On The Wing: Recent Episodes
David Dawson
On The Wing is the podcast magazine of birds and birding. We cover the birds, people and places that make birding one of the fastest-growing outdoor activities.
We use ID3 tags to label each edition with an Album Name, and each segment gets its own Track Number - so access is easy!
The story of the creation of the new Seward Park Environmental & Audubon Center in Seattle, from planning through groundbreaking, construction, and grand opening.
Events Calendar for May 2008.
Presque Isle Audubon Society
Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest
2008 Washington Island Birding Festival
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Park Ranger Mike Carlo is our guide.
Santa Ana NWR
City of Alamo Santa Ana NWR Page
Laguna Atascosa NWR
Roger Orness and others have been tracking the progress of a Northern Harrier nest at the Kent Ponds, south of Seattle.
Green River Natural Resources Area
Bird Surveys at the Green River Natural Resources Area
Events Calendar for September 2007:
Alabama Coastal BirdFest
Autumn Migration Birding Festival
Alaska Bald Eagle Festival
Professor John Marzluff is conducting an experiment on the University of Washington campus, investigating how crows recognize human faces.
John Marzluff
Photo by Zach Smith courtesy of Falcon Research Group
Bud Anderson describes the revolutionary Southern Cross Peregrine Project, which will use satellite tracking to follow the migration of Peregrine Falcons from Chile to the Arctic. This location information is interpreted via Google Earth - so you can easily follow along. Technologies mesh to support exciting research!
Falcon Research Group
Southern Cross Peregrine Project
Segment length: 31:46
For Earth Day 2007, Audubon Washington presented "Unleashing the Power of Audubon - Fighting Global Warming". Nina Carter introduced the program.
Gordon Orians spoke on "Ecological Effects of Climate Change".
Blackbirds of the Americas
John Flicker, President and CEO, National Audubon Society, presented "Unleashing the Power of Audubon - Fighting Global Warming".
National Audubon Society
Nina Carter, Executive Director, Audubon Washington, discussed Audubon Washington's efforts directed at global warming issues.
Audubon Washington
Padilla Bay is an estuary at the saltwater edge of the large delta of the Skagit River. Since 1980, it has been part of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System.
Padilla Bay
Events Calendar for March 2007
Florida's First Coast Birding and Nature Festival
Alaska Hummingbird Festival
Dubois Grouse Days
Verde Valley Birding and Nature Festival
Spencer Island is one of the best places in the Snohomish River Estuary to view waterfowl and shorebirds. The island has a dike top trail system, which provides scenic views of the wetlands, sloughs and mountains.
Spencer Island
Paul Bannick is a naturalist and bird photographer. He shares insights on nature and photographing it.
paulbannick.com
Conservation Northwest
Events Calendar for December 2006
Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve
Upper Skagit Bald Eagle Festival
Wings Over Willcox
Morro Bay Winter Bird Festival
Eagle Watch Weekend, Cadiz KY
Trumpeter Swans have been dying from lead poisoning. Martha Jordan of the Trumpeter Swan Society wants to find the source of the lead shot that the swans are ingesting.
Trumpeter Swan Society
Trumpeter Swan Society - Washington
Lead Poisoning in Washington Swans
Events Calendar for August 2006
Friends of Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge BirdFest 2006
Portland Swift Watch
(Photo © Marc Hoffman 2006. Used by permission.)
Connie Sidles visits the Montlake Fill (Union Bay Natural Area) almost every day. She shares her love of this important birding site with us on a circuit of the trail.
Union Bay Natural Area
Waders.org - Montlake Fill
Wikipedia UNBA page
(Photo by David Dawson)
Our visit to the Randall Davey Audubon Center in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Randall Davey Audubon Center
Audubon New Mexico
(Photo by Gayle Hunt)
At Haystack Rock in Cannon Beach, Oregon - the third largest monolith in the world, and home to nesting seabirds, raptors, and vacationers. We meet with Tom Oxwang of the Friends of Haystack Rock to learn about the Haystack Rock Awareness Program.
Haystack Rock Awareness Program
Friends of Haystack Rock
Oregon Coast NWR Complex
Oregon Rocks NWR
(Photos by T K Brown)
Garry and Loraine have a Bald Eagle nest in the Cottonwood tree in their back yard in Kent, Washington. They share the nest with the world through their webcam.
News Flash: The eaglet has fledged!
Kent Eagle Cam
(Photo by Gayle Hunt)
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge with Phil Kelley.
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Nisqually Reach Nature Center
Birdwise on Google Video
(Photo by Bud Anderson)
Bud Anderson describes Long-Bill Syndrome, a disturbing abnormal growth of birds' beaks and bills.
