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What We Learned About Birds in 2025

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Meadowlarks

All about the world's 8 meadowlark species, birds in the genera Sturnella and Leistes.

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Saving Bird Species From the Brink of Extinction

This episode is about bird species that we almost lost forever, but through conservation actions, we’ve kept them from disappearing.

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Quails of the New World (Family: Odontophoridae)

New World Quails are shy, ground-dwelling birds with camouflage plumage and lots of personality.

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Tracking Methods: How We Know Where Birds Go

Technologies and methods that help scientists reveal the unique paths traveled by individual birds

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Sunbirds and Spiderhunters

This episode is all about birds in the family Nectariniidae. These are the sunbirds and the spiderhunters.

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Earthbound: How Birds Become Flightless

The wonderful diversity of flightless bird species, their evolution, and their conservation.

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Red-tailed Hawk

In this episode, I cover the key traits of the Red-tailed Hawk, it's diet, and its breeding behaviors.

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Parental Care: How Birds Raise Their Young

An overview of parental care in birds. Cooperation and conflict in how birds protect and feed their chicks.

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Seabirds

An overview of the approximately 300 bird species that live on the open ocean.

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Answers to Your Questions About Birds - Vol. 3

In this episode, I answer some interesting questions sent to me by my listeners.

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