Talkin’ Birds Senior Producer Debbie Blicher spent a week at Hog Island Audubon Camp exploring different kinds of bird science. Here’s what it sounded like and how you can go, too.
#468: March 30, 2014
Saving the Monarch Butterfly and a mysterious singer from Michigan.
#458: January 19, 2014
A tiny Troglodyte with a super-size song and chew-proofing your bird houses.
#430: July 7, 2013
The Kingfisher's ancient Greece connection and our latest Bird Song Comparo.
#423: May 19, 2013
The world's most amazing bird songs and a warbler with a tubular tongue.
#421: May 5, 2013
A Talkin' Birds Exclusive: The Kentucky Birdy. And Don Kroodsma helps us hear bird song the way birds hear it.
#376: June 24, 2012
One bird, 3,000 songs and the amazing journeys of three small shorebirds.
#359: February 26, 2012
We'll learn about 20th anniversaries for a famous fishing ground and a popular birders' gathering; and we'll meet a bird that's a wonderful dancer, but a rotten singer.
#356: February 5, 2012
We learn that Snowy Owls have wandered much farther south than we could have ever imagined. And our man in Minnesota, Al Batt, talks about mid-winter bird song and much more.
#343: November 6, 2011
University of Wisconsin avian biology professor Mark Berres tells us about his new birdsong ID software. Plus, we stump our callers in the Mystery Bird contest; and Mike O'Connor answers an unusual listener question.
#324: June 26, 2011
We'll learn how to do a perfect bird imitation—by banging two rocks together. Also, Mike O'Connor helps a listener with a nest problem, and we almost stump our callers in our Mystery Bird Contest.
#264: April 25, 2010
We hear a bird whose song has been described as that of a Robin's...as performed by an opera singer; we learn the easiest way to identify a Fish Crow; and we present a Mystery Bird that thrives on mistletoe.
#236: October 11, 2009
We present a Mystery Bird that says its name, and we find our Featured Feathered Friend way down in South Texas.
#195: December 28, 2008
We learn about a sea mouse and an evening singer, and get some tips on keeping your tabby away from your troglodytes.
#171: July 13, 2008
We "return to those thrilling days of yesteryear," hear a most unusual-sounding bird, and try to solve a mystery about some nocturnal woodpeckers.
#135: November 4, 2007
We find out why our beautiful Mystery Bird doesn't sing; we learn about a bird that's not as big as it looks; and Mike O'Connor offers some tips on caring for your...dead trees.
#115: June 17, 2007
We learn some of the secrets that have helped Don Kroodsma become the world's leading authority on birdsongs.