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Wild With Nature

Bilingual (English/español) stories of birds, plants, insects, and other creatures that celebrate wonder, connection, and meaning through nature. New podcast at the beginning of each month. Enjoy these stories—and if you like them, please share them! Historias bilingües (inglés/español) de aves, plantas, insectos y otras criaturas que celebran el asombro, la conexión y el sentido de la vida por la naturaleza. Publico un nuevo podcast al comienzo de cada mes. Disfruta estas historias—y si te gustan,

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00:14:17

Well-hidden wanderers: searching for Montana's...

Wild With Nature ·

2023/02/15

“They make it their profession to blend in,” says Beth Mendelsohn. She’s talking about long-eared owls – and specifically, the male long-eared owl who is peering down from the Russian-olive behind us. His posture is upright, his earlike feather tufts partially raised. Beth is a research biologist with the Owl Research Institute (ORI), a nonprofit based in Charlo, Montana. This morning we’re out with her and Denver Holt, ORI’s founder. And as you might suspect, given the name of this nonprofit, we’re

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00:20:08

Nómadas bien escondidos: los búhos cara canela de...

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2023/02/15

“Lo hacen su profesión camuflarse,” dice Beth Mendelsohn. Está hablando de los búhos cara canela (Asio otus) – y en concreto, el búho cara canela varón quien está mirándonos desde un árbol del paraíso detrás de nosotros. Tiene una postura erguida. Sus penachos, que se parecen a ojos (pero realmente no los son), son parcialmente levantados. Beth es bióloga investigativa quien trabaja para el Instituto de Investigación de Búhos (ORI, por sus siglas ingleses), una organización sin fines de lucro basada

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00:15:30

An abundance of overwintering raptors

Wild With Nature ·

2023/02/11

How do you count up overwintering hawks and eagles? And, just as importantly, who cares? Raptors are hunters. Our smaller birds mostly feed on insects, seeds, and fruits: foods that are often abundant on a local scale. But raptors hunt animals. Depending on the species, their diets may include deer mice, voles, ground squirrels, jackrabbits, trout, suckers, sparrows, and ducks. And for this reason, raptors are relatively rare. Just as there are countless thousands or millions of seeds in the world

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00:22:27

Una abundancia de aves rapaces del invierno

Wild With Nature ·

2023/02/11

Una rodaja fina de la luna menguante cuelga en un cielo parcialmente nublado esta mañana. La curva azul de montañas que nos rodea sigue en sombra. Estoy con Stephen Turner, un pajarero local. Estamos manejando despacio por el valle, haciendo un circuito de 71 millas entre álamos, pasturas, campos agrícolas y zonas residenciales. Nuestra meta es directa, pero de ninguna manera es fácil. Queremos contar las aves rapaces que están pasando el invierno en este valle.

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00:09:55

Death by eagle? The world that artificial...

Wild With Nature ·

2023/02/03

A soft gray tuft of feathers, a spot of blood along the trail... a death has occurred near Hauser Dam. What happened here?

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00:13:20

¿Muerte por águila? El mundo que las Inteligencias...

Wild With Nature ·

2023/02/03

Encontramos una muerte misteriosa, un ave en la nieve cerca del Río Missouri. ¿Qué es? Y ¿qué nos pueda enseñar?

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00:10:38

A mossy mystery nest in the hawthorn

Wild With Nature ·

2023/01/24

The nest sits in the middle of the hawthorn in front of us, silent and inscrutable. We contemplate it, tucked securely among thorny branches, at the edge of a frozen slough near the Bitterroot River. Perhaps it contemplates us, too. It’s a flat, mossy cup, larger than my two fists. Our question today is simple enough: whose nest is this? But if we hope to find an answer, we’ll have to use all our powers of observation and imagination.

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00:19:40

Counting the birds of LaValle Creek in the fog

Wild With Nature ·

2023/01/13

Missoula, Montana's LaValle Creek is an area with a diverse mix of habitats, from grassland and hawthorn thickets to aspen groves and conifer forest. And for four years now, Steve Flood has been counting winter birds in this area as part of the Missoula Christmas Bird Count. This year, I went with him. This story is about the birds we found - and those we didn't find. And it's also about being part of something much larger: a continent-wide search, involving thousands of volunteers, to check up on

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00:16:24

Winter chickadees and nuthatches on the Upper Swan...

Wild With Nature ·

2023/01/06

Western Montana's Swan Valley is wild and forested. It's also the location of one of over 2600 Christmas Bird Counts that take place across Canada, the United States, and Latin America each winter. This is the story of this wintry, forested Christmas Bird Count. It's a story of chickadees, golden-crowned kinglets, and red-breasted nuthatches: common winter birds in the conifer forest. But it's also a story of the birds we didn't see: the forest finches that were conspicuously missing on this day

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00:20:58

The Fort Missoula Ponds: a hotspot for biodiversity

Wild With Nature ·

2022/12/30

Once the site of a gravel quarry, Missoula, Montana's Fort Missoula Ponds have become a magnet for ducks, shorebirds, and many other creatures. In fact, birders have recorded a whopping 231 species of birds here over the past few years. In December, the bird activity is much quieter than it would be during the warm season. Nevertheless, it's a chance to see what’s out here in the cold and to remember all of the creatures that will be returning in the spring. Besides looking at birds, habitat, and

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00:09:14

Missoula's winter ducks in the teeth of the Hellgate...

