Podcasts about Cowbird

Brown-headed Cowbirds have a sneaky approach to parenthood. They lay eggs in the nests of other songbirds, and the songbird hosts often raise the cowbird chick as their own. It's called nest parasitism. But sometimes the hosts throw out the odd-looking egg. And when that happens, the cowbirds sometimes retaliate by destroying the hosts' other eggs. Scientists call this “mafia behavior,” likening it to organized crime groups enforcing their demands on unwilling business partners.More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible. 

This week a little different than our usual episodes. Instead of talking about a single bird species, we each brought a different topic to the table to talk about.  We talked about baby belted Kingfishers, CT scanning birds, different bird dialects, and a movie idea where a brown-headed cowbird leaves an egg in a human's bassinet. What genre would that movie be? Listen to find out! Join John Bates, Shannon Hackett, RJ Pole, and Amanda Marquart for this week's episode of Birds of a Feather Talk Together. Please send us your questions for us to answer as well! You can send them to podcast.birdsofafeather@gmail.comMake sure to follow us on instagram and tik tok as well!!Enjoy!

00:02:00 - Koan - 'Not Helping' 00:08:47 - Exercise - in Groups of - 1. Reflect on the Koan for 5 minutes - 2. Speak to what it brings up in you, if anything 00:08:55 - Joel Invites Participants to Share Koan taken from : Zen Master Raven: Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird - 2002 - Robert Aitken 'Not Helping' After a talk by Raven about the Precepts, Woodpecker said, “The Cowbird lays her eggs in the Wren's nest and the two wrens have to hustle to feed the cowbird's baby as well as their own. I don't see why the wrens stand for it, especially since the cowbirds baby is a lot bigger, and theirs has a huge appetite. Maybe the wrens are really Bodhisattvas, selflessly devoted to helping others”. Raven said “They arn't helping the Cowbirds”

Brown-headed cowbirds don't build nests - instead they sneak into other nests and lay their eggs and let other birds raise their young for them. Many consider them 'mafia' birds, as they will destroy another bird's nest if they aren't raising their young correctly. These parasitic birds will outgrow the other chicks in the nest, its kind of like a horror story! Hear all about these bizarre birds in this awesome episode of Birds of a Feather Talk Together. John Bates, Shannon Hackett, RJ Pole, and Amanda Marquart discuss the brown-headed cowbird. Please follow our instagram @birds_of_a_feather_podcast Please send us your questions for us to answer as well! You can send them to podcast.birdsofafeather@gmail.com

As most young male birds get ready to leave the nest, they learn their species' song by hearing their male parent sing it again and again. They imprint on their father's song. So how does a Brown-headed Cowbird, raised by parents of a different species, learn to sing the correct song? The “chatter call” of an adult cowbird triggers something in the young bird's brain. Like a kind of “password,” the chatter call guides the young bird in recognizing what species to identify with, even though cowbirds are fostered by as many as 220 different species!More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.

