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- Publication Date | Apr 19, 2024Duration | 00:01:45Publication Date | Apr 19, 2024Duration | 00:01:45Northern 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. T...
- Publication Date | Apr 18, 2024Duration | 00:01:45Publication Date | Apr 18, 2024Duration | 00:01:45Loons 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,...
- Publication Date | Apr 17, 2024Duration | 00:01:41Publication Date | Apr 17, 2024Duration | 00:01:41Aplomado Falcons were once widespread residents of the American Southwest, but by the 1950s, they'd disappeared entirely from the region. Loss of habitat, loss of prey, and pesticides all played a role. But in ...
- Publication Date | Apr 16, 2024Duration | 00:08:47Publication Date | Apr 16, 2024Duration | 00:08:47When writer Lee Ann Roripaugh visited the annual staging grounds of Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska, she was in awe of the birds. During their spring migration, hundreds of thousands of cranes roost on sandbars in ...
- Publication Date | Apr 15, 2024Duration | 00:01:45Publication Date | Apr 15, 2024Duration | 00:01:45A hummingbird's brilliant throat feathers are called a "gorget," a term applied in past centuries to the metallic swatch protecting the throat of a knight-in-armor. Light waves reflect and refract off the throa...
- Publication Date | Apr 14, 2024Duration | 00:01:36Publication Date | Apr 14, 2024Duration | 00:01:36The asteroid that struck the Yucatán 66 million years ago wreaked worldwide ecological damage, spelling the end for most dinosaurs and destroying the world’s forests. Yet a few bird-like dinosaur groups made it...
- Publication Date | Apr 13, 2024Duration | 00:01:38Publication Date | Apr 13, 2024Duration | 00:01:38The White-tailed Hawk thrives in the grassy plains of the Texas Coastal Plain, where many tropical species reach the northern limit of their ranges. White-tailed Hawks often hunt by kiting: hovering like a kite...
- Publication Date | Apr 12, 2024Duration | 00:01:45Publication Date | Apr 12, 2024Duration | 00:01:45John Kessler served as BirdNote’s senior producer for over 18 years. But before BirdNote existed, he was recording the sounds of Seattle for public radio station KPLU, now called KNKX. After capturing many of S...
- Publication Date | Apr 11, 2024Duration | 00:01:45Publication Date | Apr 11, 2024Duration | 00:01:45The Belted Kingfisher dashes through the air, warning intruders with its rapid-fire, rattling call. In spring, the best places to see Belted Kingfishers are along sandy banks – they are busy digging burrows, wh...
- Publication Date | Apr 10, 2024Duration | 00:33:34Publication Date | Apr 10, 2024Duration | 00:33:34This episode—which is Number 94— is all about the Avian Digestive System. That’s right, kids, we’re looking at bird guts today!If you’ve ever wondered what happens to a fish swallowed by a kingfisher or what ha...
