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Birdchick Podcast #244 FREEDOM GLIDERS
A dozen ways you can celebrate the life and legacy of Bill Thompson III.Bald eagles are going crazy by nesting on the ground and dropping trash in people’s yards. Record sandhill crane count in Nebraska. Do you live in one of the top ten most dangerous ci
Birdchick Podcast #243 Grasshopper Sparrow Hot Mess In Florida
That Florida grasshopper sparrow hot mess. Hey, gang, if you missed the great black hawk in Maine…you will still have a chance to see it. Totally ok and understandable to suppress a rarity on private property. Not really ok to announce it in this fashion.
Birdchick Podcast #242 Eagle Trios, Birding for Anxiety
Using birding to help anxiety. This is an interesting perspective of how someone found their way to birdwatching. Please read the latest from Bill Thompson III’s caring bridge site. The man who invented the falcon copulation hat has died. Yes, it’s true.
Birdchick Podcast #241 "H is for Hawk," Wisdom and Turkeys
According to the will of the Patreon I read H is for Hawk. Turkeys are terrorizing Moorhead, MNWisdom the albatross is mating again. Gizmodo has a more colorful headline.
Birdchick Podcast #240 Problematic
Is it ok to call a bird a trollop in a formal presentation? Move over yellow cardinal, you’ve been replaced by the gynandromorph cardinal. White-throated sparrows and the complexity of gender. A king eider shows up in Maine. Birders go crazy and post abou
Birdchick Podcast #238
Birding doesn't always fee inclusive to the LGBTQ community. We are losing Bentsen State Park. Swamp sparrows have possibly always sang the same song.Timing is everything when birds leave the nest. Crow necrophilia. Don't be like
Birdchick Podcast #237 Raccoons, Bill was right...what?
MPR had a racoon. Some Ohio officers do not know how to step aside under a bird nest.Pad Redig from the University of Minnesota's Raptor Center is an amazing man and one of the reasons I moved to Minnesota. There was a raccoon in Minnesota. Ther
Birdchick Podcast #236 The Tadoussac eBird List
From now on birders will ask each other at festivals, "Where were you when you first found out about The Tadoussac eBird List?" Here's a video to give you an idea of the event.Let's face it, bird taxonomy is currently a shit show. Pileated vs Tesla.&
Birdchick Podcast # 235 Owls Being Weird and Laurel/Yanny
Neil Degrasse Tyson needs a hug. Laurel or Yanny...also where it came from. One male great horned owl living with two females.Also some great horned owl raising a red-shouldered hawk chick. Until the tree fell down.