Tracking Methods: How We Know Where Birds Go
This is Episode 82. It's all about the ways that scientists track the movements of individual birds. The focus of today’s episode is not so much about the behaviors of birds, but about the technologi...
14 Sep 202351min
Sunbirds and Spiderhunters
This is Episode 81. It’s all about birds in the family Nectariniidae. These are the sunbirds and the spiderhunters. If you live in or have gone birding in places like Africa, India, Southeast Asia, o...
17 Aug 202339min
Earthbound: How Birds Become Flightless
This is Episode 80. It's all about flightless birds, and about the evolutionary processes that lead to flightlessness. Flightlessness in birds is, in my opinion, a fascinating scientific topic. And s...
3 Aug 202351min
Red-tailed Hawk
This is Episode 79. It's all about the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). This is one of North America’s most common raptors. We find these birds from sea to shining sea across the continent. The ...
18 Juli 202347min
Parental Care: How Birds Raise Their Young
This is Episode 78 and today we’re doing an overview of parental care in birds. How do birds raise their babies? Parent birds feeding their chicks in a nest is an iconic image. It’s a symbol of the s...
22 Juni 202343min
Seabirds
This is Episode 77. It's an overview of seabirds. Some might call them Oceanic birds or Marine Birds. How do we define what is or isn’t a sea bird? Well, it depends on who you ask. There’s no one de...
9 Juni 20231h 3min
Answers to Your Questions About Birds - Vol 3
In this episode—which is Number 76—I’ll be answering some interesting questions sent to me by my listeners. Questions about birds, of course. The questions in today’s episode came from not just any o...
17 Maj 202336min
Shrikes
This is Episode 75. It’s all about shrikes—birds in the family Laniidae. These are true songbirds—members of the avian suborder Passeri within the order Passeriformes—even though they act (and sort o...
8 Maj 202342min
