Laura Erickson's For the Birds
By Laura Erickson
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"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.
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The Colors of Everyday Life
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Harris's Hawk and the Movie "Hamnet"
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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For the Birds Retrospective, Part 3: Things start to get silly.
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Apr 03, 2026 |
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For the Birds Retrospective Part 2-Radio?!
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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For the Birds Retrospective: Part 1, seeking my niche in the Duluth birding community
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Baker's Blue Jay Blend: Not Just for Blue Jays Anymore
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Baker's Blue Jay Video Games
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Testimonials about Earth Angel Bird Identification Binoculars
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Where, Oh Where
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Jim Baker's Jaybelline Eye Cosmetics
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Turn Around
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Jim Baker's Blue Jay Board Games
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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OLDIE: Jim Baker's Oil of Ojay
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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The Brown Creeper Who Went to School
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Brown Creepers
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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The costs of AI and the "Cloud" (Revised and updated)
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Mar 20, 2026 |
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Our Growing Reliance on Big Data
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Of Baseball, Curling, and Boreal Owls
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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The Green Green Grass of Golf
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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The Green Green Grass of Home
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Monofilament
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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"Set of Years"
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Bucephala!!
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Superb Owl Sunday 2026
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Hummingbirds Pre-History
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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Hummingbirds: The Big Picture
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Blue-gray Tanager!
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Cocks-of-the-rock!!
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Chickadee Strong
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Enough is enough
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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The Day of the Condor, Part 2
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Day of the Condor, Part 1
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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2026: The Year of the Pigeon?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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The Darkling Thrush
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Homecoming
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Ecuador!
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Katie's Birthday
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Ecuador!
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Energy Star
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Fakery
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Big Data
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Book Review: New edition of the National Geographic guide
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Another October Rarity: A Cattle Egret!
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Dealing with the sun, insects, difficult terrain, and heavy equipment
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Staying Healthy for Birding at 73
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Keeping my brain sharp at 73
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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A Black Phoebe in Minnesota?!
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Chestnut-collared Longspur in Two Harbors!
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Longspurs!
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Sun Parakeet
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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My Top Bird Guides: Leon Moore
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 4: Finding Saw-whet Owls
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 3
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 2
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 1
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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How Do Nocturnal Migrants Avoid Collisions?
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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The One That Got Away, and the One That Didn't (Just Barely)
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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Nocturnal Migration: Navigation
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Nocturnal Migration: Why?
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Sixty Years
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Summer of the Flickers
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Why do birds migrate?
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Armchair Lifers
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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August Bird Movements
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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A Little Boy Turns Five
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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The Omega and the Alpha
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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The Bold and the Beautiful
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Beyond Florida: Everything Everywhere All at Once
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Florida: Why I Love It, and Why I'm Boycotting It, Part I
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Sunbathing, Blue Jay Style
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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WHOA! I'm quoted in a special edition of LIFE!!!
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket, Part 2
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket, Part 1
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Biological Realities, Part 2
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Biological Realities, Part 1
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Dog fur controversy?
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Setting out pet fur for birds is dangerous.
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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My Boyfriend's Back!
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Darkening Skies
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Out of the ashes...
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Hey! My eyes are up here!
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May 30, 2025 |
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Magnificent Frigatebird
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May 27, 2025 |
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Magnificent Frigatebird!
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May 22, 2025 |
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Wealth
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May 14, 2025 |
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The Dry Tortugas!
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Pelicans of Chamber's Grove
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Earth Day 2025
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Through a Glass, Darkly
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Guyana!
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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The Dry Tortugas!
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Birding with a Camera
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Emerging from a Numerical Haze
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Woodcocks!
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Updates from Earth Angel and Jim Baker
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Cuban Woodpeckers
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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The Tiniest Bird in the Universe
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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What to do if you find a dead bird in your yard
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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Bird feeding recommendations during the bird flu outbreak
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Bird Flu Update
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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The Most Adorable Bird in the Universe
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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A Personal Ray of Hope
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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My 2025 Chickadee Pilgrimage
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Cuba!!!
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Explosions R Us
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Superb Owl Sunday 2025
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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The Best Pine Siskin EVER!
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Pine Siskins!
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Bird Flu Update
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Another Owl Adventure
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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The Completely Made-Up Story of Frederick the Nighthawk and Sneakers the Blue Jay
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Staying Healthy While Birding in Other Countries
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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BB Update
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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A Great American President
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Owl Irruption
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Year of the Chickadee, Part 3
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Year of the Chickadee, Part 2
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Year of the Chickadee, Part 1
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Empathy: An Innate Quality
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Dec 20, 2024 |
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Learning Empathy from the Best
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Premature obituaries
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Exit, pursued by a Cooper's Hawk
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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No Way to Stop It
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Frigid Temperatures
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Albatrosses
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Thanksgiving 2024
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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In Retrospect: The BP oil spill. Part 5b--Complicity
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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In Retrospect: The BP oil spill. Part 5--Staying alive to fight another day
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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In Retrospect: The BP oil spill, Part 4
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 3
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 2
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Look to the Chickadees
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 1
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Standing up to them
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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You're not getting older, you're getting better--oh, wait--you ARE getting older
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Transmission Lines, Part 2
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Transmission Lines
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Going to a Scientific Meeting in 2024
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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Going to Scientific Meetings in Past Decades
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Emergency Responders: Blue Jay Style
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Mistakes R Us
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Oops! Correcting the record
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Stokes Guide to Finches: Hawaiian Honeycreepers
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Stokes Guide to Finches: Evening Grosbeaks
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Stokes Guide to Finches: Goldfinches
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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For the Finches: How Lillian Stokes and Matt Young connected thanks to Red Crossbills
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Book Review: The Stokes Guide to Finches
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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American Golden-Plover
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Blue Jay migration
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Birdbaths!
