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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...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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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...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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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...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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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...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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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...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Swallow or Swift?
From: BirdNote
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At a glance, swallows and swifts, both graceful fliers, look much alike. But swifts — like this Chimney Swift — have longer, slimmer wings and shor...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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What’s a Beak Made Of?
From: BirdNote
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Bird beaks, or bills, come in many shapes and sizes. And birds use them for just about everything: to collect food, preen, fight, court (as this pa...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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The Brown Thrasher's Never-Ending Songbook
From: BirdNote
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The Northern Mockingbird isn’t the only mimic bird in town. Brown Thrashers also learn songs from nearby birds and add them to their repertoire. Th...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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The Ulūlu's Comeback
From: BirdNote
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There are promising signs that a native Hawaiian bird called the ulūlu is on the way to recovery. Also known as the Millerbird, this small gray son...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Phainopeplas Glisten
From: BirdNote
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A slim, sleek bird with a spiky crest, Phainopepla comes from the Greek for “shining cloak.” The name refers to the male’s glistening, inky black f...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Minnesotans Embrace Their Inner Loons
From: BirdNote
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Each year, adults and children gather in Crosslake, Minnesota to celebrate the incredible sounds of the Common Loon — the state bird of the land of...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Turkey Vulture - Sky Sailor
From: BirdNote
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Although some of the Turkey Vulture's habits may evoke our disgust, these remarkable birds also inspire our awe. With wingspans approaching six fee...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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When Does a Crossbill's Bill Cross?
From: BirdNote
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A young crossbill starts life with a wedge-shaped beak. As it grows up and starts to feed itself by removing conifer seeds from their tough packagi...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Hovering with Horned Larks
From: BirdNote
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Horned Larks rival meadowlarks as the most colorful birds of North American grasslands. They live in prairies, fields, and tundra, but agriculture ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Looking Two Ways at Once
From: BirdNote
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Great-tailed Grackles are known for their long, expressive tails, and their wide vocabulary of odd sounds. But this bird has another special trait....

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Making a Home Among the Saguaros
From: BirdNote
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In the arid Arizona desert, where cacti thrive but trees are scarce, the Gila Woodpecker and Gilded Flicker carve out nest cavities in living sagua...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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The Peabody Ducks
From: BirdNote
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Twice every day, a rapt audience gathers at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee to see six local celebrities: five ducks and the hotel’s head D...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Scintillating Starlings
From: BirdNote
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In Africa, where there are dozens of starling species, a quick look reveals a variety of visual stunners. Some of the names hint at their dazzle: S...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
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Buff-breasted Sandpiper
From: BirdNote
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A male Buff-breasted Sandpiper courts a female on their breeding grounds far north of the Arctic Circle. He raises his wings, flashing their silver...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Migration and Fat
From: BirdNote
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If long migratory flights are amazing, what goes on inside a bird’s body during those flights seems absolutely astonishing. To store fat, birds may...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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The Crafty Carolina Wren
From: BirdNote
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Though half the size of a robin, the Carolina Wren has a powerful singing voice that seems to come from a much bigger bird. Many people remember th...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Protecting Endangered Birds from Maui’s Wildfires
From: BirdNote
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The Maui Bird Conservation Center helps care for Hawai‘i’s critically endangered bird species, some of which have gone extinct in the wild. Jennife...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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A Giant Parrot of New Zealand
From: BirdNote
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New Zealand was once home to a massive parrot that stood three feet tall, about hip-high to most adult humans. It’s estimated that the bird weighed...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Migrations: Watching Seabirds Summer at the Lake
From: BirdNote
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Many oceanic species like grebes, loons, pelicans, and gulls migrate far inland to raise their young near freshwater lakes. Ring-billed Gulls, for ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Bringing Birding Adventures to Broward County
From: BirdNote
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While Sierra Taliaferro was working as a Naturalist in Broward County, Florida, in 2021, she collaborated with Broward County Library to help enhan...

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