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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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4:24

The New Kid on the Block

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/11/04

A new Pileated Woodpecker spent some time in Laura's yard making her wonder how Pileateds figure out bird feeders.

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6:00

What's the Name of That Song?

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/11/02

New apps can identify songs for us, whether those songs were produced by a person or a bird. (The program opens with a Sesame Street recording of "What's the Name of That Song?" and uses the "Li'l Darlin'" tract from the album *The Atomic Mr. Basie*.

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5:19

When Rarity Begets Rarity

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/31

When birders gather to see one rare bird, they often spot another one.

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5:11

Birds in Art, Part 3: When Birds and Humans Intersect

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/25

Laura's favorite thing about the Woodson Art Museum's annual "Birds in Art" exhibit is how each artist has a unique spin on the theme.

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5:14

Birds in Art, Part 2: The 2022 Exhibit at the Woodson...

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/24

Laura talks about her visit last month to the Leigh Yawkkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau to see the 2022 Birds in Art exhibit.

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5:18

Birds in Art, Part I: A little history

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/21

Laura's annual sojourn to the Woodson Art Museum in Wausau to see this year's Birds in Art exhibit got her thinking about the history of bird art.

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4:20

The Value of Certified Coffee

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/18

Laura's quiet morning routine would be far less satisfying if the coffee she drank had robbed tropical birds of habitat or hurt the people growing and harvesting it.

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5:27

Joy in the Morning

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/17

Starting the day with a cup of coffee while watching chickadees, Blue Jays, and a Pileated Woodpecker just inches away--what could be better? (Any time I mention a photo or video, it appears on that program's blog post. Today's shows video of the Pileated bobbing her head.)

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5:02

When Numbers Get Serious

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/14

Blue Jays broke a record this month--over 60,000 of them migrated over Hawk Ridge in Duluth. What does this mean? And what the heck does it have to do with baseball?

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5:40

Saw-whet Owl!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/07

This week, a little saw-whet owl turned up behind Laura's backyard.

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5:11

October!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/10/03

Saturday morning was a splendid start to the month, at least on Laura's corner of Peabody Street.

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7:53

Hit By Pitch

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/27

Baseball players sometimes get hit by pitches--nowadays no one more than Laura's favorite player of all, Anthony Rizzo. But those players have a much greater survival rate than the hapless dove who got beaned by a baseball. (The accompanying blog post has a LOT more information than I could fit into the podcast.)

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4:32

Dee Dee Nana

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/23

Laura's grandson Walter has a brand new name for her.

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4:26

Hawk Ridge: Fifty Years and Counting!

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/22

This is the fiftieth anniversary of Hawk Ridge Nature Reserve in Duluth. People will be celebrating this weekend.

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5:15

Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Part 2

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/21

Stony Point was filled with happy birders on Saturday morning.

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3:47

Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Part 1

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/20

It's hard to get anything accomplished when an extremely rare Fork-tailed Flycatcher appears.

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5:29

September Hummingbirds

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/19

Laura thinks the old rule about bringing hummingbird feeders in by Labor Day is ridiculous. She'll be leaving hers out until at least the end of November. She was still seeing a hummingbird on September 18.

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6:01

Moosey and Puffy

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/06

Two of the greatest highlights of Laura's Alaska trip were Horned and Tufted Puffins. Puffins are popular enough that Alaska gift shops sold lots of them--but not one that Laura could find was one of these two native Alaskan species--they were all Atlantic Puffins!

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5:34

Anything Can Happen

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/09/02

The time around Labor Day Weekend is what Laura thinks of as the "Anything Can Happen" time of year. (The recording at start and finish is of a Semipalmated Plover, from the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The Cedar Waxwing recording was made my Lang Elliott.)

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7:00

If you build it, will they come?

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2022/08/29

How do we encourage declining birds to start using newly-restored habitat? Daniel Wanschura's "Points North" podcast for Interlochen Public Radio about Dustin Brewer's Michigan rail study can be read or heard at the IPR website [here.](https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/show/points-north/2022-08-19/thin-as-a-rail)

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