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
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Loggerhead Shrike!
05/06/2024 Duración: 05minA cute little predator on the Endangered Species List for Wisconsin and Minnesota has been turning up here and there in both states this spring.
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Crested Caracara in Wisconsin
04/06/2024 Duración: 05minOn Saturday, Laura went to Ashland County, Wisconsin, to look at a very lost tropical falcon, a Crested Caracara.
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Scarlet Tanagers!
30/05/2024 Duración: 04minAn unprecedented number of Scarlet Tanagers turned up on Peabody Street this year, and Laura was thrilled.
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Review: The Breeding Birds of Minnesota
29/05/2024 Duración: 05minA beautiful, useful, and engaging tour de force.
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Red-headed Woodpecker!
28/05/2024 Duración: 05minIt's a red-letter day when we see one of the prettiest woodpeckers of all.
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Katie's Boo Jays
24/05/2024 Duración: 05minLaura recalls the birds who inspired her baby daughter's second word.
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Merlin: All Wizards Have Limitations
22/05/2024 Duración: 05minThe Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created two extremely useful apps for birders. Merlin is wonderful and useful, but far from perfect.
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Jelly Redux
21/05/2024 Duración: 07minLaura 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.)
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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.
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Kenn Kaufman's new book: The Birds That Audubon Missed, Part 1
16/05/2024 Duración: 05minKenn 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.
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Lincoln's Sparrow
14/05/2024 Duración: 06minLaura's been in love with a pretty little sparrow since she first saw it in 1977.
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My favorite spring arrivals
07/05/2024 Duración: 05minWith birds, as with her children, Laura has trouble picking a favorite.
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Rat Poison
03/05/2024 Duración: 07minYet more owls have died, this time in Chicago, from rat poison.
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Don't Count Your Chickens...
01/05/2024 Duración: 05minChickens 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.
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Here come the chickens!
18/04/2024 Duración: 05minIf chickens found their way to Hawaii on their own, things would have worked out okay for everyone. Unfortunately, they brought humans along, too.
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The Sapsucker–Hummingbird Connection
17/04/2024 Duración: 05minDuring spring migration, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds usually arrive a couple of weeks after Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers do, for a very good reason.
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Hawaii before chickens and humans arrived
16/04/2024 Duración: 05minMillions of years ago, Hawaii was off to a rocky start.
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Chickens, Part 1.5: Kin of Chickens
11/04/2024 Duración: 05minThe rules of counting non-native birds are not always consistent.