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Shows With Contributions by Mark Bramhill

American Crow calling while standing on a fence railing.

Spark Bird: Kaeli Swift and the Rooftop Crows

When Dr. Kaeli Swift was in college, she became obsessed with the Corvid family of birds, which includes crows, ravens and jays. She decided to study whether crows learn to recognize certain human faces as friendly. She tried putting a mask on a mannequin holding peanuts, but the crows…
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Windows reflecting an outside deck and backyard; the windows have Feather Friendly dots on them to prevent bird crashes

Helping Birds See Windows

As many as a billion birds in North America die from window collisions each year, and the biggest culprit is low-rise, residential buildings. Tenijah Hamilton, the host of Bring Birds Back podcast, spoke to Josh Morris of Seattle Audubon about what people can do to help birds spot the…
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Illustration of a Baltimore Oriole, Osprey and American Tree Sparrow flying over our host, Tenijah Hamilton, smiling and holding binoculars, against a background of trees and tall buildings

Can we make our cities safer for birds?

In the third installment of Bring Birds Back, host Tenijah Hamilton talks with NYC Audubon Senior Conservation Biologist Kaitlyn Parkins and Seattle Audubon Urban Conservation Manager Joshua Morris to break down the challenge that glass in our built environment poses to birds, how a local…
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A Prairie Warbler showing its bright yellow body with black stripes on its flanks. vivid against a soft background of Cyprus foliage

How to Count Three Billion Birds

A study in 2019 found that North American bird populations had declined by three billion birds in the past 50 years. Tenijah Hamilton, the host of Bring Birds Back podcast, talked to biostatistician Adam C. Smith about how scientists arrived at this shocking number. The hard work of…
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Illustration of a Baltimore Oriole, Osprey and American Tree Sparrow flying over our host, Tenijah Hamilton, smiling and holding binoculars, against a background of trees and tall buildings

Who Is Birding For?

In the second installment of Bring Birds Back, host Tenijah Hamilton and Sheridan Alford, co-founder of Black Birders Week, talk about how to celebrate Black people who love birds. Then they get out into the wilds of Georgia in search of, you guessed it, birds. Check out the #ForTheBirds…
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Sheridan Alford, smiling at the camera while holding a female Cardinal in her hands

Celebrating Black Birders Week

This week is the second annual Black Birders Week. It was created in response to an incident in Central Park in New York City, where a Black birder was racially profiled and harassed. The week invites more Black folks to learn about birding, which has historically been very white. Tenijah…
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A Red-eyed Vireo seen in left profile, perched amidst branches and greenery. A grayish horizontal stripe sets off the red eye of the vireo, and its greenish yellow, light brown, and white plumage looks softly blended as its body tapers neatly to a short tail.

Heid E. Erdrich - DNA Tribes

Ojibwe writer Heid E. Erdrich's poem DNA Tribes deals with her identity as a Native American woman and the call of the Red-eyed Vireo, which sounds like someone saying “ Here I am, where are you?” [Hear more poetry by Erdrich and other contemporary writers on our podcast, BirdNote Presents…
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A Red-eyed Vireo seen in left profile, perched amidst branches and greenery. A grayish horizontal stripe sets off the red eye of the vireo, and its greenish yellow, light brown, and white plumage looks softly blended as its body tapers neatly to a short tail.

Heid E. Erdrich - DNA Tribes

Ojibwe writer Heid E. Erdrich's poem DNA Tribes deals with her identity as a Native American woman and the call of the Red-eyed Vireo, which sounds like someone saying “ Here I am, where are you?” [Hear more poetry by Erdrich and other contemporary writers on our podcast, BirdNote Presents…
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Illustration of a Baltimore Oriole, Osprey and American Tree Sparrow flying over our host, Tenijah Hamilton, smiling and holding binoculars, against a background of trees and tall buildings

How Do We Know that Birds are in Trouble?

In the inaugural episode of Bring Birds Back, host Tenijah Hamilton gets to know biostatistician Dr. Adam Smith, coauthor of the study that found we’ve lost 3 billion birds in North America since 1970, and helps us wrap our heads around that gigantic number. The good news? There are lots…
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Eurasian Wren seen in left profile, beak open wide as it sings. This Eurasian wren shows the warm brown wing feathers and buff colored breast, and its short tail is tilted upward.

International Dawn Chorus Day

The first Sunday of May is International Dawn Chorus Day, a day to appreciate the beauty of birds’ dawn songs. Dawn Chorus Day began as a small event in Birmingham, England in the 1980s and has grown to be a worldwide celebration of birdsong. You can join in wherever you are by listening…
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