BirdNote Presents

BirdNote Presents episodes:

• 11.18.2021

  An Update on BirdNote Presents

  Hear the latest from BirdNote on our other podcasts, Threatened, Bring Birds Back, and BirdNote Daily

  
• 04.30.2021

  Poetry Month: Heid E. Erdrich

  Heid E. Erdrich is the author of seven collections of poetry. Her writing has won fellowships and awards from the National Poetry Series, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Bush Foundation, Loft Literary Center, First...

  
• 04.23.2021

  Poetry Month: Timothy Steele

  Timothy Steele is an American poet who has received numerous awards and honors for his poetry, including a Lavan Younger Poets Award, the Los Angeles PEN Center Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for Excellence...

  
• 04.09.2021

  Poetry Month: Traci Brimhall

  A native of Minnesota, Traci Brimhall is an Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University. Her first published collection, Rookery, features many poems about birds. “Birds just seem to have a kind of spiritual or...

  
• 04.02.2021

  Poetry Month: Wendy S. Walters

  Wendy S. Walters is a non-fiction writer and poet, who holds a MFA/PHD in Poetry and Literature from Cornell University. She is the former Associate Dean of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons, The New School. Currently she...

  
• 11.20.2020

  Grouse: Bonus Guest Episode: The Spotted Owl

  This episode we're sharing "Timber Wars," from OPB. The show explores the fight over old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. And at the center of that fight was… a bird!

  
• 11.17.2020

  Introducing Threatened

  Answering the call to protect the birds and places we love

  
• 10.27.2020

  Grouse: If Not Hope, Then Courage

  In the final episode of Grouse, host Ashley Ahearn returns to a lek in Washington with biologist Michael Schroeder and finds it scorched by recent wildfire. We’re all looking for hope right now, but Ashley says what we really need...

  
• 10.20.2020

  Grouse: The Death of Compromise?

  Environmentalists and politicians love the phrase “common ground.” In the latest episode of Grouse, host Ashley Ahearn explores the role of compromise in the face of major environmental loss. Does the sage-grouse have time for it?

  
• 10.13.2020

  Grouse: Oil and Gas

  No matter how we feel about it, the natural gas industry is an important player in our national energy supply — and the future of sage-grouse. Can the two co-exist? Host Ashley Ahearn travels to Wyoming for answers. She talks...

  
• 10.06.2020

  Grouse: The Story of the Grieving Woman and the Sage-Grouse

  What can the Greater Sage-Grouse teach us about our relationships with the Earth and one another? Ashley Ahearn turns to Wilson Wewa, an elder of the Northern Paiute Nation, for stories about sage-grouse from long ago that might hold lessons...

  
• 09.29.2020

  Grouse: Is What’s Good for the Herd Good for the Bird?

  Can we have beef and sage-grouse? Join host Ashley Ahearn as she talks with scientists trying to answer that question.

  
• 09.22.2020

  Grouse: Fire and the Questions It Raises

  Through the haze of a wildfire, Ashley Ahearn examines threats to the Greater Sage-Grouse

  
• 09.15.2020

  Grouse: In Search of the Bird, Through Time

  Ashley Ahearn searches for the Greater Sage-Grouse in snowy eastern Washington

  
• 09.15.2020

  Grouse: Stranger in a Strange Land

  Radio journalist Ashley Ahearn moves from Seattle to sagebrush country and gets curious about a weird, troubled bird

  
• 08.31.2020

  Introducing Grouse

  Grouse is a show about the most controversial bird in the West and what it can teach us about hope, compromise and life in rural America.

  
• 07.01.2020

  Sound Escapes: Our Solar-Powered Jukebox

  Take a Whirlwind Tour of Nearly Every Habitat on Earth

  
• 06.24.2020

  Sound Escapes: Mark Twain's Limpid Brook

  Relax to the Sound of Cool, Clear Water

  
• 06.17.2020

  Sound Escapes: Song of the Paddle

  Hear the Duet of Two Loons in Voyageurs National Park

  
• 06.10.2020

  Sound Escapes: The Poetics of Space

  Immerse Yourself in Eastern Washington’s Pipestone Canyon

  
• 05.20.2020

  Sound Escapes: Songs of Spring

  Hear Olympic National Park at Its Most Musical

  
• 05.19.2020

  Introducing Sound Escapes Season 2

  For those of us sheltering in place, it’s easy to feel the walls of our homes closing in. But sound can set us free. All we need to do is listen. In these eight episodes, you'll hear soundscapes from the wildest...

  
• 02.18.2020

  In the Clear: The Problem with Birds and Glass

  Window collisions kill as many as 1 billion birds each year in the US. What can we do to change that?

  
• 01.07.2020

  Rachel Carson and the Veery

  A story of love, birds, and wonder

  
• 12.04.2019

  Wingspan Takes Flight

  The board game of the year — all about birds!

  
• 11.19.2019

  A Conversation with J. Drew Lanham

  Breaking Down Barriers and Finding Home in Nature

  
• 11.14.2019

  Introducing BirdNote Presents

  The home for all special productions from BirdNote

  
• 08.14.2019

  Sound Escapes: Nightfall on the Zabalo

  The Zabalo River in Ecuador is teeming with life — and you can hear it.

  
• 06.14.2019

  Sound Escapes: Riot of Music

  The young Samuel Langhorne Clemens - later known as Mark Twain - signed on to train as a pilot on a Mississippi riverboat when he was just 22. He quickly discovered that if he volunteered for the early morning shift,...

  
• 05.10.2019

  Sound Escapes: Land Between the Lakes

  Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a massive inland peninsula, bordered by sections of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers that were permanently flooded as a part of FDR’s New Deal. Humans changed this landscape, but now birds have...

  
• 04.09.2019

  Sound Escapes: The Auditory Horizon

  We’re back with our guide, Gordon Hempton, the Sound Tracker. Today he’s taking us to Saskatchewan’s Grasslands National Park, just a few miles north of the Canada/US border. As you’re listening, close your eyes and envision how all of these...

  
• 03.08.2019

  Sound Escapes: The Song of the Big Island

  Take a carbon-free journey to Hawaii in the second episode of Sound Escapes. The Song of the Big Island takes us from the waves on the beach to deep within the Hawaiian rainforest.

  
• 02.13.2019

  Sound Escapes: Relearn the Art of Listening

  Gordon Hempton has spent his life recording the sounds of the natural world, from the rainforest of Hawai’i to the vast dry prairies of North America. Then, one morning, he woke up to silence. Ever since his first sudden encounter...