Your Bird Story Local Nature Lab

Pamela Lowell is a passionate spokesperson for Osprey and bird conservation writ large. She gorgeously captures the lives and habitats of Pandion haliaetus in watercolor which illustrate her new book, My Summer with Ospreys. Throughout Lowell's book, and our conversation, you experience her warmth and caring approach to healing both birds and people. Also, Pamela Lowell is very funny!



Learn more about Pamela Lowell at her website: https://www.pamelalowell.com.



Season 4 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is funded with a Voice for Nature Foundation grant.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod for the People

Vocalizations:

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/200948 (Bald Eagle), https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/100770 (Belted Kingfisher), https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/135383 (Great Blue Heron), https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/105731 (Osprey, display), https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/217862641 (Osprey), https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/255296771 (juvenile Osprey)


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Kellie Quiñones is a Brooklyn born Afro-Boricua woman now living in Queens. She has a special place in Georgia's heart, welcoming her into the NYC bird world. Listen to this lively and laugh out loud conversation about birding from home, favorite bird memories, community, and more.

Season 4 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is funded with a  grant.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod for the People



American Crow https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/135405

Bald Eagle https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/92022701

American Woodcock https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/62745

Black-crowned Night Heron https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/134129




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"I can't think about plants without thinking about birds and I can't think about birds without thinking about plants," says Natasza Fontaine in our conversation about her life as an avian ecologist, natural science illustrator, bioacoustician, and a birder. Fontaine is a founding member of Black Botanists Week. She was selected as the Bird of the Year Artist 2024 by the American Birding Association. Fontaine illustrated the Golden-Winged Warbler for the ABA Birding magazine. Listen to her story and hear her recordings of one of her favorite birds, the Caspian Tern.

Read about Fontaine and the Golden-winged Warbler at ⁠https://www.aba.org/2024-bird-of-the-year-artist-natasza-fontaine/⁠.

Season 4 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is funded with a  grant.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod for the People

Caspian Term vocalizations: Natasza Fontaine

Golden-winged Warbler: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/157972131


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Birds sing to "defend and impress" (All About Birds). Bird songs are good for soul, though this depends on the person listening, the species of bird, and the type of sound they are making (Dr. Eleanor Ratcliffe via Natural History Museum UK). New Yorker Elijah Shiffer composes jazz pieces to celebrate the birds he observes in the city. Shiffer is a saxophonist, a composer, a music critic, and a bird guide. Excerpts from several of the songs on Shiffer's new album, City Of Birds, Volume I, are included in this episode.



You can find Elijah Schiffer online at https://www.elijahshiffer.com/ and @elijahshiffer.



Season 4 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is funded with a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Voice for Nature Foundation⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ grant.



Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Pod to the People⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Music courtesy of Elijah Shiffer.


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One way to communicate the violence of window strikes is through art. Emmett White entered Wunderkammer 2023, a taxidermy competition, with a sculpture of seven pigeons colliding with windows. In this episode, we talk with Emmett about the piece, his other less woeful taxidermy projects, and a healthy dose of live birds.



You can follow Emmett White on Instagram:


https://www.instagram.com/get.stuffed.taxidermy/



Season 4 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is funded with a ⁠⁠⁠⁠Voice for Nature Foundation⁠⁠⁠⁠ grant.



Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pod to the People⁠⁠⁠⁠

Bird vocalizations: Xeno-Canto (1, 2) and Pixabay.


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How do we recognize and commemorate the life and death of wild creatures among us? Gyotaku is a Japanese ink printing method conventional used by fishermen to print their fish to verify species and size. NYC-based artist Molly Tenzer uses gyotaku to print the dead bodies of birds and mammals she encounters in the city. Tenzer expresses gratitude to Tape Hernandez for introducing her to the art of gyotaku. We saw Tenzer's work first hand at the 2023 Wunderkammer taxidermy competition.



You can follow Molly Tenzer on Instagram:


https://www.instagram.com/manymoonspress
https://www.instagram.com/abandonhopeproject



Season 4 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is funded with a ⁠⁠⁠Voice for Nature Foundation⁠⁠⁠ grant.



Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: ⁠⁠⁠Pod to the People⁠⁠⁠

Bird vocalizations: ⁠⁠Macaulay Library


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