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Living Planet 04/05/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

What’s better: Cotton or polyester? Are you torn over your clothing's environmental impact? From resource-intensive production methods to consumer ...

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Living Planet 03/22/24

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW

What’s better: Contact lenses or glasses? It seems like glasses would be the obvious eco-friendly choice, but not so fast! The answer is both fasci...

Bought by Radio Kansas and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]

BirdNoir: The Wild Tom Turkey

From: BirdNote

In this episode of BirdNoir, the private eye gets a call from H. Jon Benjamin about unusual Wild Turkey behavior. A male turkey (known as a “tom”) ...

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Birding 101: Finding Birds Any Time of Day

From: BirdNote

Morning is a great time for birding – that’s the peak of singing and foraging activity for many species. But it’s not the only time to experience b...

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Beak Meets Seed

From: BirdNote

Birds like finches, chickadees and this Northern Cardinal love sunflower seeds, but each species uses a different strategy to extract the meat. Whe...

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Unlikely Places to Go Birding

From: BirdNote

Birding is often best in the least likely places. At sewage treatment plants, watch for ducks and gulls - and raptors keeping watch over them all. ...

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Claire Wahmanholm: You Can Always Hear the Highway

From: BirdNote

Poet Claire Wahmanholm's work focuses on nature and the environment. As she was walking around a nature preserve north of Chicago, Claire was liste...

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Cactus Wren Nest Orientation

From: BirdNote

Cactus Wrens, which may nest several times between March and September, carefully orient their nests in tune with the season. These bulky twig stru...

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Great Tinamou, Eerie Voice in the Jungle

From: BirdNote

The eerie sound of the Great Tinamou can be heard in the lowland jungle throughout much of Central and South America. Secretive — and almost imposs...

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Hawai‘i as a Model for Conservation

From: BirdNote

With invasive species and climate change, Hawai‘i has experienced so much loss and extinction since Western colonists arrived. But Sam ‘Ohu Gon, th...

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How Cliff Swallows Build a Nest

From: BirdNote

When Cliff Swallows arrive on the breeding grounds in North America, the dirty work begins. The swallows scoop up mud in their beaks and carefully ...

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Creating Bird Habitat at Home

From: BirdNote

One of the biggest threats to birds is the decline in biodiversity due to habitat loss — and the traditional, manicured lawn isn’t helping. Growing...

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The Secret to Singing Like a Cardinal

From: BirdNote

Northern Cardinals have vocal abilities that surpass even the most accomplished human singers. When cardinals sing, they sweep their voices from th...

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Recognizing a Stranded Loon

From: BirdNote

Loons 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 ...

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Aplomado Falcon - Species Recovery in the Works

From: BirdNote

Aplomado Falcons were once widespread residents of the American Southwest, but by the 1950s, they'd disappeared entirely from the region. Loss of h...

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Lee Ann Roripaugh: String of Beads

From: BirdNote

When writer Lee Ann Roripaugh visited the annual staging grounds of Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska, she was in awe of the birds. During their spring m...

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Why a Gorget Glitters

From: BirdNote

Why a Gorget Glitters A hummingbird's brilliant throat feathers are called a "gorget," a term applied in past centuries to the metallic swatch prot...

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How Birds Survived the Asteroid

From: BirdNote

The asteroid that struck the Yucatán 66 million years ago wreaked worldwide ecological damage, spelling the end for most dinosaurs and destroying t...

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White-tailed Hawks on the Texas Coastal Plain

From: BirdNote

The White-tailed Hawk thrives in the grassy plains of the Texas Coastal Plain, where many tropical species reach the northern limit of their ranges...

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Spark Bird: John Kessler and the Music of Birds

From: BirdNote

John Kessler served as BirdNote’s senior producer for over 18 years. But before BirdNote existed, he was recording the sounds of Seattle for public...

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Burrowing Belted Kingfisher

From: BirdNote

The Belted Kingfisher dashes through the air, warning intruders with its rapid-fire, rattling call. In spring, the best places to see Belted Kingfi...

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Aviary: Bird Echolocation to the Rescue

From: BirdNote

In this episode featuring Aviary — the shapeshifting bird superhero — the surprising abilities of birds come in handy when a student gets lost expl...

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Birds Dress for Spring

From: BirdNote

It's spring! And for many birds, a time to look their best to attract a new mate. This American Goldfinch has recently molted. Its old, worn-down f...

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Lyrebirds Shift the Earth

From: BirdNote

Beavers are well known as ecosystem engineers in North America. In Australia, lyrebirds play a big role in shaping their environment when they use ...

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House Wren - Little Brown Dynamo

From: BirdNote

House Wrens dart from perch to perch and sing almost nonstop. They’re one of the most thoroughly studied songbird species. House Wrens nest in cavi...

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