FAQs about Urban Wildlife Podcast:How many episodes does Urban Wildlife Podcast have?The podcast currently has 119 episodes available.
May 02, 2024Urban Life Rafts for Migrating BirdsBilly talked with author Scott Weidensaul about the wonders of bird migration and how urbanite humans can make their city habitats better for avian visitors. Topics include shorebirds, songbirds, raptors, outdoor cats, dogs, urban parks, window collisions, artificial light at … Continue reading →...more36minPlay
March 10, 2024Urban Coyotes with Stan GehrtTony and Billy talk with one of their urban wildlife heroes, Stan Gehrt, who has been studying Chicago’s coyotes for more than 20 years. Dr. Gehrt has just authored a new book Coyotes Among Us: Secrets of the City’s top … Continue reading →...more1h 29minPlay
February 11, 2024It’s Always Groundhog DayTony and Billy talk about one of their favorite critters, the (urban) woodchuck (a.k.a. groundhog, monax, whistle pig, etc.) and its marmot relatives around the globe. Other topics include yellow-bellied and hoary marmots; when iNaturalist makes it look like a … Continue reading →...more1h 6minPlay
August 15, 2023Tony and Billy Catch up and Opine on Beavers, Hunting & Conservation, and Land.Tony and Billy got together ostensibly to talk about urban beavers (Castor canadensis), but the conversation wandered far and wide, touching on such subjects as hunting and conservation, rowhouse rednecks, groom cakes, Coleman coolers, the absurdity of private land ownership, … Continue reading →...more1h 37minPlay
May 28, 2023Charismatic Mega Fish FaunaThe biggest animal in Philadelphia (and other port cities) isn’t a deer or a coyote, it’s a fish. We talk with biologist Shannon White about Atlantic sturgeon and her research into their depressingly reduced populations. We talk about how the … Continue reading →...more1h 5minPlay
May 28, 2023Chasing the Urban Exotic Episode Repost (In Memory of Scott McWilliams)In memory of Scott McWilliams, who passed away from brain cancer recently, we are reposting this episode from 2015. Scott was a great Philadelphian, physician, Billy’s herping buddy and close friend, and an endlessly inquisitive naturalist....more55minPlay
April 08, 2023Harbor Seals to Whales, Everything in BetweenAndrew Budziak traveled from Vancouver to St. John’s and four cities in between to photograph Canadian urban wildlife for his video series Edge of Frame. Billy and Andrew talk about the wildlife he saw and the humans too. You can … Continue reading →...more43minPlay
March 15, 2023The Most Beautiful Snake in the CountryThe San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is shockingly beautiful and sadly endangered. It’s small range lies within the San Francisco Bay Area (no surprise there), one of the most densely populated regions of the United States. Billy is … Continue reading →...more37minPlay
January 29, 2023The Tyranny of Roads (and what to do about it)You might only think of them as paths from here to there, but roads are vast structures whose density largely defines urban areas and determine what can survive in them. Darryl Jones, author of A Clouded Leopard in the Middle … Continue reading →...more36minPlay
December 19, 2022Post Office Fossils and Mountain BeaversSeattle naturalist and author David B. Williams talks with Billy about the urban nature world of Seattle, including the geology of building stone, backyard eagles, and mountain beavers. (and if anyone out there wants to do a full episode about … Continue reading →...more33minPlay
FAQs about Urban Wildlife Podcast:How many episodes does Urban Wildlife Podcast have?The podcast currently has 119 episodes available.