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Laura Erickson"s For the Birds

"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.

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4:43

Scarlet Tanagers!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/30

An unprecedented number of Scarlet Tanagers turned up on Peabody Street this year, and Laura was thrilled.

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5:16

Review: The Breeding Birds of Minnesota

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/29

A beautiful, useful, and engaging tour de force.

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5:23

Red-headed Woodpecker!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/28

It's a red-letter day when we see one of the prettiest woodpeckers of all.

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5:44

Katie's Boo Jays

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/24

Laura recalls the birds who inspired her baby daughter's second word.

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5:47

Merlin: All Wizards Have Limitations

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/22

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created two extremely useful apps for birders. Merlin is wonderful and useful, but far from perfect.

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7:23

Jelly Redux

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/21

Laura sparked unprecedented anger in a listener last week because of a program and blogpost from 2007. (All my blogpost/transcripts have photos, and some are longer than the program itself, but this program's linked transcript/blogpost has a *lot* more information than I could include in the program, along with pertinent photos and a video.)

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5:51

Review: Kenn Kaufman's new book, The Birds that...

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/17

*The Birds That Audubon Missed* by Kenn Kaufman is a clear-eyed and surprisingly exciting portrait of a time and place that have long ago disappeared, and an important and timely book as well. Laura can’t recommend it highly enough.

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5:58

Kenn Kaufman's new book: The Birds That Audubon...

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/16

Kenn Kaufman has written an important new book. Laura begins her review by talking about her own personal feelings about Audubon and his work before Kaufman's rich and enlightening book gave her a broader, more truthful picture of a deeply flawed yet important human being and his contemporaries.

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6:56

Lincoln's Sparrow

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/14

Laura's been in love with a pretty little sparrow since she first saw it in 1977.

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5:38

My favorite spring arrivals

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/07

With birds, as with her children, Laura has trouble picking a favorite.

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7:11

Rat Poison

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/03

Yet more owls have died, this time in Chicago, from rat poison.

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4:43

May Day!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/02

Not much is happening in Laura's yard yet, but things will be popping within the coming week or two. (Lang Elliott recorded the Carolina Wren's rolling trill. Laura recorded the wren's song.)

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5:59

Don't Count Your Chickens...

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/05/01

Chickens haven't established themselves as wild, feral birds in most places in the world, but they're still the most abundant bird on the planet.

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5:05

Here come the chickens!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/04/18

If chickens found their way to Hawaii on their own, things would have worked out okay for everyone. Unfortunately, they brought humans along, too.

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5:51

The Sapsucker–Hummingbird Connection

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/04/17

During spring migration, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds usually arrive a couple of weeks after Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers do, for a very good reason.

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5:47

Hawaii before chickens and humans arrived

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/04/16

Millions of years ago, Hawaii was off to a rocky start.

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5:54

Chickens, Part 1.5: Kin of Chickens

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/04/11

The rules of counting non-native birds are not always consistent.

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5:38

Chickens, Part I: Domestication

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/04/10

The most abundant bird on the planet, feeding billions of humans every day, is the chicken. Laura talks about how they became domesticated and some genetic differences between domestic birds and their wild ancestor, the Red Junglefowl. The recording used in this program is of a wild Red Junglefowl in India, recorded and contributed to Xeno-Canto by Lars Lachmann.

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5:57

Solar Eclipse!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/04/08

Laura remembers a wonderful eclipse from three decades ago.

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5:19

Trip Guilt and Guilt Trips

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/04/05

Is using energy always the same as squandering it?

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