Podcasts by Your Bird Story
Your Bird Story centers the voices of everyday people and their encounters and relationships with wild birds in cities.
The podcast is hosted by Georgia Silvera Seamans and is edited and produced by Pod to the People.
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Moshassuck River Wildlife from 2023-11-09T15:06:24
The Friends of the Moshassuck River is led by Greg Gerritt. He has a 50-year history in environmental advocacy from NYC to Rhode Island. From the Friends website: "The Narragansett Indians ...
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Encore: Creatures of the Sky from 2023-10-12T17:00
In honor of fall bird migration and Halloween, we are re-airing this episode about the birds of African diasporic myth and folklore. Enjoy it again or for the first time.
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Nate Swick Wants You to Bird How You Want To from 2023-09-14T13:41
We sit down with Nate Stick to talk about his sciency childhood, his career path, his blog, fave bird facts, and his bird watching strategies which he wrote about in his book, Birding for th...
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Rodney Stotts, Caring for People and Birds through Falconry from 2023-08-09T17:23
Don't call Rodney Stotts a master falconer. He told me other people gave him the label. He focuses on relationships between birds and people. During our conversation, Rodney refused to choos...
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Katy Tanis is More of a Bird-Bird Person Than She Thinks from 2023-07-13T23:25
Katy Tanis, children's book writer and illustrator and pattern designer, describes herself as "not a bird-bird person." In our conversation, Katy talks about Edward and Annie Listen
Birds of a Lesson: Devan Aptekar and Middle School Science from 2023-06-08T15:41
In this episode Devan Aptekar shares his joyful journey of being a science teacher in a New York City middle school. Devan's goal for students is for them to graduate middle school believing...
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Dr. Leo Douglas, Bird Ties that Connect Jamaica and West Africa from 2023-05-11T15:00:34
How do you disrupt the "great forgetting machine" that is colonialism? Biologist and zoologist Dr. Leo Douglas offers this observation among many: "The more we can encourage peopl...
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Wildlife Surveyors in Washington Square Park from 2023-04-13T15:15:35
Our sister program, Washington Square Park Eco Projects, has been conducting a wildlife survey in Washington...
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Julie Peppito, Environmental Artist for the Birds from 2023-03-09T23:19:15
Environmental artist Julie Peppito talks with us about the origin of her art, her family ties to New York, the materials she uses in her "creature-like s...
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Creatures of the Sky with Kene'h Oweh from 2023-02-09T21:30:50
Kene'h Oweh is the creator and storyteller of By the Fire. In conversation with Ken, she shared myths and folk tales about birds and bird-like creatures of the Black diaspora. She also spoke abo...
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Monica Yadeun, Bird Protector in Mexico City from 2023-01-12T16:15:01
Monica Yadeun wears many hats. She is a veterinarian, a bird advocate, and an environmental innovator. Her initiative Pollinator Resorts is part of the World Economic Forum. She founded Guardian...
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Katie Leung Loves Raptors from 2022-12-08T16:10:23
Katie Leung's childhood interest in charismatic megafauna and predatory mammals and fish has evolved to include raptors like the Eastern Screech-Owl and the Osprey. Katie describes her previous ...
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Bird Times at a Manhattan Middle School from 2022-11-10T16:00:23
Last month, Your Bird Story x CHIRP spent two weeks with 12 science classes in a Manhattan public middle school. We showed bird specimens, prepared bird specimens, talked about birds and urban e...
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Zoey Liangzhang Birds in Beijing from 2022-10-13T15:00:59
UX designer Zoey Liangzhang caught the birding bug in New York City. Among her spark birds was a Red-tailed Hawk that spent time on her fire escape. When she returned to Beijing she immersed her...
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American Robins According to Emily Williams from 2022-09-08T15:00:27
How much do you know about the American Robin? Turdus migratorius is the focus of the doctoral research of Emily Williams, an avian ecologist. How big are robin roosts? Are female robin...
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Your Bird Story - Staff Picks from 2022-07-14T15:03:43
The Your Bird Story team listened through our 2-year archive and selected three of our favorite segments to share with you to close out Season Two. You'll hear about deterring bird-airplane conf...
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Rescuing Birds with Project Safe Flight from 2022-06-09T17:00:07
Large urban centers can be wonderful places to encounter nature. From LA to NYC, Melissa Breyer has experienced urban wildlife, and is keenly aware of threats to wildlife in cities, especially t...