Meyers Sustainable Packaging Guide eBookApurba's LinkedInapurba@everestlabs.ai to connect directlySponsor information!If you listened to the podcast and wanted to connect with Specright to rid the world of waste. Let's go! www.specright.com/pkg. Prepare your company for the world of EPR laws and be the sustainability hero! Make sure you check them out and join them on their mission to have a world where people are free to make amazing things!New sponsor coming next week!!!Deciphr.ai summary.Summary/AbstractApurba Pradhan, head of product and marketing at Everest Labs, joined the People of Packaging podcast from his garage in Oakland. The conversation began with basketball, as Apurba is a fan of Allen Iverson. They discussed how Iverson could play a role in recycling and if he could step over the Tehran Lou. Adam mentioned his experience at a chicken and waffle spot near Jason Kidd's high school. He recommended two restaurants for anyone visiting Oakland: Gus's Famous and Cowbird. Apurba expressed his excitement for the podcast and the conversation ended with a reminder to listen to Corey Cotters' sustainable Packaging podcast. The conversation begins with the speaker making up a joke about AI being used out in the world. The speaker then shares his journey, having been born in Nepal and then attending a boarding school in India before coming to the US to study engineering. He has worked in industries related to industrial and infrastructure for the past twenty years, and for the last six months has been working in recycling which he finds fascinating. He then talks about his experience in Nepal when he was wearing a takatopi hat, which he still has, and how it is a known fact that no one looks good in them. He then shares his experience of attending a boarding school in India for 10th grade onwards. Boarding schools are common in India and Nepal. The speaker is a Nepalese native who moved to the US and gained experience in the tech industry in Silicon Valley. He took a role at Everest Labs, a recycling company, and is focused on understanding the broader context of the industry and its impact on recycling, such as the packaging industry, the circular economy, and supply chain. He listens to understand what people need and tries to merge that with what the company builds. He has a good idea of the technology and solutions the company builds, but relies on the engineers for a deeper understanding. The speaker is a co-founder of Everest, a company that works to marry the capabilities of AI and robotics with what people are saying to help improve the efficiency of recycling. The company has been running for five years, with a product launched a year ago that has been gaining traction with Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs). Everest's solution helps MRFs automate the recovery process by utilizing AI and robotics. This allows them to quickly and precisely sort through commodity that is sold. The data gathered from the AI also assists in making decisions around equipment optimization and maintenance. The company is currently working with MRFs that have an interest in their technology to get the capabilities installed.Timestamps0:00:02Interview with Apurba Pradhan, Head of Product and Marketing at Everest Labs0:02:29Conversation with Everest Labs CEO on Growing Up in Nepal and His Journey to Artificial Intelligence0:06:24Conversation with Everest Labs CEO on Tech Background and Education in Nepal0:08:30Heading: Marrying Technology and Recycling: How Everest is Helping Material Recovery Facilities Recover Better0:12:18Conversation Summary: Exploring the Value of Data in Recycling Facilities0:15:28"Exploring the Challenges of Automated Recycling Solutions"0:19:35Heading: Automating Murphs with AI and Robotics: A Discussion on Performance Guarantees and 24/7 Monitoring0:24:13Heading: Exploring the Growing Demand for High Quality Recyclables0:26:08Heading: Automation Solutions for Growing Demand: Apurva from Everest Labs Discusses ROI in Two Months0:28:30Interview with Apurba Das, CEO of Everestlabs AIHighlightsAnd then this industry is like, five years old. If you think about it started in 2018. So things are shaping up and policy shaping up. People are starting to think about how, like you said, the demand for high quality recyclable material is there. And so how do you get it to be high quality? Right? Like, you need automation and you need sort of QC quality control at the end of these facilities to do that.. So the demand is there. Demand is growing, and we are one part of the solution. I think there's probably lots of different solutions, but yeah, I think I was at a trade show and I was blown away. I was talking to somebody. They're coming from India. They're buying stuff here. They're buying sort of mid grade, high grade plastics because they can't get it in India. Shipping it back, processing it there, shipping it back here to meet the demand. Now, if there's enough money in the supply chain to do that I didn't ask him the nickel and dime of his business, how much profit he's making or anything, but he seemed like a fairly wealthy guy running a big shop.And so we also know that they don't have the staff and the technicians and all who can sort of manage fleets of robotics, right? So it's kind of like, hey, I like what I'm hearing, but how am I going to do this? So one of the layers on top of that we've added is 24/7 monitoring and performance guarantee. So we actually release our systems and we basically monitor the performance, make sure that it's hitting a minimum threshold that's in our contracts that guarantee a certain number of picks per minute, certain amount of efficiency in that line.We are working with all the Merfs that have an interest in this to get this capability installed. Where we are looking to go is the value that the data brings not just to the operations for the merths, but to people who are designing packaging for the producers that are manufacturing these packaging, for policy organizations that are trying to figure out what to do with recycling policies and producer responsibilities. And so that's kind of like the part that we're sort of looking forward into.And we launched a product about a year, a little bit over a year ago that's been quietly gaining a lot of traction with Mirfs. So that's where we are. That's our bread and butter. Is we sell a solution that incorporates AI and robotics and we deploy them at Mirfs. And the whole idea is to provide them with data and intelligence about how their operations are running, but also help them recover. So automate the whole recovery process, because the recovery process in Merfs are fairly inefficient, and at the end of the day, there are people standing at the end of these lines that are cleaning up what's supposed to be clean streams of commodity that are going into the recycling supply chain. But there are people standing there because the equipment that they use, it's sort of semi imprecise, right? And there's sort of quality levels that when a Merv sells aluminum cans, for example, or pet bottles, there's a level of expectation around how pure that is.I love it. And let's hang out on that answer here for a quick second. So you're spending a lot of time listening to both your customers or the consumers or these government agencies or whatever it is. You're gathering data there, and then you're taking that back and you're listening to engineers on what it is that Everest can do. So where are you at today in terms of either what you've built or what are you as a company doing to meet the needs of all these different stakeholders in the recycling space? Get full access to Packaging Is Awesome with Adam Peek at www.packagingisawesome.com/subscribe

