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Indigenous Water Justice

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2025/08/13

Host Billy Almon speaks with Indigenous water scientist, legal scholar and advocate Dr. Kelsey Leonard. Kelsey incorporates both her Indigenous knowledge and practices along with her western science studies to advocate for a better world for us all. From the importance of birds to Indigenous

Las charas azules de Brooklyn

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2025/08/12

Prospect Park, en Brooklyn, abarca más de 200 hectáreas –en su mayoría cubiertas de árboles. Una especie de ave que vive en este parque es la bellísima chara azul ( Cyanocitta cristata), que anida, busca alimento y duerme en los árboles. En el este de los Estados Unidos, puedes invitar a las charas

Birding 101: Don’t Forget to Look Down!

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2025/08/11

If you’re trying to spot a bird, you should look up — right? While it’s true that there are many beautiful birds to see in the sky, plenty of species are easier to find by keeping your eyes and ears to the ground. You may encounter towhees using their powerful feet to kick up leaf litter beneath

Which Jay Was That?

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2025/08/10

The Steller's Jay is a jay... and it's blue. But it's not a true Blue Jay with a capital "B." The bona fide Blue Jay is primarily a bird of eastern North America. Blue Jays and the Steller's Jays have similarly raucous personalities. Like their larger cousins, the crows, ravens, and magpies, they

Night Voices of Summer

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2025/08/09

At the close of a summer day, the songbirds go silent. As if on cue, the birds of the night make their voices known. In an Eastern woodland, the eerie trills and whinnies of an Eastern Screech-Owl are among the first sounds of the night. Meanwhile, as night falls west of the Rockies, a Western

Ross’s Gull: An Arctic Wonder

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2025/08/08

The Ross’s Gull is a dainty seabird that’s rarely found south of the High Arctic. Though their bodies are mostly gray, their breast feathers and underparts glow a satiny pink thanks to pigments from the marine crustaceans they pluck from the ocean’s surface. Every so often, a Ross’s Gull drifts into

August Molt

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2025/08/07

By August, many birds have just completed the intense rigors of nesting and raising young and now undergo a complete molt. Molt is a cyclic process of feather growth. As new feathers grow in, they push the old ones out. Why molt? Because feathers wear out. Songbirds that migrate long distances need

Restoration Ecology: The Birds and the Trees

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2025/08/06

Meet your co-host, Anika Hazra! Anika is a former restoration ecologist turned science communicator, and in this episode, she’s teaching us all about her past work life. Restoration ecology is a less popular method of conservation that holds a lot of potential and Anika walks us through restoration

Voces y vocabularios: La exquisita melodía del zorzal

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2025/08/05

Algunos consideran que el canto del zorzal moteado ( Hylocichla mustelina) es el más hermoso de América del Norte. Otros escogen el canto del zorzal cola canela ( Catharus guttatus). Y hay quienes prefieren el canto del zorzal de anteojos ( Catharus ustulatus). ¿Cómo logran estos zorzales, como el

Delhi’s Jain Bird Hospital is Free

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2025/08/04

At Charity Birds Hospital, a small staff takes care of approximately 2,600 birds at a time, providing antibiotics, medicine, food, and a safe place to rest for injured or sick birds. The hospital is run entirely on donations, mostly from the Jain community, which follows the philosophy, “live and

Canyon Spectacle - Swakane Canyon

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2025/08/03

Canyons, whether large or small, can host a spectacular variety of birds! Consider Swakane Canyon, in central Washington State. It cuts west from the Columbia River into the Entiat Mountains for nine miles, while gaining nearly 3,000 feet. Steep slopes wall in the canyon floor, several hundred yards

A Drive Along a Bar Ditch

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2025/08/02

In the rural Southeast, roadside ditches – known as “bar ditches” – carry on for miles. The term bar ditch probably comes from their construction, when dirt was "borrowed" to build up the road. The ditches are full of water and full of life, these narrow wetlands. Herons stalk the shallow water

Biomimicry with Billy Almon

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2025/08/01

For as long as humans have been solving problems, we’ve looked to nature for inspiration. In some cases we’ve even imitated other organisms in our inventions through a process called biomimicry, says Billy Almon, a futurist and biomimicry expert. Billy discusses how the Wright brothers modeled their

Dreading the Terns

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2025/07/31

In June of 2022, Adé Ben-Salahuddin worked as a volunteer research assistant on a tiny island off the coast of Maine at a Common Tern breeding colony. Every once in a while, the colony would suddenly go dead silent as all the adult terns took flight and dove over the rocky cliffs, returning soon

Biomimicry, Birds and Beyond with adrienne maree brown

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2025/07/30

On this season premiere episode, meet your new co-host, Billy Almon! Billy is an astrobiofuturist (which you’ll hear more about later), and one of his passions and expertise is in the art of biomimicry. Billy lays out the history of this ancient process, how it's been instrumental in connecting

Patos que silban

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2025/07/29

Silbando mientras vuelan, los pijijes alas blanca ( Dendrocygna autumnalis) – o patos silbones de ala blanca – son aves acuáticas espectaculares, con picos y patas de color rosa brillante, cuello y lomo castaños, y partes inferiores negras. Aunque la mayoría de los patos silbadores viven en los

Breeding Birds of the Northern Great Plains

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2025/07/28

Migratory birds connect the Northern Plains with many parts of the Western Hemisphere. Lark Buntings, Baird’s Sparrows, Upland Sandpipers, and many other birds winter from Central to southern South America. But their reproduction depends on the bounty of the prairie spring. Disrupting any part of

The Secretarybird: Eagle on Stilts

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2025/07/27

The Secretarybird of sub-Saharan Africa looks like a slim eagle set on the long, slender legs of a crane. Secretarybirds can fly but prefer to hunt on foot, walking over 20 miles a day and dispatching their prey with powerful kicks of their taloned feet.

On the Trail of the Bobwhite

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2025/07/26

The Northern Bobwhite — many call it just the Bobwhite — has an unmistakable call, which is also the source of its name. The species is native to the US, east of the Rockies. But Northern Bobwhites have been released into the wild as game birds in many locales in the West.

Hummingbirds Help Mites Hitch a Ride

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2025/07/25

Mites are tiny critters related to spiders and ticks. Because they are typically no larger than a grain of salt, many mite species rely on larger animals to survive. In the neotropics, hummingbird flower mites freeload off an existing partnership. This group of mites feeds on nectar and pollen, but

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