On our latest show: A rare sighting in an Audio Postcard from Arkansas; a preview of the big San Diego Bird Festival; and Mike O’Connor’s thoughts about hummingbirds up north in January.
##997 Aug. 4, 2024
On our latest show: A new plan to save species from extinction; The “Hot Rock” sparrow; and hummingbird feeding fact and fiction.
##996 July 28, 2024
On our latest show (#996 July 28): a salute to the mighty kingbirds; how hummingbirds avoid collisions; and good news and bad news as we wrap up Plastic-free July.
#987 May 26, 2024
On our latest show: Chris Harbard tells us about the upcoming Southwest Wings Birding and Nature Festival; we learn about an under-appreciated mimic; we listen to audio postcards from Ohio and Georgia; and Mike O’Connor busts some myths about backyard bird feeding.
#953 Sept. 24, 2023
On our latest show: A feisty hummer from the far west; the new Project FeederWatch; and our Mike O’Connor with some good puffin talk.
#949 Aug. 27, 2023
On our latest show: Help for the Akikiki in Hawaii; our Big Year friend heads for Alaska; audio postcards from Canada and California; and hummingbird feeder advice.
#948 Aug. 20, 2023
On our latest show: Audio Postcards from the north, the south, and way to the east; plirding in the Sunshine State; and a small bird named for a very large mammal.
#906 Oct. 23, 2022
On our latest show: 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight with Peter Cavanagh; a hummingbird-filled Audio Postcard; and Mike gives a thumbs down to mothballs.
#895 Aug. 7, 2022
On our latest show: An audio postcard from Rocky Mountain National Park; a big birding festival in Arizona; best food for hummingbirds; and help for migratory monarchs.
#883 May 15, 2022
On Our Latest Show: Cool birds by the Mexican border; plirding in North Carolina; and a Mike O’Connor experiment with a fake owl and a plateful of peanuts.
#847 Aug. 29, 2021
On Our Latest Show: How birds keep cool in late summer heat; how to keep bees out of hummingbird feeders; and how ornithologists found a new bird species.
#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.
#836 June 13, 2021
On Our Latest Show: The tea-drinking “Ground Robin”; Pride Month in the birding world; and hummingbird feeding advice from backyard birding guru Mike O’Connor.
#797 Sept. 13, 2020
On our latest show: Bird Love; attracting hummingbirds in autumn; a slightly lesser goldfinch; and keeping your bird seed bug-free.
#789 July 19, 2020
On our Latest Show (#789 July 19): good news about the Great American Outdoors Act; the remarkable American Dipper; the new Peterson Guide to Birds; and an audio postcard from South Dakota.
#780 May 17, 2020
On Our Latest Show: Keeping at-home kids busy with great projects from the Cornell Lab; the latest from the Talkin’ Birds Book Nest; and why you should keep your bird feeders up this month.
#692 Sept. 2, 2018
On our latest show: the delicate but fierce American Avocet; why meadowlarks look like an unrelated African bird; the Pope declares the ocean plastic trash problem an “emergency”; and where are all the male hummingbirds?
#673 Apr. 22, 2018
On our Earth Day show: Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers is our special guest. Plus, we get a hummingbird report from Cape Cod, and we meet the beautiful Northern Parula.
#640 Sept. 3, 2017
On our latest show: Seabirds Ashore; Learning to Identify Shorebirds; and the “Old Man of the Sea.”
#586 Aug. 7, 2016
On today's show: The Birdist; celebrating shorebird season; and the story of a woman who dived into a city canal to rescue a Herring Gull.