In this podcast, Kristen tells Maeve facts about a bird a week. This week, we're covering a brood parasite with a heart of gold--the cowbird, a bird widely known for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds! Escape into nature with us and away from your daily life--and learn a thing or two along the way.  Shownotes: Research for today's episode came from the following sources: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown-headed_Cowbird/overview https://nestwatch.org/learn/general-bird-nest-info/brown-headed-cowbirds/ https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/if-brown-headed-cowbirds-are-reared-by-other-species-how-do-they-know-they-are-cowbirds-when-they-grow-up/ https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/brown-headed-cowbird Additional references for listeners: https://nestwatch.org/learn/general-bird-nest-info/brown-headed-cowbirds/ https://www.audubon.org/news/is-it-okay-remove-cowbird-eggs-host-nests Follow us on Instagram: @birdfactspod Email us: birdfactspod@gmail.com Thanks for listening, and happy birding!

In today's episode, Paul and Noah discuss the Brown-headed Cowbird. Show edited and engineered by Paul O'Mara. Ambient bird sounds by Noah Kalina. Additional bird sounds sourced from Macaulay Library. Show and episode art sourced from the Library of Congress. Follow us on Twitter @thebestbirdpod Support the show and view extra content on Patreon.

Have you ever heard a mockingbird imitate a blue jay? How about a seal imitating a Maine fisherman? This month, the guys explore what happens when animals make sounds they're not supposed to: the wild world of vocal mimicry. Birds imitate chainsaws and car alarms, elephants speak Korean; what's going on? With a special focus on one of the bird world's best known mimics - the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) - the guys delve into the research trying to explain why animals - especially birds - feel the need to engage in the wildlife equivalent of, “I know you are, but what am I?” Episode NotesSteve wondered about the similarity between the scientific names of the northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) and monkeyflowers (in the genus Mimulus). Turns out that both refer to mimicking; the mockingbird (whose scientific name means ““many-tongued mimic”) imitates the sounds of other species, and the monkeyflowers have flowers that, at least to some, seem to have grinning faces resembling those of monkeys.Bill mentioned that the viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus) is often mistakenly cited as an example of Batesian mimicry. What's up with that? Here's what the University of Wisconsin has to say about it: “Ecologists have long preached that Viceroys have enjoyed a Batesian “Get-out-of-Jail-Free” card due to their resemblance to the toxic Monarch butterfly (Batesian mimicry—the harmless imitating the harmful). Monarchs are poisonous because their caterpillar host plant, milkweed, contains harmful cardiac glycosides. Recent research suggests that because willow leaves are very bitter, the Viceroy may be almost as distasteful as Monarchs. In that case, Monarchs and Viceroys are mimicking each other, each cashing in on the other's bad reputation (Mullerian mimicry).”Check out episode 34: The Downy-Hairy Game for more info on Batesian and Mullerian mimicryThe guys wondered, “Are there any large passerines (songbirds/perching birds)?” The largest seem to be in the raven family; “The heaviest and altogether largest passerines are the thick-billed raven and the larger races of common raven, each exceeding 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) and 70 cm (28 in). The superb lyrebird and some birds-of-paradise, due to very long tails or tail coverts, are longer overall.” (Source: Wikipedia)The guys briefly discussed mobbing behavior in birds, and Bill mentioned a couple of suspected reasons behind the behavior. He regretted not mentioning what is accepted as the most likely reason: to drive away predators! Steve wondered, “Did mimicry evolve independently?” According to a 2018 study, “Vocal mimicry evolved independently at least 237 times and was lost at least 52 times.”Since brown headed cowbirds are nest parasites and don't raise their own young, how do their young learn the brown headed cowbird song? Turns out that the good people at BirdNote did an episode on this very topic in 2021! Here's the takeaway from the episode transcript” “Scientists think that when a young cowbird hears the “chatter call” of an adult cowbird, something is triggered in its brain, and it begins to learn the song of its own species. Like a kind of “password,” the chatter call guides the young bird in recognizing what species to identify with. Then, when the young cowbird is ready — probably when it's two years old — and hears an adult male Brown-headed Cowbird sing, it will imprint on that song. It's a remarkable adaptation, even more so when you consider that cowbirds are fostered by as many as 220 different species. And they still wind up learning their own song.”LinksFind out more about Hoover, the talking seal.A clip of the superb lyrebird from the incomparable David Attenborough and his series Lives of BirdsHead down a fascinating rabbithole and explore the world of mimicryMeet Koshik, the elephant that speaks Korean SupportThe Field Guides PatreonMake a onetime Paypal donation.The Field Guides Merch ShopOur SponsorsGumleaf Boots, USAAlways Wandering ArtPhoto Credit(c) bluewing – some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)Works CitedAncillotto, L., Pafundi, D., Cappa, F., Chaverri, G., Gamba, M., Cervo, R. and Russo, D., 2022. Bats mimic hymenopteran insect sounds to deter predators. Current Biology, 32(9), pp.R408-R409. Gammon, D.E. and Altizer, C.E., 2011. Northern mockingbirds produce syntactical patterns of vocal mimicry that reflect taxonomy of imitated species. Journal of Field Ornithology, 82(2), pp.158-164. Howard, R.D., 1974. The influence of sexual selection and interspecific competition on mockingbird song (Mimus polyglottos). Evolution, pp.428-438.Owen-Ashley, N.T., Schoech, S.J. and Mumme, R.L., 2002. Context-specific response of Florida scrub-jay pairs to northern mockingbird vocal mimicry. The Condor, 104(4), pp.858-865.

