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The crocodilians — crocodiles and their relatives, like the American Alligator — are the closest living relatives of birds. About 250 million years...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
A male American Golden-Plover proclaims its nesting territory with an aerial display known as the "butterfly flight." After flying up 50 feet, the ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Author Nick Belardes was walking at a park near his home in San Luis Obispo, California, when he saw a man who seemed in tune with birds. Belardes ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Northern Hawk Owl is one of the least studied and least known of all birds in North America. Northern Hawk Owls are owls, but they share severa...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The Baltimore Oriole is a standout bird. With adult males’ electric orange and jet black feathers, and females and immature birds in various shades...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
After a Northern Flicker carves out a nest cavity, chances are the birds will use the cavity for just one nesting season. But the cavity may have a...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Organized by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and by Birds Canada, volunteers for Project NestWatch observe local nesting birds and track whether the...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Some gulls and terns may show a glowing pink color, similar to that of flamingos and spoonbills. This pink color comes from pigments in the birds' ...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
An evening baseball game isn’t the only thing illuminated by the bright stadium lights. High in the air, countless flying insects are drawn to them...
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 01:45
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
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 Living Planet:
Deep dive - The hidden toll of roadkill.
In the US alone, over 1 million animals are killed on roads every day. Globa...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Radio Kansas, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 3
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
