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Birdnote’s Chirpy Cheerful Theme Song
Listeners are always curious about the origin of BirdNote's theme song. In this show, learn how Grammy-Award winning artist Nancy Rumbel and the BirdNote team created the theme. BirdNote is an indepe…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Insects Are Essential
Insects sustain our ecosystems, as a food source and pollinators of 90% of all plants. But their numbers have dropped by half in the last 50 years, so it is now critical to help foster insects. One c…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
How the Woodcock’s Journeys Connect Us
In this show, Marcus Rosten shares his involvement in a study of the American Woodcock with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The study revealed the surprising journeys of …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Lilli Holden on Birding with Students in Chicago
Lilli Holden is an emerging environmental leader in Chicago. She visits local schools and leads students outside to see birds. Lilli says the students’ enthusiasm while birding is contagious. But whi…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Binoculars 101
A decent pair of binoculars can considerably enhance your enjoyment of birds. In this episode, Dara Miles Wilson — a naturalist with Montgomery Parks in Maryland — shares a crash course on how to use…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Lauren Pharr on Being a Black Field Biologist
For her PhD, Lauren Pharr took on a challenge: studying Red-cockaded Woodpeckers, which make their nests high in pine trees. But as a Black woman working as a field biologist in the rural South, Laur…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Freedom Song: Harriet Tubman’s Barred Owl Call
Harriet Tubman was a heroic abolitionist in the cause to end chattel slavery. She was also an excellent astronomer and naturalist — and an expert birder. She mastered the hoot of the Barred Owl, usin…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Robin Rescue
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 walking by who had just the skills for the problem …
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
The Red-winged Blackbird
The Red-winged Blackbird is the theme bird for this year’s Black Birders Week. Deja Perkins, who helps organize the event, introduces us to this species and what the bird represents to her and to Bla…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
City Gulls - Rooftop Nesters
Juvenile Glaucous-winged Gulls are taking flight over downtown Seattle. In Chicago, young Ring-billed Gulls are heading for Lake Michigan. And before long, juvenile Herring Gulls will be soaring over…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago