails on San Francisco Bay
From: BirdNote
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Once abundant around San Francisco Bay, the Ridgway’s Rail — formerly known as the California Clapper Rail — is now endangered. In the 19th Century...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Truffle-Hunting Birds
From: BirdNote
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With their excellent sense of smell, pigs are renowned for sniffing out truffles, a fungus that grows underground and is prized for its taste. But ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Are Birds' Nests Reused?
From: BirdNote
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Let’s talk about nests. Every spring, robins build their cup-shaped nests using grass and mud. Orioles weave a hanging sack. It’s hard work, and ye...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret Lives of Goldfinches
From: BirdNote
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American Goldfinches are one of our most familiar birds, but they lead lives that are anything but ordinary. These birds will sometimes raise two b...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
How Studying Turkey Hens Helps Conservation Efforts
From: BirdNote
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Mike Chamberlain is a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia and co-founder of the Wild Turkey Lab. He’s spent the majority of his 30-plus...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Migration: Long, Short, and In-Between
From: BirdNote
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In September, this Arctic Tern flies from Alaska all the way to Antarctica. Rufous Hummingbirds follow pathways of mountain wildflowers, from as fa...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Can Crows Laugh at Me?
From: BirdNote
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The American Crow’s rattle call is uncommon, and researchers aren’t sure what it means. It could be a gathering call, a predator alarm, or a call b...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Does a Robin Hear Its Worm
From: BirdNote
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How does a robin know a worm is in one exact spot? Does it see the worm or hear it? Smell it? Sense its movements through its feet? To find the ans...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
CP - Back to School (with Plants) - Sean Doherty, VP of Education, Missouri Botanical Garden
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
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It’s back to school time – you can tell by the ads on television and radio (yes, I was watching the Olympics!) and by the displays at the stores wi...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Bogus Earth Theories
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
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The Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, Expanding Earth and more, oh my! Come along with us today as we look at some suspect theories about our home planet.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Ocean Music
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week we're taking listeners to the shore, to be reminded of the importance of silence, solitude and renewal in our lives, and of the healing p...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Aug 07, 2024
  • Length: 05:10
  • Purchases: 1
Amy Sutherland— "Lessons About Ourselves From Animal Trainers"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Reinforcement of desired behavior is the key to animal training. As humans, we are subject to the same way of learning. Amy Sutherland, author of, ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
BD - State of the oceans report with NASA oceanographer and climate scientist Josh Willis
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Josh Willis
Dave visits with his good friend, Josh Willis. Josh is an oceanographer and climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Cali...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif. and KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Aug 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
God Heals, Part 4: The cells of our body also have a consciousness
From: Ethical Programs
Series: God Heals: Healing by the Spirit – A Prophetic Teaching on the Health of Soul and Body
Caption: God Heals, Healing by Faith, Credit: Gabriele Publishing House, www.gabriele-publishing-house.com
In Part 4 of this series, we learn about the consciousness of our body cells and how to raise our vibration to health and wellness. Based on the bo...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2024
  • Length: 27:07
Catching Insects
From: BirdNote
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Birds that depend on flies for food have many creative ways of catching their prey. Swallows execute sharp turns and quick changes of speed. Bluebi...

Bought by KBIA and WFHB


  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 2
Warning Eggs About a Warming World
From: BirdNote
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For birds, learning starts early. Birds listen to their parents’ songs and calls from inside the egg. Recent findings have shown that calls from Ze...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Migrations: Molt Migration
From: BirdNote
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At the end of summer, the once-bright feathers of a male American Goldfinch look ragged. Growing new flight feathers in a process called molting ma...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Do Woodpeckers Suffer Brain Injuries?
From: BirdNote
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When woodpeckers drum, they slam their beaks against bark many times per second. Scientists have long hypothesized that woodpeckers have a way of p...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
Wood Ducks Succeed
From: BirdNote
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Your eye may be drawn to the gorgeous male Wood Duck, but it is the call of the modestly plumaged female you’ll hear. This call tells the male wher...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Broad-tailed Hummingbird’s Dazzling Dives
From: BirdNote
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Broad-tailed Hummingbirds are small but hardy creatures built for life in the mountains. They survive freezing cold nights by slowing their heart r...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1

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