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Learning to Sing
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Learning to vocalize is a surprisingly unusual ability in the animal world. How do young songbirds master their musical talents?

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Our Might Oaks
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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The 21 oak species in our region assume many forms and are survivors of the last Ice Age. Who are these tenacious trees? And what animals depend on...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Triops
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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These tiny crustaceans come to life for just a short while during our rainy season, but their eggs can wait decades to hatch and ride the wind for ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Attracting Pollinators
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Animals and insects aren’t being altruistic when they pollinate a plant. So how do plants attract and reward them for their services?

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pyrrhuloxia
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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With its showy red crest and golden bill, the pyrrhuloxia shouldn't be confused with its more flamboyant cardinal relative. What makes this desert ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Turkey Vultures
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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They eat roadkill. They urinate on themselves. When frightened, they vomit. The turkey vultures have returned. Why does this harbinger of spring ha...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Soapberry
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Trees seem scarce in the Chihuahuan Desert. But soapberry trees manage to thrive throughout our region and can even be used to wash your hands. How...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Mimms Ranch
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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On Mimms Ranch outside Marfa, the Dixon Water Foundation is using some surprising tools to improve a grassland’s ability to absorb water: cattle an...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Giant Ground Sloths
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Skeletal remains of a Shasta ground sloth., Credit: The Jesse Earl Hyde Collection, Case Western Reserve University
Ground sloths weren’t cute, cuddly tree-dwellers like sloths today. They weighed 500 pounds and stood nine-feet tall. Who were these Ice Age creatu...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Good News Bears
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A black bear in Big Bend National Park., Credit: Cindy Callahan, courtesy of National Park Service
After an absence of nearly fifty years, black bears have been making a remarkable comeback in Big Bend National Park. Why did they return? And what...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
Pronghorn in Decline
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Pronghorn on the Marfa Plateau. , Credit: Mike Sullins/TPWD
Pronghorn have perfect camouflage, unmatched speed, and can spot a predator miles away. But that hasn't protected them from a mysterious population...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pollen
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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As all hay-fever sufferers will tell you, this has been a bad year for pollen. What's all that pollen good for besides making you miserable?

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Dexter National Fish Hatchery
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Fish tanks inside Dexter National Fish Hatchery., Credit: Megan Wilde
Without the Dexter National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center, several desert fish species might have disappeared from the Chihuahuan Desert regi...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Bosque del Apache
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A sandhill crane flies over Bosque del Apache., Credit: Megan Wilde
Every winter, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico hosts a spectacular congregation of snow geese and sandhill cranes. Why do t...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
When Sheep Fly
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Biologists attach a tracking collar to a blindfolded desert bighorn sheep. , Credit: Kamila Forson
When Elephant Mountain gets too crowded with desert bighorn sheep, and it’s time to start a new herd in Big Bend Ranch State Park, how do you move ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coyotes
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Writer J. Frank Dobie wished he could be sung to sleep and woken by a coyote chorus every day. But not everyone regards coyotes so amiably. Who are...

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  • Added: Jan 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Cedar Waxwings
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Winter brings hordes of handsome cedar waxwings to our region, where they’ll throng our junipers and devour every berry they can find. What makes t...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Pine Dining
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
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Pine trees are much more than symbols of Christmas and sources of timber. They serve up a smorgasbord for many wild animals and insects. Who dines ...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Coping with Aridity
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Horned lizards get water from the ants they eat., Credit: Cathryn Hoyt
Animals have adapted to surviving with little or no water during the Chihuahuan Desert's dry winter and spring. How do they do it?

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Troubled Rio Grande
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Giant cane dominates the muddy banks of the Rio Grande in many places., Credit: Megan Wilde
Sediment is slowly choking the Rio Grande in the Big Bend region of Texas, causing more frequent floods and making it easier for invasive plants to...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
"Memory of Trees" with MN Author Gayla Marty
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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What was the land like where you grew up? What memories do you have of the place of your childhood? MN author Gayla Marty talked with Heidi on Real...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 20:00
Texas' Aspens
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: Quaking aspens in Big Bend National Park, Credit: James Zech
With their towering white trunks and fluttering leaves, quaking aspens are icons of the Rocky Mountains. Yet every fall, aspen stands paint West Te...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Return of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow
From: Marfa Public Radio
Series: Nature Notes
Caption: A Rio Grande silvery minnow, Credit: Aimee Roberson/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
These tiny fish disappeared from Texas almost fifty years ago. But today, silvery minnows swim again in the Big Bend reach of the Rio Grande. What ...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2010
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Phenology Show with John Latimer
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Phenology Show
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John Latimer shares his observations of the change of nature in our lives.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2010
  • Length: 16:14
Commentator Aaron Brown on Survival
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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Survival is a general human trait, but living in Northern MN reminds us we just barely surviving - and the 3 good months are when bears are hungry...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1