Sandpipers
Birds in the family Scolopacidae include all the world’s sandpipers and birds such as godwits, curlews, snipes, dowitchers, willets, stints, and more. We know these as familiar ‘shorebirds.’ They hau...
11 Apr 202146min
Bird Intelligence
Our understanding of bird brains and intelligence has grown tremendously in the last couple decades. Thanks to countless scientific studies, we now know that many bird species are highly intelligent....
28 Mar 202147min
Vermilion Flycatcher
The Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus) is a charming bird found in the arid southwest of the United States, as well as in Mexico and down to southern South America. This bright red flycatcher...
7 Mar 202119min
Cats vs Birds
Join Ivan as he wades into the conservation quagmire surrounding house cats and their effects on wild birds. First, we’ll look at the status of house cat and feral cat populations around the world....
24 Feb 202137min
Finches
All about the ‘true’ finches, the species belonging to the family Fringillidae. These small songbirds are found in many places around the world. Most of them specialize in eating seeds. Not every bi...
5 Feb 202154min
How Birds Survive in Winter
Winter can be a cold, dark time when food is scarce. Birds fight to stay alive during this season by using a variety of behavioral and physiological adaptations. Many of these are the same things you ...
24 Jan 202139min
Kingfishers
Kingfishers—all the birds in the family Alcedinidae—are the focus of this episode. There are many species of these charismatic birds living across the world. Learn about their key features, global di...
10 Jan 202146min
5 Awesome Things We Learned About Birds in 2020
Despite much of human civilization grinding to a halt in 2020, research on birds continued to be published in scientific journals. Through this research, we learned many new things about our avian fr...
31 Des 202033min