Brown-headed Cowbirds have a sneaky approach to parenthood. They lay eggs in the nests of other songbirds, and the songbird hosts often raise the cowbird chick as their own. It's called nest parasitism. But sometimes the hosts throw out the odd-looking egg. And when that happens, the cowbirds sometimes retaliate by destroying the hosts' other eggs. Scientists call this “mafia behavior,” likening it to organized crime groups enforcing their demands on unwilling business partners. More info and transcript at BirdNote.org. Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.

When biologist Danielle Whittaker started studying bird odors, some scientists tried to discourage her, claiming that birds can't smell. But that only deepened her curiosity. Once, she caught a whiff of a cowbird, which smelled to her like sugar cookies. Danielle and her colleagues studied Dark-eyed Juncos and found that they produce many odors that help influence breeding behavior. Learn more in Danielle Whittaker's new book, The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent.

Everyone loves a growing family...Don't they?Thanks for listening. You can visit us on Twitter @IntotheNightPod Email us at itnanthology@gmail.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/intothenightpod  On the CastJunkie Discord server under the podcasts heading https://discord.gg/wgmw5dKFMwNarrated and produced by Nari Kwak.Find her on Twitter @NariKwak_VA                                                           Email narikwak.voa@gmail.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/nari.kwak.904            You can support Nari and this podcast at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NariKwakWritten by Caroline GiammancoFind her on Twitter @giammancobook Music Created by Alex SextonFind him on Twitter @ghostanoid                  Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/ghostanoid Theme music by Nico RodriguezFind him Twitter @NicoRodDM

With its awe-inspiring vistas and eons of geologic time on display, the Grand Canyon also offers a unique habitat for birds. What you're likely to see first is a Bronzed Cowbird, strutting on the lawn of a lodge or restaurant. Common Ravens call and squabble. If you're lucky, you may spot the largest of all North American birds, a California Condor! Learn more at BirdNote.org.

As most young male birds get ready to leave the nest, they learn their species' song by hearing their male parent sing it again and again. They imprint on their father's song. So how does a Brown-headed Cowbird, raised by parents of a different species, learn to sing the correct song? The “chatter call” of an adult cowbird triggers something in the young bird's brain. Like a kind of “password,” the chatter call guides the young bird in recognizing what species to identify with, even though cowbirds are fostered by as many as 220 different species! Learn more at BirdNote.org.

When illustrator Diana Sudyka was in second grade, she was given a Peterson’s Bird Field Guide. She still remembers making her first bird ID — a Brown-headed Cowbird. Even years later, Sudyka’s love of birds has stuck with her. She recently illustrated the children’s book, How to Find a Bird, by

Pity the poor cowbird. Under-appreciated at best and outright hated at worst, the cowbird and its nest parasitic ways certain lend themselves to strong opinions. But it is a remarkable bird in its own right, capable of amazing developmental feats that allow it to fit into its very odd niche. Ornithologist Sarah Winnicki of the University of Illinois's "cowbird lab" makes the case for cowbirds, arguing that you don't have to love the, but you should respect them. Also, a Snowy Owl in Central Park? Uh oh. And another Pileated Woodpecker story from listener Jordan Leahy.  ABA members are eligible for a 15% discount to Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Birds of the World subscription. Log into your ABA account to get the code. Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Play, and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it!

