Podcast Episodes
Back to Search05-07: A Sparrow Back from the Brink with Andrew Walker
One of the most underrated bird stories of the last few years, has been the rapid decline of the resident Florida subspecies of Grasshopper Sparrow. …
5 years, 1 month ago
05-06: Birding through Pandemic and Cancer with Rebecca Heisman
The year 2020 was an especially difficult one for many of us, but for writer and birder Rebecca Heisman, perhaps more than most. In addition to the r…
5 years, 1 month ago
05-05: In Defense of the Cowbird with Sarah Winnicki
Pity the poor cowbird. Under-appreciated at best and outright hated at worst, the cowbird and its nest parasitic ways certain lend themselves to stro…
5 years, 1 month ago
05-04: This Month in Birding - January 2021
It's This Month in Birding for January 2021, and we start the new year off with a panel as impressive as Lady Gaga's gigantic bird pin. Guests includ…
5 years, 1 month ago
05-03: Notes from the High Arctic with Clare Kines
Long-time bird blog fans might remember Clare Kines and his blog The House and other Arctic Musings. It was was a familiar voice on the birding inter…
5 years, 1 month ago
05-02: How to be "Hawky" with Janet Ng
The wide open spaces of the North American west are frequently spotted with signs of human industrial energy production. Oil and gas wells, massive w…
5 years, 2 months ago
05-01: A Guide to Bird Behavior with John Kricher
John Kricher is well known by anyone with an interest in tropical ecology. He's professer emeritus of biology at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and…
5 years, 2 months ago
04-44: Four Years of the American Birding Podcast
We didn't intend to make an episode this week, but friend of the podcast Jordan Rutter came to me and suggested that instead of the regular podcast w…
5 years, 2 months ago
04-43: This Month in Birding - December 2020
It's the end of December and the end of 2020, and the This Month in Birding crew takes a broader look at the month and the year that was and looks fo…
5 years, 2 months ago
04-42: Invasion of the Winter Finches with Matt Young
The winter of 2020-21 is one the likes of which we have not seen before. It's a finch superflight year, with boreal grosbeaks, finches, siskins, cros…
5 years, 3 months ago