All Pieces for Bird Note
Autumn…and geese fly high overhead in V-formation. But what about that V-formation, angling outward through the sky? This phenomenon — a kind of sy...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
Waterfowl such as this Greater White-fronted Goose have long followed a predictable schedule, flying south in autumn after breeding in the north. B...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
It’s October in Yosemite. Acorn Woodpeckers, Clark’s Nutcrackers, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Mountain Chickadees like this one know it’s time to ...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
What does the Pacific Wren hear in a song? It's a long story. What we hear as a blur of sound, the bird hears as a precise sequence of sounds, the ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Sep 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Collective nouns are a mixture of poetry, alliteration, and description. Victorians often made up names for groups of birds, as a parlor game. Many...
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Today, September 26, 2015, is National Public Lands Day. Comprising nearly 850 million acres of land and 3.5 million square miles of ocean, our pub...
Bought by KMUD
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Who among us hasn’t almost walked into a glass door? Birds though, especially when migrating, run the risk of colliding with reflective glass in ur...
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Parrots are among the smartest of birds. But are they clever enough to know each other by name? Research conducted by ornithologist Karl Berg sugge...
- Added: Aug 28, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The ability to fly seems to define birds. But there are more than 40 species of flightless birds throughout the world — from the Ostrich and Kiwi t...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
The Emperor Penguin is the largest penguin on the planet. It’s also the deepest and longest underwater diver. Biologist Jessica Meir, pictured here...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
How do birds drink? A robin takes a mouthful of water and then tips its head way back to send the water down its gullet. Pigeons are among the few ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Some birds stash unopened seeds for use later. But how do they know which seeds are worth the trouble, before expending the energy to open them? A ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Let’s talk about nests. Every spring, robins build their cup-shaped nests using grass and mud. Orioles weave a hanging sack. It’s hard work, and ye...
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Scientists once believed that Australia’s songbirds — such as this Superb Lyrebird — were the result of lost birds from Asia and Africa colonizing ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 01:45
After hatching, baby robins spend up to 15 days in the nest. By July, many young American Robins have left the nest, or fledged. But they aren't re...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KRPS, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 4
Not only are most orioles eye-catching, but they also rank among the world's most accomplished nest-builders. Female orioles — like the Baltimore O...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jun 29, 2015
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 2
It’s been said that if someone knows only three birds, one of them will be the crow. They’re common, easy to see, and even easier to hear. But crow...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 01:45
This Golden-cheeked Warbler nests only in a Central Texas woodland. Its small breeding range is ever more fragmented by residential development, an...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Brain imaging studies have shown that hearing enjoyable music “lights up” the mesolimbic reward pathway in the human brain. But how does a bird exp...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 01:45
Even though it’s been known for many years that birds spit out caterpillars they find repellent, little research has been devoted to birds’ sense o...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 01:45
