Laura Erickson's For The Birds

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Sinopsis

"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.

Episodios

  • Looking for Wood Thrushes

    11/06/2024 Duración: 04min

    Last Tuesday, Laura and her friend Bernie found a Wood Thrush at one of Laura's favorite birding spots in Duluth. She hopes it attracts, or already has, a mate. (The [blogpost](https://open.substack.com/pub/lauraerickson/p/searching-for-wood-thrushes?r=aaa7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true) for this program is much longer and more fleshed out, with lots of photos.)

  • Loggerhead Shrike!

    05/06/2024 Duración: 05min

    A cute little predator on the Endangered Species List for Wisconsin and Minnesota has been turning up here and there in both states this spring.

  • Crested Caracara in Wisconsin

    04/06/2024 Duración: 05min

    On Saturday, Laura went to Ashland County, Wisconsin, to look at a very lost tropical falcon, a Crested Caracara.

  • Pileated Update

    31/05/2024 Duración: 06min

    BB's fine but somebody isn't.

  • Scarlet Tanagers!

    30/05/2024 Duración: 04min

    An unprecedented number of Scarlet Tanagers turned up on Peabody Street this year, and Laura was thrilled.

  • Review: The Breeding Birds of Minnesota

    29/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    A beautiful, useful, and engaging tour de force.

  • Red-headed Woodpecker!

    28/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    It's a red-letter day when we see one of the prettiest woodpeckers of all.

  • Katie's Boo Jays

    24/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    Laura recalls the birds who inspired her baby daughter's second word.

  • Merlin: All Wizards Have Limitations

    22/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created two extremely useful apps for birders. Merlin is wonderful and useful, but far from perfect.

  • Jelly Redux

    21/05/2024 Duración: 07min

    Laura sparked unprecedented anger in a listener last week because of a program and blogpost from 2007. (All my blogpost/transcripts have photos, and some are longer than the program itself, but this program's linked transcript/blogpost has a *lot* more information than I could include in the program, along with pertinent photos and a video.)

  • Review: Kenn Kaufman's new book, The Birds that Audubon Missed. Part 2

    17/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    *The Birds That Audubon Missed* by Kenn Kaufman is a clear-eyed and surprisingly exciting portrait of a time and place that have long ago disappeared, and an important and timely book as well. Laura can’t recommend it highly enough.

  • Kenn Kaufman's new book: The Birds That Audubon Missed, Part 1

    16/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    Kenn Kaufman has written an important new book. Laura begins her review by talking about her own personal feelings about Audubon and his work before Kaufman's rich and enlightening book gave her a broader, more truthful picture of a deeply flawed yet important human being and his contemporaries.

  • Lincoln's Sparrow

    14/05/2024 Duración: 06min

    Laura's been in love with a pretty little sparrow since she first saw it in 1977.

  • My favorite spring arrivals

    07/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    With birds, as with her children, Laura has trouble picking a favorite.

  • Rat Poison

    03/05/2024 Duración: 07min

    Yet more owls have died, this time in Chicago, from rat poison.

  • May Day!

    02/05/2024 Duración: 04min

    Not much is happening in Laura's yard yet, but things will be popping within the coming week or two. (Lang Elliott recorded the Carolina Wren's rolling trill. Laura recorded the wren's song.)

  • Don't Count Your Chickens...

    01/05/2024 Duración: 05min

    Chickens haven't established themselves as wild, feral birds in most places in the world, but they're still the most abundant bird on the planet.

  • Here come the chickens!

    18/04/2024 Duración: 05min

    If chickens found their way to Hawaii on their own, things would have worked out okay for everyone. Unfortunately, they brought humans along, too.

  • The Sapsucker–Hummingbird Connection

    17/04/2024 Duración: 05min

    During spring migration, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds usually arrive a couple of weeks after Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers do, for a very good reason.

  • Hawaii before chickens and humans arrived

    16/04/2024 Duración: 05min

    Millions of years ago, Hawaii was off to a rocky start.

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