Wild With Nature ·

2022/12/22

Even as the Hellgate wind blasts Missoula, MT with its icy breath, we spot goldeneyes & mergansers along the river on this winter walk with Five Valleys Audubon Society. This is part of the "town-bound birding series" - a set of short monthly walks aiming to make the wonder of our local birds accessible to all.

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00:11:04

Groundwater - seeing into the underground river

Wild With Nature ·

2022/12/15

It turns out that a stream doesn't just end at its banks. It continues underground: a slow-moving world of water, percolating through the sands and gravels under our feet. This story is about groundwater and its intimate relationship with Rattlesnake Creek, an important stream near Missoula, MT. But these basic concepts about groundwater and its connection to streams apply just about anywhere.

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00:11:41

Ducks, raptors, and more at Lee Metcalf National...

Wild With Nature ·

2022/12/09

The ponds and marshes at Lee Metcalf NWR, in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, were mostly frozen on this frigid day in late November. But nevertheless, we found a variety of waterfowl, raptors, and smaller birds around this extensive wetland complex. This is the story of another day in the field with the Montana Natural History Center. It's a story about habitat and the resilience of our winter birds.

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00:20:20

Finding winter fruits, birds, and more in Greenough Park

Wild With Nature ·

2022/12/01

Missoula, Montana's Greenough Park is an urban natural space near the edge of the city: an interesting mix of wild and domesticated, native plants and garden escapes. In mid-November, I joined a group of naturalists, led by Ser Anderson of the Montana Natural History Center, in a wintry "naturalist saunter" through the park. We found a variety of fall and winter fruits, checked out a rock outcrop that's over a thousand million years old, found some cedar and Bohemian waxwings, and saw signs of some

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00:13:06

A hidden community - mayflies and more in Rattlesnake...

Wild With Nature ·

2022/11/25

The diversity and complexity of the life in a stream is mind-boggling. But it's also something all of us can see and learn about, kids or adults, whatever our level of knowledge. This story is all about the little creatures of Missoula's Rattlesnake Creek - from stoneflies and mayflies to riffle beetles and midges. This was all from just one wintry day in the field with the Watershed Education Network. What did we find? Listen to this story and find out - and then go outside and start getting to

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00:13:21

Hope for a dammed stream - watching Rattlesnake Creek...

Wild With Nature ·

2022/11/20

For thousands of years, Missoula's Rattlesnake Creek supported important spawning populations of bull trout, which would move upstream from the Clark Fork River each fall. But in 1901, the Rattlesnake Creek Dam blocked the spawning fish. Over a century later, in 2020, the City of Missoula removed the now-obsolete dam. This story is about a stream coming back to life, its fish, and the Watershed Education Network - a Missoula-based nonprofit and its avid volunteers who are documenting the stream as

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00:11:03

Attacked by pygmy nuthatches - unusual behavior in...

Wild With Nature ·

2022/11/12

It's common to see mixed-species flocks in the fall and winter in the ponderosa pine forest. Nuthatches, chickadees and woodpeckers travel together, helping each other watch for predators as they forage. But this was something different. On this late October day, we watched the pygmy nuthatches attacking a hairy woodpecker, driving him off. Why were they attacking their supposed flock collaborator? Listen to this episode to find out!

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00:16:39

Atacado por bajopalos enanos: una sorpresa en los pinos

Wild With Nature ·

2022/11/11

Una interacción sorprendente dentro de una bandada mixta de aves—un grupo de bajopalos enanos atacando a un carpintero albinegro mayor—resalta las interacciones complejas e interesantes dentro de las parvadas mixtas, un fenómeno que se ve comúnmente en el bosque conífero. Esta historia, originalmente publicada en inglés en noviembre de 2022, tiene que ver con las fascinantes dinámicas de las bandadas mixtas dentro del bosque de pino ponderosa (Pinus ponderosa) del oeste de Norteamérica. La traduje

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00:12:39

Kochia: what this despised weed does for fall sparrows

Wild With Nature ·

2022/11/07

Kochia (Kochia scoparia): it's a horrible weed for North American farmers. But for fall sparrows, it's a source of food and cover. This is a the story of a Montana kochia patch on a late October day. We found dozens of sparrows in it: four native species, each with their own stories of migration, brought together to gather seeds from this patch of maligned weeds. And where there are so many sparrows, their predators may appear at any time...

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00:09:02

Welcome to Missoula: walking through fall at Kelly...

Wild With Nature ·

2022/11/04

I must look a bit absurd this afternoon as I wade across the Clark Fork River to Missoula, Montana's Kelly Island. I'm loaded down with sound recording equipment, waders, binoculars, and lots of warm clothing. What started out as a pleasant walk through the end of autumn quickly became an adventure in (trying to) record bird sounds. Listen to learn what I found - and what Kelly Island looks like from a red-tailed hawk’s viewpoint!

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