SummaryBrood parasitism is a strange and fascinating behavior that we see (in one form or another) in several hundred bird species.This is where a female lays an egg in the nest of another bird. The parasite female flies away and never sees her offspring. The host bird or birds are fooled into raising the foreign chick as their own.Learn about which types of birds use this breeding strategy, including cuckoos and cowbirds.We’ll discuss the various tactics used by both the parasites and their hosts in this evolutionary arms race. And we’ll get into some ins and outs of the evolutionary process in these birds.Links of InterestVideo of a cuckoo parasitizing the nest of a parrotbillLink to this episode on the Science of Birds websiteErrors and ClarificationsAt 07:38, I say that the only obligate brood parasite bird species in North America is the Brown-headed Cowbird. But the Bronzed Cowbird (Molothrus aeneus) lives in Mexico year round and breeds in some southern American states (AZ, CA, NM, TX, and LA).

This bird is widespread in South Carolina.

As much as Laura likes cowbirds, she thinks it's best not to subsidize them with food. She explains why.

Sarah Caldwell, who listens to this program on WDRT, asked Laura to talk about a fascinating bird, the Brown-headed Cowbird .

Is there an evolutionary arms race between birds trying to hide eggs and birds trying to find eggs?  If so, who is racing who? Brood parasites (like many species of Cowbird and Cuckoo) lay their eggs in other birds' nests to trick a host species into raising their chicks. It's easy to imagine that all the drama and competition arise from conflict between an unwilling host species and sneaky parasite. But what if the parasite birds' main competitors are other parasites? This month, we're chatting all about this nesting strategy and the possible evolutionary drivers of one parasite's stealth adaptations. Read the paper here: "Grey Gerygone hosts are not egg rejecters, but Shining Bronze-Cuckoos lay cryptic eggs," (Thorogood et al, 2017). This is part I of a two-part mini-series on brood parasites; check back in August for part II!

Completing a late afternoon stroll in the Barkpeelings. Lounging on a moss sofa, listening to the chorus. Observations on the Cowbirds’ egg-depositing-deception and dereliction of parenting duty. Credits & Links: Click the links below for details about the bird vocalizations used in this episode from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Ruby-throated...

The Northern Waterthrush arrives late April in the Hamilton area, preferring swampy forested habitat. Its song is described as a loud and ringing warble, that accelerates into a jumble of quick notes. For the trained ear, it is similar to the related Yellow Warbler.This soundscape is derived from recordings made in the morning of April 25, 2019 at Hayesland Swamp Nature Sanctuary, Flamborough, Ontario.You will hear: American Robin, Northern Waterthrush, Wild Turkey, Song Sparrow, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, American Crow, White-breasted Nuthatch, Black-capped Chickadee, Brown Creeper, Red-winged Blackbird, Brown-headed Cowbird, Rusty Blackbird (very briefly), Northern Flicker, Canada Goose.Audio editing: Rob PorterAudio sourced from the Hamilton Bioacoustics Research Project of the Hamilton Naturalists' Club.For more information, see http://hamiltonnature.org/songscapes

A continuous soundscape of morning field recordings from the Vinemount Meadows Nature Sanctuary in Vinemount, Ontario, Canada on April 7, 2019. Mildly edited to remove louder anthrogenic sounds.You will continually hear: Song Sparrow, Red-winged Blackbird, and American RobinAlso present from time to time: Mallard (or American Black Duck) , Canada Goose, Ring-billed Gull, Herring Gull, White-throated Sparrow, European Starling, Northern Cardinal, Savannah Sparrow, Common Grackle, Blue Jay, American Crow, Downy Woodpecker , Eastern Meadowlark, Brown-headed Cowbird , Red Squirrel, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Dark-eyed Junco, and Winter Wren.Audio sourced from the Hamilton Bioacoustics Research Project & Hamilton Naturalists' ClubAudio editing: Rob Porter The original raw field recordings are available under Creative Commons license at archive.org.For more information, see http://hamiltonnature.org/songscapes

Why do we call them "cowbirds," and why are they nicknamed "mafia birds"? Does the mafia still exist? Are cowbirds running an extortion racket in my backyard? Macken answers all on this episode of Species. Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YkTHau7VoFc5JrdXYl-kYuIwA1XlRATPBxL1djKyEKE/edit?usp=sharing

House finches that use cigarette butts in the nest may get some insect protection. Canuck the Crow is causing some mail delivery problems. Also, you can follow him on Facebook. Eagle mistakes testicles for turtle eggs (fake news).Report your dickcissels. BSBO and ABC stops a wind turbine on the Great Lakes.  

