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¿Qué es un paisaje sonoro?

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2024/05/07

El uruguayo Juan Pablo Culasso es ciego de nacimiento y lleva más de dos décadas grabando de forma profesional los cantos de los pájaros y sus ecosistemas. Cuando edita sus grabaciones él busca que sus oyente puedan transportarse a diferentes lugares a través de los sonidos. Esta historia fue

Sharing BirdNote with the Next Generation

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2024/05/06

When a new generation of birds hatches, they copy the songs they hear from nearby adults. A young bird’s first attempts aren’t perfect. But like any young musician, they improve with practice. Here at BirdNote, we’ve heard from many listeners who say they enjoy listening to the show with children or

Swallow-tailed Kite

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2024/05/05

A bird of prey in the American Southeast takes grace to an utterly new level. It's the Swallow-tailed Kite. A sleek raptor with a deeply forked tail, the Swallow-tailed Kite almost never flaps its wings. The bird makes sudden tight turns, upside-down moves, and quick backward dives, all by pivoting

Gulls or 'Seagulls'?

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2024/05/04

Gulls seem so much a part of the sea that we often just call them "seagulls," a colloquial title for these graceful, ubiquitous creatures. Twenty-two species breed in North America. The Pacific coast is home to the aptly named Western Gulls. The familiar Ring-billed Gull nests all across the

Do Parrots Name Their Chicks?

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2024/05/03

Parrots are among the smartest of birds. But are they clever enough to know each other by name? Research conducted by ornithologist Karl Berg suggests the answer might be yes. Berg’s studies of Green-rumped Parrotlets — such as the one pictured here — indicate that every parrot in a family flock has

Spring Birds Arrive in the Eastern Forest

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2024/05/02

May in an Eastern hardwood forest, and the chorus of spring birdsong is nearing its peak. The Carolina Wren, a year-round resident, has been singing since the end of winter. The resounding notes of this Ovenbird let us know it has returned safely from Belize, after a long flight across the Gulf of

Craig Santos Perez and the Last Safe Habitat

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2024/05/01

Poet Craig Santos Perez grew up on the island of Guam, and later moved to Hawai‘i where his children were born. Both are places that once flourished with unique and diverse bird life, but because of invasive species and climate change, have seen so much loss and extinction. In this episode, he

Pericos Subterráneos

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2024/04/30

Los pericos barranqueros excavan túneles profundos para anidar en acantilados de arenisca y piedra caliza de Argentina y Chile. Muchos de los túneles de la colonia zigzaguean y se interconectan creando un intrincado laberinto. Sus colonias de anidación son de las más grandes entre los loros. ¡Una en

Birding 101: Finding Birds Any Time of Day

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2024/04/29

Morning is a great time for birding – that’s the peak of singing and foraging activity for many species. But it’s not the only time to experience birds. Some species, such as American Robins, sing for much of the day. Daytime predators such as hawks and cormorants are active in the middle of the day

Beak Meets Seed

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2024/04/28

Birds like finches, chickadees and Northern Cardinals love sunflower seeds, but each species uses a different strategy to extract the meat. When a finch plucks a sunflower seed from the feeder, it uses its tongue to maneuver the seed lengthwise into a groove on its beak. As it closes its beak, a

Unlikely Places to Go Birding

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2024/04/27

Birding is often best in the least likely places. At sewage treatment plants, watch for ducks and gulls – and raptors keeping watch over them all. Another place might be your local landfill or dump. The Brownsville, Texas dump was, for years, the only place in the U.S. you could find this Tamaulipas

Claire Wahmanholm: You Can Always Hear the Highway

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2024/04/26

Poet Claire Wahmanholm's work focuses on nature and the environment. As she was walking around a nature preserve north of Chicago, Claire was listening for birds but realized there was something else she was hearing: the ever-present hum of a nearby highway. “When you're trying deliberately to hear

Cactus Wren Nest Orientation

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2024/04/25

Cactus Wrens, which may nest several times between March and September, carefully orient their nests in tune with the season. These bulky twig structures have a side entrance that curves toward the inner chamber. When building a nest for the hot months, the wren faces the opening to receive the

Green-winged Teal by the Millions

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2024/04/24

Green-winged Teal are North America's smallest dabbling duck, at just over a foot long and weighing less than a pound. The male has a cinnamon brown head with a band of green behind the eye. Both males and females have a green bar on the wing that gleams like an emerald when the sun strikes it

Cascadas, cuevas y vencejos acollarados

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2024/04/23

Un grupo de vencejos acollarados, unos enormes vencejos del tamaño de pequeños halcones, hacen su camino aleteando hacia una pequeña cascada en el sur de México. Volando a velocidades de hasta 160 kilómetros por hora atraviesan la cascada cortándola, hasta llegar a la cueva que está detrás. Los

Hawai‘i as a Model for Conservation

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2024/04/22

With invasive species and climate change, Hawai‘i has experienced so much loss and extinction since Western colonists arrived. But Sam ‘Ohu Gon, the Senior Scientist and Cultural Advisor for the Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i, is native Hawaiian, and he has done a lot of work connecting Hawaiian

How Cliff Swallows Build a Nest

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2024/04/21

When Cliff Swallows arrive on the breeding grounds in North America, the dirty work begins. The swallows scoop up mud in their beaks and carefully build a gourd-shaped nest with a tapered opening. They add a lining of dry grass to keep eggs warm. It takes days of work and a thousand mouthfuls of mud

Creating Bird Habitat at Home

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2024/04/20

One of the biggest threats to birds is the decline in biodiversity due to habitat loss — and the traditional, manicured lawn isn’t helping. Growing native plants in your yard allows you to protect birds at home, says ecologist Douglas Tallamy, who co-founded an organization called Homegrown National

The Secret to Singing Like a Cardinal

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2024/04/19

Northern Cardinals have vocal abilities that surpass even the most accomplished human singers. When cardinals sing, they sweep their voices from the high to low end of their ranges many times in just seconds. The secret is in the clever way cardinals use their two-sided vocal organ, called the

Recognizing a Stranded Loon

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2024/04/18

Loons are built for life in the water – so much so that their legs don’t work well on land. During migration, loons sometimes mistake wet pavement for the reflective surface of deep water and try to land there, then become unable to take flight again. If you see a stranded loon on a road or parking

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