BirdNote Presents

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Stories that connect us more deeply with birds, nature, and each other.

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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 symbolic ...
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
06.03.2020 Sound Escapes: Kalahari Sunrise Listen to Dawn in an Ancient Desert
05.27.2020 Sound Escapes: John Muir's Yosemite Walk in Muir's Footsteps as You Follow the “Water Music” of the Merced River
05.20.2020 Sound Escapes: Amazon Awakenings Listen for Miles in the Amazon Rainforest
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 ...
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 ...

BirdNote Presents

What's BirdNote Presents about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

BirdNote Presents episodes:

An Update on BirdNote Presents

Poetry Month: Heid E. Erdrich

Poetry Month: Timothy Steele

Poetry Month: Traci Brimhall

Poetry Month: Wendy S. Walters

Grouse: Bonus Guest Episode: The Spotted Owl

Introducing Threatened

Grouse: If Not Hope, Then Courage

Grouse: The Death of Compromise?

Grouse: Oil and Gas

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

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

Grouse: Fire and the Questions It Raises

Grouse: In Search of the Bird, Through Time

Grouse: Stranger in a Strange Land

Introducing Grouse

Sound Escapes: Our Solar-Powered Jukebox

Sound Escapes: Mark Twain's Limpid Brook

Sound Escapes: Song of the Paddle

Sound Escapes: The Poetics of Space

Sound Escapes: Kalahari Sunrise

Sound Escapes: John Muir's Yosemite

Sound Escapes: Amazon Awakenings

Sound Escapes: Songs of Spring

Introducing Sound Escapes Season 2

In the Clear: The Problem with Birds and Glass

Rachel Carson and the Veery

Wingspan Takes Flight

A Conversation with J. Drew Lanham

Introducing BirdNote Presents

Sound Escapes: Nightfall on the Zabalo

Sound Escapes: Riot of Music

Sound Escapes: Land Between the Lakes

Sound Escapes: The Auditory Horizon

Sound Escapes: The Song of the Big Island

Sound Escapes: Relearn the Art of Listening