This hour, “I do” or “do I?” the calculus for marriage, for better and for worse. Majd’s Diary: Two Years in the Life of a Saudi Girl by Joe Richman and Sarah Kramer (Radio Diaries, 2016) A few years ago, Radio diaries teamed up with Cowbird, a public storytelling website and held a competition to find a fresh voice. They discovered Majd Abdulghani, a muslim teenager in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a young woman under pressure from her parents to consider an arranged marriage. How Will I Know? by Andrea Silenzi (Why Oh Why, 2016) Andrea Silenzi, host of the relationship podcast Why Oh Why, looks back at the role the show has played in her personal life. Travel through the past three years as Andrea talks to her editor, Hillary Frank, about what’s going on in her relationship. Choose Responsibly by Dennis Funk (Re:sound debut, 2017) Choosing a partner is just a game, or is it? The Wedding Song by Yenting Hsu (ARTE Radio, 2011) At the time of her marriage, a Paiwan princess bids farewell to her family... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hwa Jin Jeong is a Korean adoptee and a radio and multimedia professional living in Brooklyn, NY.  Originally from Washington, DC, and Denver, Hwa Jin Jeong attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where she studied radio production.  Currently, she curates multimedia stories and builds a global community of storytellers as the Editorial Director at Cowbird.  Songs from A Collective Effort are available at SoundCloud (Http://soundcloud.com/acollectiveeffortmusic/sets/a-collective-effort-mix-bag) and other music of the podcast comes courtesy of Needle Drop Records by the band, The Bell.     Follow me on Twitter @TheRamblerADHD, email me at TheRamblerADHD@gmail.com, and like/share me on Facebook at Facebook.com/TheRamblerADHD.  If you like the podcast, please be so kind as to leave a nice review on iTunes.  Thanks for listening!

Why build a nest?

Short and Sweet: Mid month we bring you something short. Whitney Jones (producer at PITCH) tells us about his first love, and 27 other firsts in chronological order. Originally produced on Cowbird.  You will also hear some previews of first kisses, which we’ll be sharing at our Launch Party.  

ORIGINALLY BROADCAST JULY 18, 2013 Jonathan Harris is a storyteller has spoken at TED, co-designed the Vermont state coin and runs a storytelling site called Cowbird, among many, many other things. He was here in Sydney in May 2013 to talk at Vivid Ideas, but he took an hour to tell us all about the music that he loves. Full show notes and playlist at http://fbiradio.com/programs/out-of-the-box/2014-12-04/

We’ve teamed up with the creator of the Future of Storytelling summit to showcase cutting edge technologies that are fundamentally changing the way stories are delivered in the 21st century. This session will explore Interlude’s interactive videos with multiple story lines and outcomes; Cowbird, a global online public library of human experience; the way Quill translates structured data into natural language narratives; and Wattpad, a thriving social platform for publishing stories. The very way narratives of all kinds are are collected and shared will surprise you. Kristian Hammond, Yoni Bloch, Jonathan Harris, Charles Melcher, Candice Faktor

This week we have four short stories from fantastic contributors. They all have to do with the beginning, middle, and/or end of a relationship. Huge thanks to Dave Pickering, Jonathan Harris, Whitney Jones, and Dave Huth for letting us use their stories on the show. Also thanks to Cowbird – a great storytelling site where three of this week's stories were originally published. Read more: http://ilikeyoupodcast.com/2012/07/75-start-to-finish/

Annie Correal knows all about the nature of the news reporting business and the internet of news feeds and hypersharing. But she also knows a world where people take time to tell their stories and listen to one another. The online world of reading, writing and recording where taking time and moving perhaps a little more slowly, is well worth the wait. Her work with both Cowbird and Radio Ambulante reveals two such places where people from all walks of life are coming together, and sharing life in a very significant way. Today on the podcast I get to know Annie Correal, and ask her questions about how she got started as a journalist to how and why these two special projects became part of her life. Join us for what I believe is a very important and enjoyable conversation. Then go tell stories of your own!

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The native Brown-headed Cowbird is notorious for its unusual approach to raising its young, or the lack thereof.