Delhi’s Jain Bird Hospital is Free | BirdNote
Charity Birds Hospital in India has been caring for patients since 1929.
At Charity Birds Hospital, a small staff takes care of approximately twenty-six hundred birds at a time, providing antibiotics, medicine, food, and a safe place to rest for injured or sick birds.
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Biomimicry with Billy Almon | BirdNote
Many modern inventions were inspired by nature.
For as long as humans have been solving problems, we’ve looked to nature for inspiration. In some cases we’ve even imitated other organisms in our inventions through a process called biomimicry, says Billy Almon, a futurist and biomimicry expert.
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01.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dreading the Terns | BirdNote
Thousands of terns mysteriously leaving their nests for a few moments.
In June of 2022, Adé Ben-Salahuddin worked as a volunteer research assistant on a tiny island off the coast of Maine at a Common Tern breeding colony. Every once in a while, something very interesting would happen...
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31.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Biomimicry, Birds and Beyond with adrienne maree brown | BirdNote
Bring Birds Back Season 7: Episode 1
The Bring Birds Back podcast is back for Season 7! Check out episode 1 today: Biomimicry, Birds and Beyond with adrienne maree brown
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30.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Secretarybird: Eagle on Stilts | BirdNote
These African raptors are like no other bird of prey on earth.
The Secretarybird of sub-Saharan Africa looks like a slim eagle set on the long, slender legs of a crane. Secretarybirds can fly but prefer to hunt on foot, walking over 20 miles a day and dispatching their prey with powerful kicks of their taloned feet.
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28.07.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hummingbirds Help Mites Hitch a Ride | BirdNote
Many mites rely on larger animals to survive.
Mites are tiny critters related to spiders and ticks. Because they are typically no larger than a grain of salt, many mite species rely on larger animals to survive. In the neotropics, hummingbird flower mites freeload off an existing partnership!
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25.07.2025 20:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Season 7 of Bring Birds Back Coming Soon! | BirdNote
Listen to the brand new trailer.
Bring Birds Back, is back... and we’ve got two new co-hosts, Billy Almon and Anika Hazra! They'll be sharing their own personal knowledge and passions with you, and speak with world-renowned experts - Subscribe anywhere you get your podcasts!
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Sleeping on the Wing | BirdNote
It’s more like a power nap.
Some swifts and frigatebirds stay aloft for months. But for a long time, scientists did not know if the birds might be sleeping on the wing. A 2016 study provided answers!
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House Sparrow Pool Party | BirdNote
Splishin' and a'splashin'!
Social, chatty, ubiquitous, the House Sparrow has adapted to living in cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Like most birds, these sparrows enjoy a daily bath.
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23.07.2025 14:14 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Wings of Hope: Bird Conservation in the Tropical Andes | BirdNote
Before dawn in a Bolivian river valley, two friends waited to witness something extraordinary: Critically Endangered Red-fronted Macaws in the wild. Their story highlights how conservation and community are giving birds a second chance.
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17.07.2025 21:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bird Emoji | BirdNote
Let's celebrate bird emoji for the icons they are!
Today, July 17th, is World Emoji Day — because that’s the date on the little calendar emoji. These cartoon graphics can show everything from smiley faces to plants, hearts, and of course, birds. In fact, some of those bird emoji were among the very first emoji ever made!
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Seasonal Flooding of the Amazon | BirdNote
A lush world, with immense biodiversity...
When it’s predictable and wildlife is well adapted, natural flooding can create a biological bonanza. In the Amazon River Basin, which holds one-fifth of the world’s fresh water, annual rains can raise water levels 30 to 40 feet in just days!
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Whistling Birdsong with Andrew Bird | BirdNote
His song 'Rare Birds' draws inspiration from birds both living and extinct.
Musician Andrew Bird is known as a songwriter, violinist, and, like his namesake, a virtuoso whistler. He showcases these skills in the song Rare Birds, which was created as part of The Birdsong Project in 2020, and draws inspiration from birds both living and extinct.
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15.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rufous-collared Sparrow: Tico-Tico | BirdNote
With Carmen Miranda!
The song Tico-Tico no Fuba, like Carmen Miranda, came to us from Brazil. Believe it or not, the song is about a bird!
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Thick-billed Longspur | BirdNote
Their burbling song evokes the high plains.
It can feel like there’s nowhere to hide in the shortgrass prairie. But the Thick-billed Longspur calls this place home. The bird’s burbling song helps create the high plains’ soundscape.
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09.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Firebird’s Bright Outfit | BirdNote
An elusive, mythical creature whose feathers light up the night.
You might have heard of the Phoenix, the legendary bird who bursts into flames and is reborn from its ashes. Well, its literary cousin is the Slavic myth of the Firebird, an elusive creature whose feathers burn and light up the night.
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08.07.2025 16:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Least Auklets: Seabirds in Miniature | BirdNote
This tiny alcid is no bigger than a sparrow.
The family of seabirds called alcids is an eclectic bunch that includes puffins and murres. The largest alcids are about the size of a duck, but the smallest — called the Least Auklet — could fit in the palm of your hand!
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Shorebirds Watch Their Feet | BirdNote
Mother Nature is good with the fine details.
Greater Yellowlegs — not surprisingly — have bright yellow legs and feet. Why?
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04.07.2025 03:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'What is a birder?' with Rosemary Mosco | BirdNote
Every hobby has its own lingo, including birding!
Rosemary Mosco’s latest book is a tongue-in-cheek guide that defines many of the terms that you might hear on a bird outing, like calling a particularly cute bird a "birb" or shortening the word binoculars to just "bins" or "nocs."
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