birding history
BCR 184: Geoff LeBaron, Director, Audubon Christmas Bird Count
Geoff LeBaron, Director of National Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count international, a position Geoff has held since 1987; fly’s by to talk with Mardi Dickinson about the Christmas Bird Count.
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BCR 167: Nancy Langston, Sustaining Lake Superior
Nancy Langston, author of Sustaining Lake Superior, An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World sits down with Mardi Dickinson on the interconnected histories of the watershed, human, forest and bird health — all in the context of climate change.
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BCR 155: Katrina van Grouw, Author & Illustrator
Katrina van Grouw, Author & Natural History iIlustrator of The Unfeathered Bird and Unnatural Selection, talks about her books, being a self-taught scientist with a passion for evolutionary biology and its history.
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BCR 140: Helen Hays, Great Gull Island 50th
Celebration of Helen Hays 50th Anniversary of Great Gull Island; a tern research colony she has directed since 1969 for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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BCR 118: Hob Osterlund, Holy Moli
Hob Osterlund is the founder of Kauai Albatross Network and author of the book Holy Moli, Albatross and Other Ancestors; joins BirdCallsRadio to talk about Albatrosses on Kauai.
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BCR 117: Scott Weidensaul, Author and Naturalist
Scott Weidensaul, Author, and Naturalist stops by to talk with Host Mardi Dickinson about his life-long work and projects on conservation and the natural world.
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BCR 116: Stephen Kress, Project Puffin
Stephen Kress, Vice President for Bird Conservation of the National Audubon Society, Executive Director of the Seabird Restoration Program, Project Puffin; stops by to talk with BirdCallsRadio about his life-long work in seabird conservation, management, and habitat restoration.
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BCR 109: Westport CT CBC
Bird Calls Radio reports on the Westport CT Christmas Bird Count by joining a field party on count day.
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BCR 098: Joel Greenberg, Passenger Pigeon’s
Joel Greenberg, Author of A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction stops by to talk about the factors that lead to the demise of Passenger Pigeons.
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BCR 096: Twan Leenders, President, Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Twan Leenders assumed the position as President and CEO of Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History RTPI in 2012. Guided by Peterson’s example, Leenders actively studies natural history and strives to make nature accessible to everyone.
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