On today’s show: Avian Audio Postcards from New York and California; a summer birding essay from Minnesota; and special Plastic-free July guest, Dana Ripper from the Missouri River Bird Observatory and BeyondPlastics.org.
#944 July 23, 2023
On our latest show: Bird song from a Colorado Big Year; an Audio Postcard from California; and our Freya McGregor with a report on her cross-country book research trip.
#826 April 4, 2021
On our latest show: Watching Swallow-tailed Kites on an Alabama farm; controlling the grackles trying to take over your bird feeders; and some good conservation news from an unexpected source.
#705A Dec. 9, 2018
We meet the “Blue Canary,” we visit the Science Corner, and we hear some amazing stuff about swifts from Mike O’Connor as we revisit a favorite show from late September.
#696 Sept. 30, 2018
On our latest show: A bird that flies without landing…for 10 months! Plus, the bluest blue bunting, and Conservation Salutes to a politician and a big corporation. (!)
#528 May 31, 2015
On today's show we meet the “Cotton-backed Yellowhammer”; try to solve the mystery of Bird Ventriloquism; and learn the identity of a name-saying Mystery Bird.
#524 May 3, 2015
100 Indigo Buntings, the beautiful Yellow-rump, and the return of the "sparrow halo"
#217: May 31, 2009
We learn how the Purple Martin got its name, we get some advice on attracting Indigo Buntings, and blue is the color of our Mystery Bird.