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Crows Recognize Individual Faces
To find out if a crow can recognize an individual human face, Professor John Marzluff of the University of Washington wore a mask while trapping, ban…
2 years, 5 months ago
Migrations: BirdCast
A blip on weather radar might not be a cloud — it could be thousands of birds! Biologists use radar to keep track of migratory birds, insects, and ba…
2 years, 5 months ago
Hooded Merganser
Hooded Mergansers, affectionately known as “Hoodies,” nest across most of the northern US and well into Canada. They’re especially prevalent around t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Letter to an Eastern Wood-Pewee
In this episode, ornithologist J. Drew Lanham reads a letter he has written to a wood-pewee, a flycatcher with an “understatedly simple and definitiv…
2 years, 6 months ago
HawkWatch
After hawks and eagles, some of the sharpest eyes belong to hawk-watchers, experienced spotters who count raptors during spring and fall migration. G…
2 years, 6 months ago
Strange Chickadee Songs of Massachusetts Islands
The song of the Black-capped Chickadee pretty much the same throughout the U.S. and Canada — with just a few exceptions, like on some Massachusetts i…
2 years, 6 months ago
Monk Parakeets: Little Green-Blue Invaders
Monk Parakeets, also known as Argentine Parrots, are native to South America but have become popular as pets – thanks in part to their intelligence a…
2 years, 6 months ago
Millicent Ficken Studied How Birds Play
Millicent Ficken spent her career studying bird behavior and communication. The first woman to earn a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Co…
2 years, 6 months ago
Who Likes Suet?
Chickadees and titmice, nuthatches and jays, and woodpeckers, like the Pileated pictured here, all love suet. As do birds whose beaks can’t open seed…
2 years, 6 months ago
Brown-headed Nuthatches of Apalachicola National Forest
Many Brown-headed Nuthatches make their home in the tall longleaf pines of the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida. Twittering constantly, the bi…
2 years, 6 months ago