(Thanks to special guests Sophia and Matryoshka for jingling their collars in range of the mic.)

The havoc that human beings (and a cat named Tibbles) can wreak on native birds, in an episode that wasn't supposed to be all-bird, but here we are.

Podcast partner: The Short Stories of Augie Peterson

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Music by Kevin MacLeod

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