If you spot a bird with a misshapen beak, take note of the bird's species and location and call Bud Anderson at (360) 757-1911 or e-mail him at bud@frg.org
Falcon Research Group
Bill Deformities in Songbirds
Bitterroot Birding & Nature Festival
Birds on the Bay
Feliciana Hummingbird Celebration
(Photo courtesy NSCC)
Birds and the restoration of the North Seattle Community College Wetlands
NSCC Campus Wetlands
At the Upper Skagit River, we meet Libby Mills, tour the Skagit River Bald Eagle Interpretive Center, and visit a couple of riverside viewpoints.
skagiteagle.org
(Photo courtesy of PAWS Wildlife Center)
In January 2006, a group of nearly 60 Western Grebes were found stranded and starving on the beach at Ocean Shores, Washington. They were taken to the PAWS wildlife rehabilitation center in Lynnwood, Washington.
PAWS
PAWS Wild Again Newsletter
Upper Skagit Bald Eagle Festival
San Diego Bird Festival
Winter Wings Festival
Connecticut Audubon Society Eagle Festival
Port Susan Snow Goose & Birding Festival
An overview of other birding podcasts, with a guest segment from RainforestInn.
Naturesound
RSPB Bird Notes
Parrot Science
Whooper Happenings
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
The Sounds of the Rainforest
(Photos by John Lithgow)
Duddingston Loch is on the shoulder of Arthur's Seat, a dormant volcano in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Duddingston Loch
(Photo by David Dawson)
The Scottish Seabird Centre, in North Berwick, Scotland, is a state-of-the-art nature viewing facility. Visitors to the Centre can view the birds on Bass Rock, the Isle of May and Fidra by remote controlled video cameras, using the latest telemetry to rotate, pan and zoom to get the best possible views of the birds.
Scottish Seabird Centre
Lothian SOC
Forth Seabird Group
(Photo by Gayle Hunt)
The RSPB Sandwell Valley Reserve is a 10 hectare wildfowl and songbird refuge just outside Birmingham, England.
RSPB Sandwell Valley
(Photo by David Dawson)
The Entiat Ridge Experimental Hawk Banding Station, a project of the Falcon Research Group, is conducting its fifth annual hawk migration study. Located on a beautiful ridge in Eastern Washington, the station is in the migratory path of several hawk species.
Bud Anderson, Ed Deal, Mark Gleason and Martin Muller show us the action.
Falcon Research Group
Bird Banding Laboratory
Chris Templeton tells us how Black-Capped Chickadees vary their alarm calls according to how dangerous a predator is - It's size that counts, but not in the way you might think.
Chickadee-dee-dee means a lot more than it may seem...
Chickadee Alarm Calls - Chris Templeton
(Photo by Michael Hobbs)
Michael Hobbs has made himself an expert on Redmond Washington's Marymoor Park, by birding there virtually every week for eleven years.
Birding at Marymoor Park
East Lake Washington Audubon
Hurricane Katrina has devastated the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. What can we do?
(Photo by Kevin Li)
Kevin Li has been putting up nesting gourds for Purple Martins in the Puget Sound area. We join him to check three of the sites he maintains.
kdli@msn.com
Seattle Times article
USGS Purple Martin site
Martin Cam
Kitsap Audubon Martin site
purplemartin.org
purplemartins.com
Cliff Swallows have returned to Seattle's Magnuson Park. Lynn Ferguson monitors their nesting activities.
Seattle Audubon
On The Wing interviews Dr Jerome A. Jackson, author of In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, about the recent announcement that the bird still survives.
Seattle Audubon Master Birder Jim Flynn discusses his new Raptor Nest Data Project.
e-mail Jim Flynn
Seattle Audubon Society Master Birder Class
The Puget Sound Bird Fest in Edmonds, Washington, on International Migratory Bird Day. We visit Yost Park and the Edmonds Marsh.
Puget Sound Bird Festival
Birding Events Calendar for May and June 2005.
Cape May Spring Weekend
4th Annual Big Woods Birding Festival
Huron Fringe Birding Festival
3rd Annual Potholes & Prairie Birding Festival
Chaplin Lake Shorebird Festival
Adirondack Birding Festival
The 3rd Annual Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest. A memorable weekend, with a great variety of birding and other events.
Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest
Barn Beach Reserve
Falcon Research Group
Saturday May 14 is International Migratory Bird Day for 2005. Find an event near you!
birdday.org
Backyard Wildlife Fair
Puget Sound Bird Festival
Woodland Park Zoo
The 10th Annual Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival will be held at the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge at Hoquiam Washington May 6-8
Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival
Welcome to the first full program of On The Wing, the audio magazine of birds and birding!
(Photo by Sue Palmer)
On The Wing goes on a hawk-identification field trip with Bud Anderson of the Falcon Research Group.
Falcon Research Group
(Photo by Linda Davey)
Linda Davey is the Accidental Birder. How to become a birder, even if you didn't mean to...
On The Wing visits the Black River Riparian Forest in Renton, Washington. We learn about the heronry with Mark Johnston and Suzanne Krom.
Herons Forever
Seattle Audubon
Our calendar of upcoming bird-related events.
Leavenworth Spring Bird Fest May 6-8
Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival May 6-8
Puget Sound Bird Festival May 14