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— Colleen, East Walpole, Massachusetts
On our latest show (#1,044 June 29): a favorite interview with a bird tour leader from Alberta, Canada; a featured bird from Europe; and Mike O'Connor's advice on preventing squirrel damage to your bird feeders. Hear it here.
How to have a bird-friendly Independence Day (U.S.)
Fireworks can disturb birds and pets, spark wildfires, and pollute. Consider forgoing your own pyrotechnics, or joining a cleanup the morning after. (7/3)
Feeders full of birds
For our Wednesday webcam, a feeder cam in Southern Alberta, Canada, near Banff National Park. When we tuned in about 3 PM Mountain Time, we saw and heard finches and heard a Red-winged Blackbird and some jays. Turn your sound up for this one! (7/2)
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If you're looking for a FREE birding festival in a beautiful U.S. state, look no further than the Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival in Sierra Vista, Arizona. This year's keynote speaker is birder, author, and TV producer Stephen Moss. (6/26)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #1
Here's the first winner of our Make Your Own Swag contest! Pictured is Tim Cornish, who’s plirding (picking up litter while birding) at Armintrout-Milbocker Nature Preserve in Allegan, Michigan. Thanks, Tim! (6/10)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #3
Here's winner #3 of our Make Your Own Swag contest, Annabelle Bradley from Yonkers, New York. Keen-eyed observers may be able to spot the Mourning Dove nesting atop the column right behind Annabelle. (6/12)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #5
This week’s winner is Josh Denton from Indian Trail, North Carolina. He wins a Brome Squirrel Buster Plus special bird feeder (retail price: $124.45). Good going, Josh! (6/30)
How watching birds for 10 minutes a week can help climate scientists this summer
UCLA’s annual Project Phoenix aims to document how birds change their behavior when there’s more wildfire smoke. (7/1)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #4
Here’s Meggan Fox from Des Moines, Iowa with her 1st grade class at Holy Trinity School. They love Talkin' Birds, and we love them! Meggan has been doing birding -- and plirding -- activities with these students, giving them a great start as stewards of the earth. (6/24)
Penguins on the move
This charming video was made by videographer Sean Carey: Gentoo Penguins on Sea Lion Island in the Falkland Islands. Two minutes and 25 seconds of just plain adorable. (6/25)
Make Your Own Swag contest winner #2
Congrats to our second Make Your Own Swag contest winner! Matt Scott from Albany, Minnesota — with his Vortex binoculars, Rose-breasted Grosbeak tattoo … and Talkin’ Birds patch. (6/12)
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Bird vocalizations provided by The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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