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The Tui of New Zealand
The Tui is one of New Zealand’s most remarkable birds, intelligent and with iridescent feathers. Its down-curved beak fits perfectly into native flow…
9 hours ago
Bananaquits Love Sweets
Bananaquits are tiny songbirds with a sweet tooth. Their distinctive curved bills are perfect for sipping nectar from woodland flowers and urban humm…
1 day, 9 hours ago
Letter to a Kentucky Warbler
In this episode, ornithologist J. Drew Lanham reads a letter he has written to a Kentucky Warbler, an “uber-skulky” species that’s hard to find but b…
2 days, 9 hours ago
The Stunning King Eider
The King Eider is one of the most striking sea ducks in the Northern hemisphere. This male King Eider is trying to woo a mate with soft coos and bril…
3 days, 9 hours ago
How a Bird Came to Look Like a Caterpillar
The Cinereous Mourner is a small, ashy-gray bird that lives in the forest understory of the Amazon Basin. And it’s taking mimicry to the next level: …
4 days, 9 hours ago
Dovekie At Sea
Dovekie are robin-sized seabirds related to auks and puffins. Their compact, black-and-white bodies are perfect for life on the water. In winter, bir…
5 days, 9 hours ago
The Lustrous Purple Gallinule
What’s the most colorful bird in the U.S.? The Scarlet Tanager? Maybe the Painted Bunting? Well, consider one more lustrous candidate: the Purple Gal…
6 days, 9 hours ago
Chestnut-collared Longspur
The cheerful-voiced Chestnut-collared Longspur shares their northern prairie breeding range with grazing cattle. Although heavy grazing can have adve…
1 week ago
Flying Dinosaurs: Leaping and Gliding
For years, scientists debated whether the first flying dinosaurs, the ancestors of modern birds, began by running and making little hops off the grou…
1 week, 1 day ago
Hilarious Bird Sounds With Becca Rowland
Birds make a lot of sounds — so many that author and illustrator Becca Rowland had a hard time keeping them straight. That was until Becca began pick…
1 week, 2 days ago