"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/.
Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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2025-02-14 | Elon Musk is hoping to set up a launching and landing area for his SpaceX Starships in a very vulnerable, important area. | |
2025-02-12 | Laura and Russ had a "Three Owl Morning" on Superb Owl Sunday. | |
2025-02-10 | Laura tells the true story of a baby Pine Siskin. | |
2025-02-07 | Laura's feeders are buzzing with the "Miss Congenialities" of the finch family. | |
2025-02-05 | STOP feeding ducks! Feeding other birds may be fine, depending on where you live. | |
2025-02-04 | Knowing when and when not to intervene when an owl seems distressed is not straightforward. | |
2025-01-29 |
The Completely Made-Up Story of Frederick the Nighthawk and Sneakers the Blue Jay For a while in the 90s, Laura had two licensed education birds, a nighthawk and a Blue Jay, both lovable but entirely different. They inspired this story, written in 2020. |
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2025-01-27 | Laura's stayed healthy while birding in Central and South America, Europe, and Africa thanks to the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, and the National Institutes of Health. | |
2025-01-21 | BB the banded Pileated Woodpecker still visits Laura's yard now and then. | |
2025-01-20 | Jimmy Carter did not fail us. We failed him. (I used Lang Elliott's recording of a Brown Thrasher, the state bird of Georgia, for this program.) |