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In this, the seventh episode of Wild Bird Acoustics, we follow my quest to record an elusive duck species, Common Pochard. My eventual aim was to field record the species remarkable courtship display, you can follow that journey in the first section of this podcast. Apart from discussing the challenges of locating and recording this elusive species, I share several other bird recordings captured during these outings, such as the amazing calls of Northern Goshawk, a displaying Little Grebe, singing Goldcrest, and Eurasian Jay mimicking other species' calls. Following this initial section, I will take you to the Stockholm Archipelago in late autumn, on a rather special day in November, when all the stars aligned and I managed some wonderful audio of some rather special Swedish bird species....00:20 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics00:35 The Quest for Common Pochard01:22 The Challenges of locating breeding Common Pochard03:40 The final piece of the Jigsaw; Common Pochard's Courtship Display04:55 Another Journey to Norra Djurgarden05:06 The Encounter with Common Pochard06:40 Other Encounters: Coot and Little Grebe08:43 The Successful Recording of Common Pochard23:04 A Surprise Encounter with Northern Goshawk31:16 The Final Recordings and Reflections32:20 Preview of the Next Episode: Autumn in Landsort33:20 The Field Magazine: A Day in Landsort33:40 The Search for Spotted Nutcracker34:24 Encounters with Bohemian Waxwing and Northern Bullfinch47:26 Success! An audio recording of Spotted Nutcracker...53:08 Conclusion and Call to ActionSupport the showLots more audio related material here at my long running website;https://blogbirder.blogspot.com/
Life history of the northern goshawk.
A captivating new album from the extraordinary talents of Edward Cowie, a true master of multiple disciplines. This remarkable polymath, renowned as a composer, visual artist, and natural scientist, has gifted us his exhilarating third epic cycle of 'bird portraits' - a thrilling 24-movement composition for clarinet(s) and piano.TracksCD 1Book 1 American Fish Crow (4:30) Wood Thrush (3:03) Eastern Meadowlark (4:05) Common Loon (4:25) Belted Kingfisher (3:15) American Winter Wren (3:54) Book 2 Broad-tailed and Blue-throated Hummingbirds (3:11) White-winged Dove (3:50) Common Nighthawk (4:39) Greater Roadrunner (2:09) Least Bittern (3:48) Great Horned Owl (2:38) CD 2Book 3 Blue Jay (2:28) Mockingbird (3:55) Yellow Crowned Night Heron (3:46) Northern Goshawk (3:11) Say's Phoebe (4:09) Red Winged Blackbird (3:23) Book 4 Northern Cardinal (5:22) Virginia Rail (3:00) Turkey Vultures (4:20) Yellow-breasted Chat (3:25) Horned Lark (5:53) Bald Eagle (5:31) Help support our show by purchasing this album at:Downloads (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by Uber and Apple Classical. @CMDHedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber#AppleClassical Please consider supporting our show, thank you!Donate (classicalmusicdiscoveries.store) staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.comThis album is broadcast with the permission of Sean Dacy from Rosebrook Media.
It's split and lump season again, and that means that we turn to our friend Nick Block, professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. He's the person we talk to when it comes to predicting the decisions of the American Ornithological Society's North America Classification Committee. It's another busy slate for this summer including a possible Western Flycatcher lump, splits to Northern Goshawk and Hepatic Tanager and more. Also Black Birders Week wraps up another great year. And don't forget to sign up for our ABA Community Weekend in San Francisco, California, next weekend! Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Google Podcasts, and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it!
