Friday, June 30, 2017

Review: Song Sleuth, a new app for identifying bird sounds

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Two or three decades ago, I came up with an imaginary product, Earth Angel Bird Identification Earrings. Shaped like little parabolas, th...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Review: Merlin, a simple app to identify birds

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Back in the ‘90s, this radio program introduced Earth Angel Bird Identification Binoculars. “With the teenie-tiny microchip embedded in t...
Monday, June 26, 2017

Where have all the insects gone?

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I took my first ornithology class at the Kellogg Biological Station, near Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the summer of 1975, and Russ took a wat...

Where are the Tree Swallows?

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I just got an email from one of my friends, Jan Keough, who lives on a lake north of Duluth. Here it is, the last week of June, and she h...
Friday, June 23, 2017

The last moments of a dying nuthatch

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This was written on May 9, 2001, and was the transcript for this For the Birds radio program . I’m sitting at my computer typing with ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Of Bald and Toupee-Wearing Birds

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Feathers are one of the most wonderful adaptations in the animal world. They’re considered the most complex integumentary structures fou...
Monday, June 19, 2017

My sound recording equipment

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Right after my last program aired on KUMD, about my sound recordings, I got a couple of emails asking what recording equipment I use. I c...

Duck and Goose Nurseries or Crèches

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When I was living in Madison, Wisconsin, in the 1970s, I used to love seeing baby ducks. Ducklings are so cosmically innocent, their big...