Laura Erickson's For the Birds

"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/.

Website: http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/
Description: "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/.
Language: 🇬🇧 English
last modified: 2025-01-21 03:16
last episode published: 2025-01-20 00:00
publication frequency: 3.4 days
Contributors: Laura Erickson; Author Owner
Explicit: false
Number of Episodes: 1153
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Categories: Society & Culture Outdoor Natural Sciences Places & Travel Science & Medicine Sports & Recreation

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Date	Title & Description	Contributors
2025-01-20	A Great American President 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.)
2025-01-16	Owl Irruption Northern owls are staging an irruption this year, many of them physically stressed. Birders can't help but want to see them. If birders stick together and stay on the road, most owls can handle birders and photographers.
2025-01-08	Year of the Chickadee, Part 3 Laura has lots of plans to celebrate her "Year of the Chickadee."
2025-01-07	Year of the Chickadee, Part 2 It took Laura 67 days from receiving her first pair of binoculars to her going out to find her first bird. How did she spend that time?
2025-01-06	Year of the Chickadee, Part 1 Fifty years ago, Laura was abysmally ignorant about birds. And then--a miracle!
2024-12-20	Empathy: An Innate Quality Humans aren't the only creatures who have a need to nurture and help others. (This program's transcript is the second half of the linked blogpost.)
2024-12-19	Learning Empathy from the Best More evidence that Laura's fifth grade teacher was the very best.
2024-12-18	Premature obituaries Reports of BB's demise were premature. When that happens to human beings, it can sometimes change history.
2024-12-17	Exit, pursued by a Cooper's Hawk The banded Pileated Woodpecker who has been visiting Laura's yard for the past four years disappeared after a Cooper's Hawk was hunting in the vicinity. Laura expected the worst. But spoiler alert: he turned up again on Friday the thirteenth. While he ...
2024-12-04	No Way to Stop It Laura remembers her fifth grade teacher, who taught her, via Rodgers and Hammerstein's original stage musical The Sound of Music, that real heroes stand up against cruel regimes even when there is no way to stop it.