Posts Tagged ‘BirdCallsRadio’
BirdCallsRadio reminders
Don’t forget … • Eric Powers will be the guest on the show today, airing live from 1 to 2 p.m. on 1490 WGCH or listen live. Who’s Eric? Read here. *Listen to the show for the answer to the question that could win you the book “Gifts of the Crow.” • Send me your best…
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Win the book: "Gifts of the Crow"
You have a chance to win the book “Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans,” by John Marzluff and Tony Angell. The book was featured on last week’s BirdCallsRadio program. Give it a listen here if you missed it. Here’s how to win the book: Answer…
Read MoreEric Powers next guest on BirdCallsRadio
Biologist Eric Powers will be the next guest on BirdCallsRadio, coming up this Sunday from 1 to 2 p.m. on 1490 WGCH and listen live. Powers is the founder of Your Connection to Nature (YC2N) and spearheads many conservation projects, including one involving Northern Bobwhites to stem the out-of-control tick problem. A native of Colorado,…
Read MoreWhat's your favorite nature story involving your father? Drop me a line
Do you have a favorite nature story involving your father? Was your father instrumentral in getting you interesting in nature? Any funny stories about your father in the natural world? Drop me a line and tell me the story. I’ll read some of the stories on air this Sunday (Father’s Day) during a special live…
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BCR 057: John Marzluff & Tony Angell, Gifts of the Crow
John Marzluff and Tony Angell, Authors discuss their book “Gifts of the Crow,” and the amazing world of corvids, the bird family that includes crows, ravens, and jays. Listen as they share the stories that shaped this book about crows, an amazingly intelligent and emotional bird. Host Mardi Dickinson discusses horseshoe crabs and red knots.
Read MoreTune in today for BirdCallsRadio
When I conducted a very informal survey of my For the Birds column readers several years ago about “New England’s favorite bird,” the chickadee and cardinal took the first two spots. The crow was nowhere near the top, but a few readers did vote for the crow and wrote impassioned reasons why the large black…
Read MoreBirdCallsRadio: Greg Hanisek
Greg Hanisek Nature columnist talks about a variety of natural topics, such as the CT Avian Records Committee, pheasants, mountain lions, hummingbirds, eBird and the reintroduction of peregrine falcons to Connecticut. Host Chris Bosak talks about DDT and its impact on eagles, falcons and osprey.
Read MoreA fun BirdCallsRadio show coming up; be a part of it
I’m looking forward to Sunday’s BirdCallsRadio show with naturalist/journalist Greg Hanisek. Like me, Greg works for a daily newspaper and knows the grind of getting out a paper every day and trying to mix in a little birdwatching time, too. It’s a tough, but rewarding, chore. Greg also writes a regular nature column for his…
Read MoreGreg Hanisek will be the next guest on BirdCallsRadio
Connecticut naturalist and journalist Greg Hanisek will be the guest on this Sunday’s BirdCallsRadio show, which airs 1 to 2 p.m. on Sundays on 1490AM WGCH and Listen Live here. Hanisek is a news editor at the Republican-American newspaper in Waterbury, Connecticut. He also writes nature columns and blogs for that paper, “Talking Nature with…
Read MoreHappy Memorial Day weekend from BirdCallsRadio
Have a great Memorial Day weekend everybody. If you’re traveling, be careful and best of luck seeing some good “road birds.” If you’re staying put, best of luck seeing great yard birds or birds in the field. Feel free to share your Memorial Day weekend sightings with BirdCallsRadio by clicking here. I’d love to hear…
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