Kevin Nguyen is features editor for The Verge, and he joins us to tell the story of a man who spotted the first redwing in Maine and the domino effects that unleashed for avid birders.
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The Fight For Life And Livestock
This hour, we’ll talk about Wildlife Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture charged with protecting livestock – a job that means death to millions of native birds and mammals.
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How Animals Learned To Fly
This hour, we’ll talk about how these animals developed this incredible ability with David Alexander, author of “On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight.”
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Call Of The Wild
This hour, we’ll talk about preserving nature’s soundtrack with the author of Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes.
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A Symbiotic Relationship
Every year, tiny birds known as red knots fly 19,000 miles – from the tip of South America to the Arctic and back.
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Friends Of A Feather
This hour, we’ll talk about how we can better accommodate our winged neighbors with the author of Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife.
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Losing The Passenger Pigeon
We’ll talk this hour about what happened to what was once the most populous bird in the North American sky with naturalist Joel Greenberg.
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