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January 22, 2019 BCR 155: Katrina van Grouw, Author & Illustrator
Katrina van Grouw, author of The Unfeathered Bird and Unnatural Selection (both published by Princeton University Press), inhabits that no-man’s land slap bang between art and science. She holds degrees in fine art and natural history illustration, and is a former curator of ornithological collections at a major national museum. She’s a self-taught scientist with a passion for evolutionary biology and its history. After a long and varied career on both sides of the art/science divide she now devotes her time exclusively to her books which, for her, “tick all creative and intellectual boxes.”

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Mentioned In This Episode:
Katrina van Grouw
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39 min
January 15, 2019 BCR 154: Chidi Paige, BirdWiser Inventor

Chidi Paige holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Uyo, Nigeria. With a background including more than 15 years of experience as a Science Educator, she has extensive experience in designing and implementing programs that have proven effective in instilling a love of science in youth during the critical ages of 6 to 18 years of age.
Chidi held the position of Explorers Program, Coordinator at the Newark Museum from 2008 to 2015. During her tenure at the Newark Museum, she developed, coordinated, implemented and managed a year-round constructivist curriculum that supports inquiry-based learning; incorporating invaluable instructional and life-enhancing opportunities to instill in students skills critical to academic, and professional success.
Chidi continues with her passion for education, youth development and community enrichment as Education Program Manager at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University, managing the institute’s existing education initiatives, as well as developing and implementing new wide-audience programming for the institute.
Chidi continues with her passion for education, youth development and community enrichment as Education Program Manager at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University, managing the institute’s existing education initiatives, as well as developing and implementing new wide-audience programming for the institute.
Chidi is the inventor of BirdWiser, fun educational games. She is launching hand-on STEM initiatives in middle and high schools in Eastern Nigeria where she grew up. Chidi likes to travel. She has been to many cities within the United States along with others such as, Madrid, Hamburg, Berlin, Dubai, London, and Cancun. For fun, she likes to dance.
Mentioned In This Episode:
BirdWiser Game
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37 min
January 08, 2019BCR 153: Daniel Lewis, Bird Evolution in Hawai’i
Daniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science & Technology at the Huntington Library in San Marino, and an Associate Research Professor at Claremont Graduate University, where he teaches courses in archival theory and practice, manages aspects the archival studies program, and sits on MA and PhD qualifying exam committees and dissertation committees. Since 2018 he also has an appointment as a lecturer in environmental history at the California Institute of Technology, where he teaches two courses a year, including the history of extinction.
Between 2010 and 2016, Dan also served as Chief Curator of Manuscripts at the Huntington, where he oversaw fifteen professional and paraprofessional staff, including curators, archivists, a chief cataloger, and other staff positions, as well as numerous volunteers.
He earned a BA in English/Writing from the University of Redlands, and received the MA and PhD in History from the University of California at Riverside. He has had a long and distinguished career as an archivist and curator, most recently serving as the Company Historian and Corporate Archivist before coming to the Huntington. He is also on the faculty of the California Rare Book School, where he teaches courses in archives for historians and librarians.
Dan is a native of Hawaii, and is the author of four books, including two about birds (The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds, Yale, 2012) and Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction and Evolution in Hawaii, Yale, 2018). His latest book project, now underway, is a global history of biodiversity.
Banko Palila 1973
Show Notes:
How did conservation start on Hawaii and who were the pioneer ornithologists?
Your perspective of life forms on Hawaii is rather unique, what do you mean by the term “Native” in the context of belonging to Hawaii?
We can’t talk about the Hawaiian birds without considering all the birds rendered extinct by the hand of man. Walk us through the extinct birds, and tell us what is known and when and how they were lost.
Extinction is evidence of ecological transformations; these transformations in Hawaii are compelling and tragic.
What is known about the Moa-nalo,
Fossil hunters in the Islands.
Fieldwork of John Sincock and Sheila Conant.
The Kaua’I O’o. What is the history of this bird and man who spent so much time studying it.
Population of Newell’s Shearwater
Impact of 19thcentury bird collectors in Hawai
The Hawaiian bird survey and the Endangered Species Act
The Palila & avian diseases
The Japanese White-eye
How do you resolve being native and belonging?
Sheila Conant in field with Iiwi.
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53 min
January 01, 2019BCR 152: Donald Kroodsma, Birdsong
Donald Kroodsma has 45 years of active birdsong research as his guide, he cherish the birdsong of spring and summer more than ever. An excellent day is when Don is out in the predawn darkness, waiting for first light to deliver the dawn chorus, and returning home hours later with a wealth of recorded song for further study. A good day is listening and studying and writing about birdsong at his desk. A bad day has no birdsong in it.
Don is a life-long scientist, one who asks questions, seeking answers and increasingly deeper understandings. No longer entrenched at the University, Don is eager to share what he have learned and eager to encourage a deeper appreciation of birds and their songs by the tens of millions of others who also treasure birds.
