On our latest show: Guest Hannah Buschert tells us about an International Women’s Birding Conference in Uganda, and a big birding competition in Israel. Plus, we listen to Avian Audio Postcards from North Carolina and Florida, and the feuding Mike O’Connor and David Clapp try to make nice in a segment of Let’s Ask Mike.
#918 Jan. 22, 2023
On our latest show: Cooper’s Hawks and. Sharp-shinned Hawks — how do they get along? Plus, a bird flu update, and a feisty Featured Feathered Friend. Guest: Eliot Miller.
#907 Oct. 30, 2022
On our latest show, author Joan Strassmann explains the joys of Slow Birding. Plus, we meet a bird with a plume on its pileum, and Mike talks about Rhode Island Reds, and Red-billed Queleas.
#884 May 22, 2022
On Our Latest Show: Birding backpacks in Texas; Buses going electric in Boston; and cool birds nesting in the Talkin’ Birds Garden. Guest: Joy Klumpp.
#858 Nov. 14, 2021
On our latest show: an amazing owl discovery in West Africa; rodenticides vs. birds; and the return of Project Feeder Watch.
#851 Sept. 26, 2021
On Our Latest Show: A favorite bird of Herman Melville; feeding peanuts in the fall; and a Conservation Question about bottled water.
#846 Aug. 22, 2021
On Our Latest Show: An exciting Birding Big Year; a new word for an interesting bird behavior; and Mike tries out a new Bird ID app feature.
#838 June 27, 2021
On Our Latest Show: House Wrens, Habitat Heroes, Duck Stamps, and Summer Tanagers.
#830 May 2, 2021
On Our Latest Show (#830 5/2): Dawn Chorus Day; martins on the move; and a new discovery about how birds keep warm in cold weather.
#799 Sept. 27, 2020
On Our Latest Show: We meet the Great Shearwater; hear about an effort to convince Amazon to cut back on plastic; and talk to Mike O’Connor about peanuts and comfort squirrels.
#795 Aug. 30, 2020
On Our Latest Show (#795 Aug. 30): An 1800 mile trip for a small songbird; an audio postcard from John James Audubon Park; and cardinals that look like tiny vultures.
#743 Sept. 1, 2019
On our latest show: Birding in Chernobyl; Crows eating cheeseburgers; and Cardinals and Blue Jays going bald.
#742 Aug. 25, 2019
On our latest show, we welcome singer/songwriter and avid birder Stephanie Seymour and her new album, “There Are Birds.” Plus, we join the lament about the tragic fires in the Brazilian Amazon, and Mike tells us about the “Feather Atlas.”
#737 July 21, 2019
On our latest show: More good California Condor news; another bird gets some international TV coverage; Bald Eagles raising a Red-tailed Hawk; and how birds cope with the heat.
#646 Oct. 15, 2017
On our latest show: We meet the Lapland Longspur; we talk with Dr. Steve Kress about threats to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; and we hear a listener’s ideas about feeding peanuts to our backyard birds.
#638 Aug. 20, 2017
On our latest show: Internationally known ornithologist Dr. Dan Klem talks about his work to save birds from window crashes; we meet another misnamed warbler; and Mike says, Let them eat peanuts.
#634 July 23, 2017
On our latest show: the impressive, if scary, Black Vulture; birdwatching at the mall; and some good conservation news from California.
#630 June 25, 2017
On our latest show: weed for your woodpeckers; in defense of the Blue Jay; and kids solving avian mysteries with Bird Sleuth.
#603 Dec. 11, 2016
On today's show: What's really going on out there at your bird feeders? And, what are the best gifts for the birders on your list? We have some answers!
#598 Nov. 6, 2016
On our latest show: The bird that (almost) never lands; the incredible nature sounds of the Macaulay Library; and North America's feistiest bird.