In this episode, Wes and Todd sit down with South Dakota Artist, Mark Zimmerman. Mark discusses living in the Black Hills, his love of the Plains and wide open spaces, squares, being a South Dakota Arts Council Artist in Residence, working in rural schools and communities, the Art Center in Jamestown, the magic of teaching kids art, working with cancer patients at the Sanford Cancer Center, the healing power of art, his art education, the distinction between painting and drawing, the Suzie Cappa Art Center, go to work attitude, routine, pushing paint, rocking chairs, process, landscapes, Green Ink Gallery, dyslexia, writing, ink transfer drawing, searching for the visual language for his new work, synesthesia, climate change and the environment, Coneflowers, the Northern Goshawk, reducing lenses, passion, painting and prose.Join us for a fantastic conversation with the phenomenally profound Artist, Mark Zimmerman.Check out Mark's work at the website www.greeninkgalleryandstudios.comCheck out Mark's writing at https://greeninkseen.blogspot.comFollow Mark Zimmerman on social media:On Instagram at www.instagram.com/mark_z_art/@mark_z_artOn Facebook at www.facebook.com/mark.zimmerman.16
Bree Tucker is a Canadian birder who enjoys getting out there to see birds! Find out more about Northern Goshawk!Connect with me on Twitter, email, or website. Northern GoshawkIngredients16 oz Ale (I used a Red Ale)1 shot Grey GooseDirections1. Pour in the vodka2. Top it off with the Ale
Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a survey that showed the total number of marine species at risk within the Salish Sea doubled between 2002 and 2015. While the Discovery Islands are within the study area, the EPA study did not list specific locations. So Cortes Currents asked Max Thaysen, President of the Friends of Cortes Island, about the species of risk in our area. The Friends of Cortes Island identified 33 Species of Risk that live on Cortes Island either part-time, or year round. They have devoted specific pages on their website to 17 of these: Barn Swallow, Big-eared Bat, Blue Dasher Dragon Fly, Coastal Cutthroat Trout, Common Nighthawk, Great Blue Heron, Harbor Porpoises, Northern Goshawk, Northern Pygmy Owl, North Red-Legged Frog, Pacific Sideband Snail, Silver Spotted Skipper, Sooty Grouse, Steller Sea Lion, Threaded Vertigo, Western Screech Owl Western Toad. There are species whose situation is improving. FOCI is collecting reports of Humpback Whale sightings. Last April, FOCI and the HAKAI Institute partnered to organize a new citizen science sea star monitoring program on Cortes Island. During the summer, FOCI asked Cortes Island residents to submit photos of any Great Blue Heron they saw. On Heron Day, September 5th, volunteers counted 15 Great Blue Heron. In the course of our interview, Thaysen mentioned another species FOCI is observing. Forage Fish are not considered ‘commercially significant,' but they are critical to many other lifeforms around Cortes Island. Thaysen explained that, as a society, FOCI doesn't have the resources for an in depth study of the species at risk in our area. “I'm interested because the species extinction rate serves as a really good indicator of what's happening on the planet,” he said. “Scientists fairly consistently come up with a rough estimate of our current species extinction rate on planet earth as being a hundred times greater than the normal extinction rate.” Thaysen described the EPA study as “a pretty serious indictment,” on the scale of the “asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs.” The report states, “34% of all birds and 43% of all mammals that use this ecosystem are threatened, endangered or are candidates for status assessments.” This is worrisome because they are at the top of the food chain. For example, the health of Southern Resident Killer Whales is important because they are apex predators. “A healthy population of Southern Resident Killer Whales indicates the health of the whole food web beneath that. If they're doing well: then salmon are doing well; herring are doing well; prawns and shrimp are doing well; the river systems are doing well and the ocean systems are doing well. Pollution is sort of under control. So what I think this report is saying, when it says that the number of Marine birds and mammals becoming at risk is particularly worrisome, is that they indicate the health of the ecosystem.”
My guest Brian Nicholas, an avid birder from the Northeast Coast who participates in the Tucson Bird Count and leads birds walks. Brian tells us all about the Historic Canoa Ranch, why you shouldn't approach a Northern Goshawk's nest and the joys of having a backyard bird habitat. As a bonus, around the 30-minute mark, a Brown-crested Flycatcher makes a cameo "appearance."
Meet three of the most fearsome predatory birds. The Northern Goshawk is a silver blur when it rockets toward an unsuspecting grouse. The Brown Snake-Eagle snatches six-foot cobras off the ground. And the Eurasian Eagle-Owl preys on animals as large as deer fawns.
I'm joined by Rob and Pete to talk through the season finale. Thank god that's over. I hope we all enjoyed the collective sigh of relief that the final whistle brought. What did we make of the award winners? How good is Andy Rolls at gardening? We'll have an episode next week reviewing the season. I'm so tired of the podcast right now. Need a rest for sure. I'm sure you're all the same!