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Nighthawks!
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Peabody Street Update: The Good News and the Bad News
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Hummingbirds!
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Joan Brigham at 100!
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 5B: Why Vilify Rachel Carson?
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Aug 16, 2024 |
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Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 5 A: The battle on the DDT front
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Birds Off a Feather
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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The bear necessities and other close encounters of the mammalian kind
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 4: The Empire Strikes Back
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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In the Catbird's Seat: A momentary diversion from more important matters
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 3: A New Hope
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 2: Pollution—A Way of Life
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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When a Stranger Knocks (A momentary diversion from more important matters)
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections Part 1: How Bad It Used to Be
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Hoarding
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Crow vocalizations and good news
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Crows and the Unknowable
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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My Backyard Habitat
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Flashcards
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Veery
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Superiority
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Golden-winged Warblers
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Connecticut Warbler
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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A Tale of Two Endangered Species: Bachman's and Kirtland's Warblers
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Looking for Wood Thrushes
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Loggerhead Shrike!
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Crested Caracara in Wisconsin
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Pileated Update
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May 31, 2024 |
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Scarlet Tanagers!
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May 30, 2024 |
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Review: The Breeding Birds of Minnesota
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May 29, 2024 |
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Red-headed Woodpecker!
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May 28, 2024 |
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Katie's Boo Jays
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May 24, 2024 |
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Merlin: All Wizards Have Limitations
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May 22, 2024 |
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Jelly Redux
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May 21, 2024 |
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Review: Kenn Kaufman's new book, The Birds that Audubon Missed. Part 2
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May 17, 2024 |
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Kenn Kaufman's new book: The Birds That Audubon Missed, Part 1
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May 16, 2024 |
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Lincoln's Sparrow
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May 14, 2024 |
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My favorite spring arrivals
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May 07, 2024 |
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Rat Poison
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May 03, 2024 |
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May Day!
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May 02, 2024 |
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Don't Count Your Chickens...
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May 01, 2024 |
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Here come the chickens!
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The Sapsucker–Hummingbird Connection
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Hawaii before chickens and humans arrived
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Chickens, Part 1.5: Kin of Chickens
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Chickens, Part I: Domestication
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Solar Eclipse!
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Trip Guilt and Guilt Trips
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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Redpolls!
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Jim Baker Announces a New Product!
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Flaco: Post Mortem
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Stopping by Peabody Street on a Snowy Morning
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Separation Anxiety
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Every Day Is a Gift, Part 3: The Big Island
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Every Day Is a Gift, Part 2: Kauaʻi
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Every Day Is a Gift, Part I: Oahu
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Our Changing World
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Why I Live in Duluth
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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February Update
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Death of a New York Celebrity: Flaco the Owl
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Mission Accomplished: Fieldfare!!
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Chickadee with a Deformed Bill
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Fieldfare: The One That Got Away
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Preparing for a Birding Trip
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Superb Owl Sunday
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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A Matter of Balance
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Warm Winter
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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So it goes....
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Brooding over Cicadas
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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More about the Golden-winged Warbler
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Warblers!
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Ancient Murrelets!
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Starting 2024 Right!
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Happy 2024
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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A Promising New Year
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Birding on a Warmish December Day
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Birding on a Cold November Day
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Toddler-Approved Bird Books, Part 3b
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Toddler-Approved Bird Books, Part 3a
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Florida Scrub-Jays, Part 3: To Feed or Not to Feed
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Thanksgiving 2023
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Let's Talk Turkey
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Toddler-Approved Books, Part 2: Identification Guides
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Nov 17, 2023 |
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Toddler-Approved Bird Books
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Scrub Jays: From one species to four
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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The Healing Grace of Birds
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Florida Scrub-Jay, Part 2b: To Know Them Is to Love Them
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Florida Scrub-Jay, Part 2a: To Know Them Is to Love Them
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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What's in a Name?
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Birding Ethics
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Our Responsibilities in Old Age
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Florida Scrub-Jays, Part I
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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When Plans Go Awry
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Flamingo Road, Part 2
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Flamingo Road, Part I
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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When Numbers Get Serious
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Odd-tober!
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Drama on Peabody Street
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Jim Baker Comments on New Hawk Ridge Record
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Late Outlier Hummingbirds
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Sep 25, 2023 |