On our latest show: Do birds sing in their sleep? — a Science Corner report. Plus, listener audio postcards from the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Pocosin National Wildlife Refuge; and backyard birding observations from Al Batt in Minnesota and Mike O’Connor on Cape Cod.
#930 April 16, 2023
On our Latest show: A Brazilian bird brought back from the brink; Listener Audio Postcards from California and Italy; and a very colorful — and vulnerable — bird from Eurasia.
#906 Oct. 23, 2022
On our latest show: 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight with Peter Cavanagh; a hummingbird-filled Audio Postcard; and Mike gives a thumbs down to mothballs.
#751 Oct. 27, 2019
On our latest show: The decline in grassland birds, and what folks in the Dakotas are doing about it; how noise pollution affects nesting birds; the Ruddy Duck’s struggles in the UK; and Mike tells us about the most abundant bird in the world.
#692 Sept. 2, 2018
On our latest show: the delicate but fierce American Avocet; why meadowlarks look like an unrelated African bird; the Pope declares the ocean plastic trash problem an “emergency”; and where are all the male hummingbirds?