[caption id="attachment_3573" align="alignnone" width="150"] (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bird-of-prey.png) Northern Goshawk[/caption] How many times have you been outdoors and commented to your friends about beautiful bird songs, but never giving it a second thought? What bird made the song? Why now? Why here? Explore the world of the birds we love, but are often a second thought, with master birders Hugh and Urling Kingery. Together they share their love of birds and why we should have more first thoughts, rather than second thoughts about them. Hugh and Urling Kingery take you on a journey into the world of birds. Here them explain why ravens fly in onesies and twosies, except when they don’t! Many of us are hanging out at home these days and so backyard bird watching, or close-to-home bird watching is going to be on the rise for sure. Hugh and Urling share ways to enjoy birdwatching and why we should care about the birds. Enjoy the spring air and the bird songs as you step outside. Enjoy the inspiring and full-of-life master bird watchers, Hugh and Urling Kingery. https://www.denveraudubon.org (https://www.denveraudubon.org) https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/ (https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/) Cornell's eBird link (https://ebird.org/home) Here is a link to my episodes page where you can find many more positive imprints. https://yourpositiveimprint.com/episodes/ (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/episodes/) Your Positive Imprint. What’s YOUR P.I.? [caption id="attachment_3571" align="alignnone" width="150"] (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hugh-and-urling-2.png) Hugh and Urling Kingery[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3574" align="alignnone" width="150"] (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/magpie-taunting-bird-of-prey.png) Magpie taunting Osprey[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3572" align="alignnone" width="150"] (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hugh-and-urling.png) Hugh and Urling Kingery birdwatching[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3576" align="alignnone" width="150"] (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/warbler-or-tanager.png) Western Tanager[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3575" align="alignnone" width="150"] (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hugh-and-grandchild.png) Hugh and his grandchild.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_3569" align="alignnone" width="150"] (https://yourpositiveimprint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/urling-and-grandchild.png) Urling and her grandchild[/caption]
Some of you out there seem to believe there's not much more to wildlife in Nevada than a handful of rattlesnakes, road runners and coyotes. But you better believe that Nevada is home to more than 800 non-hunted species, stretching from the Mojave Desert in southern Nevada, all the way up to the Great Basin in the northern part of the state. In this edition, TravelNevada speaks with the Nevada Department of Wildlife on the diversity of wildlife found throughout the Silver State. Best yet, Wildlife Diversity Biologist Mackenzie Jeffress describes the Northern Goshawk and American Pika as some of the more fascinating wildlife found along the Rubies Route road trip in northeastern Nevada. For more information on Mackenzie, and planning your wildlife-spotting trip throughout Nevada, please visit TravelNevada.com.
Every April for the last few years, TravelNevada has celebrated Nevada's wildlife all month long by sharing wildlife stories on the agency's social media(@travelnevada) and website(travelnevada.com). This year NDOW Wildlife Diversity Biologist Mackenzie Jeffress and her work surveying Nevada's fiercest forest raptor, the Northern Goshawk, was chosen to be featured. In this week's Nevada Wild, Ashley Sanchez talks to TravelNevada's Sydney Martinez and Rachel Wright, along with NDOW's Mackenzie Jeffress to talk about adventures you should go on for prime wildlife viewing, Mackenzie's work as a Wildlife Diversity biologist and much more!
As Helen MacDonald's "H is for Hawk" secures 2014's Book of the Year at the Costa Awards, a paper appears describing the hunting tactics of the Northern Goshawk, quite literally, from a birds' eye view. Suzanne Amador Kane of Haverford College in the US describes her work analyzing footage from tiny cameras mounted on the head of the predatory raptor. The Planck Consortium releases yet more findings from the very beginning of the universe. A new age for the very first stars confirms our best models of the universe. But analysis of the dust in our own galaxy edges out the possibility that last year's BICEP2 announcement did in fact represent evidence of inflation and the first observed primordial gravitational waves. And in the last two weeks, two giants of the twentieth century passed away. Science writer Philip Ball shares his thoughts on the lives of Carl Djerassi, father (he preferred mother) of the contraceptive pill, and Charles Townes, known as father of the Laser. Producer Alex Mansfield.