Laura Erickson's For the Birds Laura Erickson
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"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.
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Review: The Breeding Birds of Minnesota
A beautiful, useful, and engaging tour de force.
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Red-headed Woodpecker!
It's a red-letter day when we see one of the prettiest woodpeckers of all.
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Katie's Boo Jays
Laura recalls the birds who inspired her baby daughter's second word.
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Merlin: All Wizards Have Limitations
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created two extremely useful apps for birders. Merlin is wonderful and useful, but far from perfect.
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Jelly Redux
Laura sparked unprecedented anger in a listener last week because of a program and blogpost from 2007. (All my blogpost/transcripts have photos, and some are longer than the program itself, but this program's linked transcript/blogpost has a *lot* more information than I could include in the program, along with pertinent photos and a video.)
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Review: Kenn Kaufman's new book, The Birds that Audubon Missed. Part 2
*The Birds That Audubon Missed* by Kenn Kaufman is a clear-eyed and surprisingly exciting portrait of a time and place that have long ago disappeared, and an important and timely book as well. Laura can’t recommend it highly enough.