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Balcony Birdwatching in Singapore from 2022-05-12T16:30:22
Shimona Quazi, a forester and researcher in Singapore, shares her childhood memories of unstructured and organic discoveries about nature. She recalls exposure to rural birds, caged birds, balco...
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Millennial Birders from 2022-04-14T15:00
In this episode, Akilah and Alyssa share their approaches to education and ethical birding. They also spotlight the human dimensions of biological diversity. As New Yorkers it's no surprise they...
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Two Good Birders from 2022-04-14T15:00
In this episode, Akilah and Alyssa share their approaches to education and ethical birding. They also spotlight the human dimensions of biological diversity. As New Yorkers it's no surprise they...
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Three Ways to Know Birds from 2022-03-10T15:00
Loyan Beausoleil, the Nature Notes writer for the podcast, joins us to talk about her bird life and the ways in which she has come to know birds and how she shares her knowledge about birds with...
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Global Birding with Wambui Ippolito from 2022-02-10T17:55:51
Wambui Ippolito's storytelling is exquisite and vibrant. She takes on us a back-and-forth global journey of land, people, birds, and plants from East Africa to New York City and places in betwee...
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Everyday Birding with Kate Hinds from 2022-01-13T16:03:32
You might know the New Yorker in this episode for her work on our local NPR station. But radio producer Kate Hinds is also a bird watcher. Kate shares her beginnings in the bird world, her famil...
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Parent Birders, Part 2 from 2021-12-09T16:00
In Part Two of the two-part Parent Birders series, we speak with Jen then Bryony about their pre- and post- parenthood birdwatching. We learn about birding in the moment and creating experiences...
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Parent Birders, Part 1 from 2021-11-11T16:00
Being a parent and watching birds. Can you and how do you do both at the same time? How do you weave birdwatching into the rituals you share with your child? When and where do you make space for...
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Birding Botanist from 2021-10-14T18:05:17
For today's episode, we spoke with Tatyana Soto, a biologist and plant ecologist, about her newfound passion, birding. Tatyana shares her spark moment and spark bird and talks about her patch an...
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Bird Programs from 2021-08-12T16:19:25
We are back with Season 2 of Your Bird Story, made possible with a Puffin Foundation grant!
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Bird Girls from 2021-06-11T00:52:42
We are excited to release "Bird Girls" as the Season 1 finale of the Your Bird Story podcast! In this episode, four girls -- Baker, Zoe, Fernanda, and Clara -- enthusiastically share their bird ...
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Yard Birding, Part 2 from 2021-05-13T18:05:56
You don't need "start up investment" to watch birds. Kate Wong recommends going outside or standing by your window "and see who flies by." Thank you, Kate! And thank you for listening to Your Bi...
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Yard Birding, Part 1 from 2021-04-08T14:00
During the spring migration season of 2020, many more people were home to observe the sudden filling up of greenspaces with birds. Talk about a room with a view. From their bay window, Arindam a...
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Patch Birding from 2021-03-11T15:00
Birds and trees go together like peanut butter and jelly! We speak with another tree person on today's episode about patch birding. Do you have a patch--a place you go to regularly to watch bird...
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Dr. Thomas Easley from 2021-02-11T14:38:23
You might be familiar with the saying, "you cannot see the forest for the trees." You are so focused on the details (the trees) that you lose sight of the big picture (the forest). In this two-p...
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A Black Forester Comes to Birding from 2021-02-11T14:38:23
You might be familiar with the saying, "you cannot see the forest for the trees." You are so focused on the details (the trees) that you lose sight of the big picture (the forest). In this two-p...
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In the Field from 2020-12-10T15:00:09
We miss recording bird stories in the field! In this special episode we share three of our field recordings. First up, John talks about watching a red-tailed hawk capture a rat in Prospect Park,...
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Introducing Your Bird Story from 2020-12-07T16:06:31
People in urban settings have positive relationships with nature including birds. Your Bird Story is an audio archive of the different and many ways in which everyday people interact with wild b...
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Spark Bird from 2020-11-12T18:58:35
Do you have a spark bird, that is, a species that tuned you into watching and listening to birds? In this month's episode Melissa Yang (the pigeon) and Abra Lee (cardinal & ...
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