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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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8:34

A Great American President

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2025/01/20

Jimmy Carter did not fail us. We failed him. (I used Lang Elliott's recording of a Brown Thrasher, the state bird of Georgia, for this program.)

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6:28

Owl Irruption

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2025/01/16

Northern owls are staging an irruption this year, many of them physically stressed. Birders can't help but want to see them. If birders stick together and stay on the road, most owls can handle birders and photographers.

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4:39

Year of the Chickadee, Part 3

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2025/01/08

Laura has lots of plans to celebrate her "Year of the Chickadee."

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7:23

Year of the Chickadee, Part 2

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2025/01/07

It took Laura 67 days from receiving her first pair of binoculars to her going out to find her first bird. How did she spend that time?

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5:32

Year of the Chickadee, Part 1

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2025/01/06

Fifty years ago, Laura was abysmally ignorant about birds. And then--a miracle!

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6:39

Empathy: An Innate Quality

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/12/20

Humans aren't the only creatures who have a need to nurture and help others. (This program's transcript is the second half of the linked blogpost.)

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5:25

Learning Empathy from the Best

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/12/19

More evidence that Laura's fifth grade teacher was the very best. (The transcript for this program is the first half of the linked blogpost.)

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4:44

Premature obituaries

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/12/18

Reports of BB's demise were premature. When that happens to human beings, it can sometimes change history.

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4:45

Exit, pursued by a Cooper's Hawk

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/12/17

The banded Pileated Woodpecker who has been visiting Laura's yard for the past four years disappeared after a Cooper's Hawk was hunting in the vicinity. Laura expected the worst. But spoiler alert: he turned up again on Friday the thirteenth. While he was here, Laura recorded a video of him, which is the drumming sound at the beginning and ending of this program.

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5:40

No Way to Stop It

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/12/04

Laura remembers her fifth grade teacher, who taught her, via Rodgers and Hammerstein's original stage musical *The Sound of Music*, that real heroes stand up against cruel regimes even when there is no way to stop it.

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6:21

Frigid Temperatures

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/12/03

How do birds fare during frigid weather?

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5:29

Albatrosses

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/12/02

General facts about albatrosses and good news about a very special one.

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4:57

Thanksgiving 2024

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/29

Laura remembers three Thanksgivings of the past, and how a Pileated Woodpecker keeps those memories alive.

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9:23

In Retrospect: The BP oil spill. Part 5b--Complicity

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/26

Every environmental organization down in the Gulf during the BP oil disaster had to abide by a 5-year moratorium on ALL of their eye-witness information except as BP allowed. National Audubon did way more than honor BP's rules--they publicly parroted all of BP's false claims minimizing how bad the disaster was.

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5:52

In Retrospect: The BP oil spill. Part 5--Staying...

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/25

At the time of the BP oil spill, Laura thought some important organizations were complying with BP more than they should have. Now, as she explains, she realizes that most of them weren't cowardly.

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5:02

In Retrospect: The BP oil spill, Part 4

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/19

Who can we trust after a major disaster?

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6:00

In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 3

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/18

Laura visited one of the four rehab centers allowed to treat birds oiled in the Deepwater Horizon spill.

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6:55

In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 2

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/12

Laura talks about the extremely low-tech and ineffective way BP tried to protect beaches and islands after the spill, and the even worse way they approached cleanup. There are many photos and a video on the accompanying blog post at (https://lauraerickson.substack.com/p/getting-away-with-murder-part-2)

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5:10

Look to the Chickadees

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/11

As Laura faces her 73rd birthday in what feels like a hopeless time, she looks to chickadees. (This program was reworked from the "For the Birds" program from October 12, 2010.)

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5:22

In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 1

Laura Erickson"s For the Birds ·

2024/11/05

The BP oil spill was when Laura learned just how much power a corporation has over individuals; well-meaning and well-respected organizations and institutions; and our government.

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