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Birdchick Podcast #234 Eagles and Puffins
Puffins beaks are amazing...and you can attract them with window feeders?There's a red warbler in Arizona!Gulls get a guy banned from a hotel for 17 years.New book: Does It Fart? Also, help out Laura Erickson.If guys flirted like birds...and vice ver
Birdchick Podcast #233 Migration! Laura Erickson, Bird Farts
Birdcast has live migration maps this spring!A hot mess of an article about birds, National Parks and climate change.Urban barred owls give very few ducks.The closing of the Lodge and Spa in Pico Bonito National Park is covered in a bit more detail over a
Birdchick Podcast #232
Oxpeckers sleeping around giraffe "armpits" and testicles. Thanks to searching for poop on NASA images, we found some penguins. Video of red kites at Gigrin Farm. Here's the naturalist dream date. eBird is keeping some locations of
Birdchick Podcast #231: Sharon gets the number wrong
Beast Box--make your own dj poppin' sounds with actual wildlife calls. What? A saw-whet owl band in a barred owl pellet. The O RLY owl is 17. The Internet is old. Sparrow Swap for bluebird trail runners. Godwit Days. FYI There's a
Birdchick Podcast #230: Brain Damage and Messy Relationships
What real field biologist resumes should include.Ovenbird vs a garter snake. OMG those birds are surprisingly badass. Morning Bird Walk Bingo!Woodpeckers get brain damage.Blind goose involved with swans dies. Nigel the gannet dies next to his st
Birdchick Podcast #229 We're Back!
It's winter so of course we talking about owls. Here's an article that I did for Audubon with tips on how to search for Northern Saw-whet Owls. The politics of reporting owls...there are definitely more northern species of owls in the northern US t
Birdchick Podcast #228 Hurricanes and Eagle Optics
It's the end of an era, folks. Eagle Optics is closing its doors at the end of the year. There's some cool stuff over at Big Day Birding. Great article about what different birds species do during a hurricane. Could captive breeding help sa
Birdchick Podcast #227 My Husband is Surprisingly Supportive
The plight of young conservationists seeking an actual job. Hawk + Snake + power lines = frowney face. Map of what people observing birds noticed during the solar eclipse. You should totally listen to the American Birding Association Podcas
Birdchick Podcast #226 Paddle Birding, Gulls, Spencer Pratt
A study attempts to categorize birders. Do you fit one of the four categories?Listen to Alec Baldwin learn about birding from Charles Munn on Here's the Thing. Spencer Pratt is the hummingbird hero we need right now. If you purchase this print b
Podcast #225 Senior Passes and the Border Wall
So...we recorded this over a week ago and forgot to post it. Whoops.The first half hour is a rant on the Senior Pass price increase for federal parks. If you really want one at the old rate, order it at YourPassNow.com before August 28. The second is