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Show Notes:
Your early years and when you caught the bug for birds and nature.
Development of your expertise in bird song.
The Singing Life of Birds, The Art and Science of Birdsong.
Groundbreaking look at birdsong.
The Dawn Chorus.
Sonagram as a window into the mind of a singing bird.
Programs birders can use to turn bird songs into a visual sonagram.
Your thinking about the new bird song id apps.
What were the most memorable bird songs of the trip?
Did you make any songbirds observations that truly surprised you?
68 Wood Thrush (Male Two) – Wood Thrush normal speed.
70 Wood Thrush WoTh flourish 8 – For wood thrush slowed down, in 3 parts”–contains one normal wood thrush song, and then the terminal flourish in 3 parts, first the left and lower voice, then the right voice box and higher voice, then the two together, slowed to 1/10th normal speed
Mentioned In This Episode:
BCR 195: Don Kroodsma, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist
Donald Kroodsma
NOTE: Special thanks to Don for the permission and use of his audio birdsongs of the Winter Wren, Pacific Wren, Wood Thrush and Hermit Thrush; including his sonagrams and photographs. All audio birdsongs, sonsgrams and photographs in this show are solely used for this specific BirdCallsRadio & Podcast show BCR 152: Donald Kroodsma, Birdsong. Courtsey of ©Donald Kroodsma, All Rights Reserved. Audio birdsongs wav sonagrams and photographs may not be used in any form without written permission. Please respect the wishes of Donald Kroodsma.
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58 min
December 25, 2018BCR 151: Jeff Wells, Boreal Songbird Initiative
Jeffrey V. Wells , Ph.D., is the science and policy director for the Boreal Songbird Initiative and a visiting research associate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. From 1996-2003 Jeff was with the National Audubon Society, first as bird conservation director for the New York State office, then as the national director of bird conservation. Dr. Wells has earned a reputation as one of the nation’s leading bird experts and conservation biologists. Jeff received his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell University. He has authored or co-authored hundreds of scientific papers, book chapters, reports, op-eds, blogs, and popular articles on ecology, wildlife, and conservation. He is also the author of a number of books including Boreal Birds of North America: A Hemispheric View of Their Conservation Links and Significance, Birder’s Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk, Maine’s Favorite Birds, Important Bird Areas in New York State, and most recently, Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao: A Site & Field Guide.
Show Notes:
About the Boreal Songbird Initiative.
There are vast wetlands too within the Boreal Forest.
What are some of key birds reliant on the boreal forest biome?
Various First Nation, Indigenous and or Aboriginal, groups in Canada.
Boreal Birds Need Half: Maintaining NAmerica’s Bird Nursery and Why It Matters
Author of the Birder’s Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk.
Caribbean Birds of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Boreal Songbird Initiative
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December 18, 2018 BCR 150: John Kricher, The New Neotropical Companion
John Kricher is a Professor of Biology at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts who teaches ecology, ornithology, and vertebrate evolution. His most recent book is The New Neotropical Companion (2017), a third edition, fully revised and full color throughout, much expanded iteration of Kricher’s now familiar handbook. What started out as “the little green book” of John’s highly successful book A Neotropical Companion.
John has also written Tropical Ecology,(Princeton University Press 2011), now the leading textbook on the subject of global tropical ecology. He has authored The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth(Princeton University Press 2009), and Galapagos: A Natural History(Princeton University Press 2006). Other books include three North American ecology field guides (Eastern Forests, Rocky Mountain and Southwestern Forests, California and Pacific Northwest Forests) all part of the Peterson series. The widely used previous edition of A Neotropical Companion was translated into Spanish through the Birders’ Exchange Program of the American Birding Association. He has also produced three recorded lecture series, one on dinosaurs, one on ecology, and one on the biology of birds, all published by Modern Scholar. John is a Fellow in the American Ornithologists Union and has served as president of the Association of Field Ornithologists, president of the Wilson Ornithological Society.
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1 hr 3 min
December 11, 2018BCR 149: Michael DiGiorgio, Artist
Michael DiGiorgio is a nationally recognized artist who is currently living in Madison, CT. Mike’s painting and drawings have appeared in a variety of nature books and journals, such as: Birds of Brazil vol. 1&2, birds of Honduras, Bird Watcher’s Digest, Breeding Bird Atlas of CT, New York State Breeding Bird Atlas, Audubon Field Guide to Birds/ Eastern and Western region, and The Narrow Edgeby Deborah Cramer. From 2007 to 2012, Mike was contracted by Houghton Mifflin to completely revise the artwork for the new edition of Peterson Field Guide to the Birds.
