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Gordon Hempton's One Square Inch of Silence
One Square Inch of Silence, located in the Hoh Rain Forest of Olympic National Park in Washington State, is the quietest place in the Lower 48. This location is not truly silent—as the stream and...
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One Square Inch of Silence
Gordon Hempton, the Sound Tracker, seeks those rare places untouched by human noise, where birds and nature create a complex, quiet music. In the Hoh Valley, in a rain forest in Olympic National Park,...
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Finding Adventure in The Circumference of Home
Kurt Hoelting – a writer, wilderness guide, and commercial fisherman – went car-free and jet-free for one year to reduce his carbon footprint. Instead, he traveled by foot, kayak, and bicycle.Topics...
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Evolution of European Blackcaps - Featuring Mike Webster
Nature is evolving constantly. Dr. Mike Webster of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology describes an example of rapid evolution and adaptation from the world of birds. He says the European Blackcap, a...
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Rescuing CeCe the Gull
We received an interesting story from BirdNote listener, JoLee Wingerson, in Boulder, Colorado. She wrote about the rescue and rehabilitation of a Ring-billed Gull, nicknamed "CeCe." Read more:Topics...
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Restoring Bird Colonies with Social Attraction
What does relocating Caspian Terns from an island in the Columbia River have to do with luring Short-tailed Albatrosses away from an active volcano in Japan? They both use methods of social attraction...
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The Platte River Crane Plane
Every day between early October and early November, two planes fly over the Platte River in Central Nebraska. The flight crews are searching for endangered Whooping Cranes, like the one pictured here...
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Saving Florida Scrub-Jays - With Marianne Korosy
Florida Scrub-Jays are Florida’s only truly native bird. They breed nowhere else in the world. But today, their population is just 10% of what it was 200 years ago. Marianne Korosy of Audubon Florida...
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The Companionship of Birds - With Brechin Morgan
When Brechin Morgan sailed around the world by himself, he experienced severe anxiety on the second night of his voyage. A cormorant sleeping on the deck of his boat brought peace at just the right...
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Helping Birds Avoid Colliding with Glass
© Alfred YanTopics & Themes: flight, human interaction
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Biking Thousands of Miles ... for Birds
Dorian Anderson, the biking birder. Watch the video of our interview with Dorian. © Adam Sedgley11,500Topics & Themes: birding, birdwatching, environmental champion, human interaction
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The Ten Commandments of Subirdia
In his book Welcome To Subirdia, bird expert John Marzluff offers a guide for living in close proximity to birds and other wildlife.Topics & Themes: gardening, human interaction
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How Humans Affect Competition Among Birds
Evolutionary time is long — the earliest ancestors of birds emerged around 50 million years ago. Against that yardstick, the length of time humans have been living in cities is a blip.Topics &...
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Suburbs, Juncos, and Evolution
Birds have been living near humans for millions of years. But only during the past 5,000 years have birds and humans shared space in cities and towns.Topics & Themes: human interactionRelated bird:...
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The Eagle Trains the Man
A Golden Eagle perches on the arm of a Kazakh horseman in the Altai Mountains of Northwestern Mongolia. The horseman and bird are hunting golden foxes, hares, even wolves. It is said that as the man...
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Finding Your Way Home
In her book Out of the Woods, Lynn Darling describes an account of way-finding through the thick fog of coastal Greenland. An Inuit hunting party was kayaking close enough to shore to hear breaking...
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Waxwing Nightlight
The warm colors and bright accents of the Bohemian Waxwing might make you think it glows in the dark. For the better part of two thousand years, that’s what people believed. Pliny reported that their...
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Men Who Stay
BirdNote writer Todd Peterson reflects on his friend, a hunter, from Nebraska. Todd’s friend, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, has lost the urge to hunt. He sits in the duck blind, but...
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Searching for the Araripe Manakin, With Gerrit Vyn
Gerrit Vyn is a sound recordist for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He recently traveled to northeastern Brazil’s Araripe Plateau in search of the Araripe Manakin, a beautiful white bird with dark...
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Highways as Habitat for Hawks
In 1956, the Eisenhower Administration announced plans for the nation’s new interstate highway system. Planners foresaw 41,000 miles of superior highways, with a grassy border on either side and down...
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