Episode 25 – Summer Songsters

We welcome spring and summer with the killdeer on this episode!

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blog action day!

This year’s theme is water. This is perfect for birds- in fact, birds need water more often than food. You can provide fresh, clean water for birds just by putting a bowl of water out for them. Of course and bird bath or fountain is better. I just use an extra dog food bowl and put it on the porch banner near some bushes. This works for water and baths- it’s pretty fun to watch little chickadees splash around.

This year, help your fine feathered friends by providing a fresh drink of water.

Episode – 24 Nighttime Migrants

Some birds migrate by day and some by night- this podcast covers the Wood Duck, Redhead and the Common Loon. Enjoy!

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Here are some really fun nests!

Visit this site to see some funky nests in funky places! My fav: the Wren!

Episode 23 – Why Chickadees are the Best Birds

Here is a cute article from Mike O’Connor, owner of the Bird Watcher’s General Store about chickadees!

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Episode #22 – Waterfowl

Join me today as we lean about the Canada Goose, the Mallard and the Wood Duck. All of these waterfowl are early migrators and can easily be identified by sight and sound!

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Episode #21 – British Invasion

Join us this time as we hear the European starling and the house sparrow. These are two of our most common “invaders”, which are non-native species.

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You can support this podcast by using the Amazon.com portal just to the right of  this post!    WREN Radio will get a small credit for your Amazon purchase(s).  All proceeds go to purchase the licenses for the songs and calls from the McCauly Library at the Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York.

Thank you for listening and supporting WREN Radio!

Episode #20 – Game Birds

Today we will learn the calls of game birds including the wild turkey, the bob-white and the ruffed grouse.

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Blog Action Day: Climate Change is not for the Birds!

This year the Blog Action Day (www.blogactionday.org)  topic is climate change.   Of course it comes as no  surprise that birds are affected by climate change. We know this to be true as 40 years of data from the Audubon Christmas Bird count reveals changes in the wintering range of almost all North American birds.  While the average change is 35 miles, some of these range changes are over 100 miles .

Climate change- yet another threat to our precious bird life.  For more information from the National Audubon please visit: http://birdsandclimate.audubon.org/

Here is a graph from the Audubon article of  movement of  winter ranges for 20 species  http://tinyurl.com/yk85yw5