Having painted birds since the age of five, Michael began to study bird painting from the late Don Eckelberry in 1979. Under Don’s critical eye, Michael developed his style emphasizing the character of the bird as well as its relationship to the environment. Working outdoors has provided him with knowledge of natural light, atmosphere, and design.

Committed to painting from life, Mike has traveled extensively to create field sketches of bird, plants, and habitat from South America, Central America, the West Indies, Trinidad, and the Outer Islands of Britain. In addition, his numerous trips to the western United States and national parks have allowed Mike to record a full range of American birdlife.
Mike won the first ever Eckelberry endowment award from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for recognition of his Bird Illustration work. This award was given in memory of Don Eckelberry. Mike’s paintings have been exhibited at the Roger tory Peterson Institute, Jamestown, N.Y.; The Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI; and The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA. and The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y. Mike is currently illustrating plates for Birds of South America vol.3 with Robert Ridgley and Guy Tudor.
Show Notes:
Don Eckelberry school of Kodachrome.
What artists have had the most impact on the development of your unique artistic style.
fine art exhibits, which ones stand out as memorable or the most important?
the difference between art and illustration, and where do field sketches fit in?
What are you preferred mediums
Copyright is vital to your future income. Please share you thoughts on this.
Your dream commission or where in the world do you deeply desire to visit to create art?
Mentioned In This Episode:
Michael DiGiorgio Website
NOTE: Thanks to Michael for the wonderful Banjo music he create and wrote on intro of Nightjar an outro recorded live in the woods called October Owl. All Painting, Photos & two Audio Banjo Mp3’s in this show are solely used for this specific BirdCallsRadio & Podcast show #BCR 149: Michael DiGiorgio and article. Courtsey of ©Michael DiGiorgio, All Rights Reserved. Paintings Audio Banjo Mp3’s and Photo may not be used in any form without written permission. Please respect the wishes of Michael DiGiorgio.
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50 min
December 04, 2018BCR 148: Chris Rimmer, Bicknell’s Thrush
Chris Rimmer is the Founding Executive Director of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, a non-profit wildlife conservation group based in Norwich, Vermont.He completed undergraduate studies inWildlife Biology at the University of Vermont and graduate work in Ecology and Behavioral Biology at the University of Minnesota, where he studied Yellow Warblers on the James Bay coast of Ontario. Prior to his graduate studies, Chris was an itinerant field biologist, with stints in Peru, Ellesmere Island, James Bay, coastal Massachusetts (Manomet Bird Observatory), and Antarctica. Much of his recent work has focused on conservation research of Bicknell’s Thrush at both ends of its migratory range, from New York and New England to the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
Show Notes:
You have studied the Bicknell’s Thrush in Vermont for over a quarter of a Century, what is the current status of the Bicknell’s Thrush in New England?
What is the biggest threat to the continuing survival of the Bicknell’s thrush?
Is the Bicknell’s Thrush a legitimate species?
90% of the migratory Bicknell’s Thrushes winter in Hispaniola.
International Bicknell’s Thrush Conservation Group?
How have tracking devices on migratory birds helped modern scientific efforts to understand songbirds?
Effects of Mercury in the environment.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Vermont Center for Ecostudies

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49 min
November 28, 2018 BCR 147: Patrick Lynch, Cape Cod
Patrick J. Lynch is an author or co-author of nine books published by Yale University Press, including his latest book in Nov 2018, “A Field Guide to Cape Cod.” Including Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, Block Island & Eastern Long Island. A comprehensive guide to the environmental history, natural environments, plants, and animals of Cape Cod and it’s nearby Islands.
44 min
November 06, 2018BCR 146: Juliana Barrett, Climate Change & Coastal Management
Juliana Barrett is with the University of Connecticut Sea Grant College Program and the Department of Extension. Her work focuses on climate change adaptation and coastal habitat management working with Connecticut’s municipalities, NGO’s and state and federal partners. Prior to coming to Sea Grant in 2006 she worked as a private consultant and for The Nature Conservancy as the Director of the Connecticut River Tidelands Last Great Places Program. She has a doctorate in plant ecology from the University of Connecticut and is a co-author of the Vegetation of Connecticut.
Show Notes:
What led to your Ph.D in Plant Ecology and Evolutionary Biology?
To help young people interested in a science career, tell us about your degree path.
When and why did you start to work with communities on climate adaptation?
What do you do with Connecticut Sea Grant and Dept of Extension?
Have you seen evidence of climate change here in Connecticut?
What are the most serious potential consequences of climate change in Connecticut?
What are challenges a community, individuals, municipalities and state officials must deal with regarding ecological changes such as rising sea level and habitat loss?
looking ahead to 50 years from now, what actual effects would likely be evident to coastal communities if climate change continues as expected?
What is the UConn Climate Corps, how is it funded and who benefits?
How are students helping communities in Connecticut.
You are co-author of the “Vegetation of Connecticut”.
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