Wildlife Observer Network (Archived)

Birding Today is hosted by professional birding guide and author George Armistead with environmental educator tony Croasdale. In this episode they discuss birding at home during the quarantine as well as what books they are reading including: "The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue, and Ian Fleming" by Jim Wright and Birds of Paradise and Bowerbirds: An Identification Guide by Phil Gregory and Richard Allen.

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Our domestic pig’s wild Eurasian cousins enjoy urban living all the way from Spain to Japan. Billy and Tony talk about urban boar and the increasingly urban feral hogs on their own continent. They also discuss the research of Barcelona’s Sean Cahill, who appeared in a 2016 podcast episode, and recent research about the diet of Berlin’s famous boar population.

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Smash invasive spotted lantern flies with Billy and Michelle Niedermeier of Penn State’s Community Integrated Pest Management program (https://extension.psu.edu/michelle-niedermeier). Billy talks about the Japanese beetle invasion a century ago (working off Ken Frank’s paper about the topic), and we (joined by Margaret Rohde and Tykee James) talk about the launch of our multi-media empire, the Wildlife Observer Network! 

Ken Frank's paper: https://bioone.org/journals/Entomological-News/volume-126/issue-3/021.126.0302/Establishment-of-the-Japanese-Beetle-Popillia-japonica-Newman-in-North/10.3157/021.126.0302.short

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Biologists Phil Freda, Nelson Melendez discuss the biology of the Alien franchise, specifically the ecology of interstellar dispersal.

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Evolutionary Biologist Justin Yeager discusses his research on poison dart frogs in Peru and Ecuador. Our host Tony joined him in Peru for one of these trips and they reminisce on fun times in the field and Peruvian discotheques. The frog talk starts at about 25min.  Justin relives his team’s expedition to rediscover Excidobates captivas. We finish up discussing Dr Yeager’s current research on glass frogs.

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Paul Riss from Punk Rock Big Year Apparel  and Tony Croasdale from punk band RAMBO discuss how birding and punk is not a juxtaposition but a natural outgrowth of being alienated angry kids who love nature.

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Mike McGraw and Ton Croasdale are former bouncers turned wildlife biologists and science communicators. They are joined by Dillinger Escape Plan bassist Liam Wilson who introduced Mike and Tony to each other 15 years at one of his band's shows.

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Biologists Phil Freda, Nelson Melendez discuss the biology of the Alien franchise, specifically the ecology of interstellar dispersal.

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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Happy to be joined by Jazmin Murphy where she breaks down how the federal implementation of lethal control measures toward coyotes are extremely biased and do not ultimately reduce human wildlife conflict. She also shares her perspective on science communication or, #SciComm today and talks on her upcoming book “Ur Not A Conservationist” here: https://blackflowerscience.co/store/

Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone)

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