Laura Erickson's For the Birds

By 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/.

Episode Date
Flaco: Post Mortem
Mar 29, 2024
Stopping by Peabody Street on a Snowy Morning
Mar 27, 2024
Separation Anxiety
Mar 26, 2024
Every Day Is a Gift, Part 3: The Big Island
Mar 25, 2024
Every Day Is a Gift, Part 2: Kauaʻi
Mar 21, 2024
Every Day Is a Gift, Part I: Oahu
Mar 20, 2024
Our Changing World
Mar 01, 2024
Why I Live in Duluth
Feb 29, 2024
February Update
Feb 28, 2024
Death of a New York Celebrity: Flaco the Owl
Feb 27, 2024
Mission Accomplished: Fieldfare!!
Feb 23, 2024
Chickadee with a Deformed Bill
Feb 22, 2024
Fieldfare: The One That Got Away
Feb 20, 2024
Preparing for a Birding Trip
Feb 15, 2024
Superb Owl Sunday
Feb 14, 2024
A Matter of Balance
Feb 09, 2024
Warm Winter
Feb 06, 2024
So it goes....
Feb 01, 2024
Brooding over Cicadas
Jan 25, 2024
More about the Golden-winged Warbler
Jan 23, 2024
Warblers!
Jan 18, 2024
Ancient Murrelets!
Jan 11, 2024
Starting 2024 Right!
Jan 08, 2024
Happy 2024
Jan 02, 2024
A Promising New Year
Dec 29, 2023
Birding on a Warmish December Day
Dec 13, 2023
Birding on a Cold November Day
Dec 01, 2023
Toddler-Approved Bird Books, Part 3b
Nov 30, 2023
Toddler-Approved Bird Books, Part 3a
Nov 29, 2023
Florida Scrub-Jays, Part 3: To Feed or Not to Feed
Nov 27, 2023
Thanksgiving 2023
Nov 23, 2023
Let's Talk Turkey
Nov 22, 2023
Toddler-Approved Books, Part 2: Identification Guides
Nov 17, 2023
Toddler-Approved Bird Books
Nov 15, 2023
Scrub Jays: From one species to four
Nov 14, 2023
The Healing Grace of Birds
Nov 13, 2023
Florida Scrub-Jay, Part 2b: To Know Them Is to Love Them
Nov 08, 2023
Florida Scrub-Jay, Part 2a: To Know Them Is to Love Them
Nov 07, 2023
What's in a Name?
Nov 03, 2023
Birding Ethics
Nov 01, 2023
Our Responsibilities in Old Age
Oct 27, 2023
Florida Scrub-Jays, Part I
Oct 25, 2023
When Plans Go Awry
Oct 20, 2023
Flamingo Road, Part 2
Oct 17, 2023
Flamingo Road, Part I
Oct 13, 2023
When Numbers Get Serious
Oct 09, 2023
Odd-tober!
Oct 04, 2023
Drama on Peabody Street
Sep 28, 2023
Jim Baker Comments on New Hawk Ridge Record
Sep 27, 2023
Late Outlier Hummingbirds
Sep 25, 2023
Oops
Sep 21, 2023
Whatever Happened to National Blue Jay Awareness Month?
Sep 19, 2023
Meet Christian Cooper!
Sep 18, 2023
Hummingbird Migration
Sep 15, 2023
Tunnel Vision, Part 2
Sep 12, 2023
Tunnel Vision, Part I
Sep 11, 2023
Generational Amnesia
Sep 07, 2023
Exploration, Discovery, and Triumph
Sep 04, 2023
Nighthawks: Reason for hope
Aug 29, 2023
Nighthawks: Why are they declining?
Aug 28, 2023
Nighthawks! Part I: Why I love them so much
Aug 23, 2023
The Road to Extinction
Aug 22, 2023
Making Our Yards Safe for Blue Jays (and other birds)
Aug 18, 2023
Two Little Boys Turn Three!
Aug 14, 2023
National Blue Jay Awareness Month
Aug 11, 2023
New Wheels for Birding!
Aug 10, 2023
Disney Wilderness Preserve
Aug 09, 2023
Wild Florida
Aug 08, 2023
Discovery Cove
Aug 07, 2023
Lake Tohopekalipa
Aug 02, 2023
Kissimmee!
Aug 01, 2023
Florida in Crisis
Jul 31, 2023
Parasitic Jaeger in July!!
Jul 28, 2023
Hummingbirds!
Jul 25, 2023
Teach Your Children Well, Part 2
Jul 21, 2023
Teach Your Children Well, Part 1
Jul 20, 2023
Of Magpie Nests and "Man's Pitiful Confusions"
Jul 19, 2023
Ten Year Anniversary of My Quitting Beef
Jul 17, 2023
BB's Babies!
Jul 14, 2023
Summer Update
Jul 12, 2023
Finding Baby Winter Wrens
Jul 11, 2023
Air Quality Alert: Are birdbaths safe? And how about bird flu?
Jul 10, 2023
The Value of eBird, Part 4: Science, Conservation, and Education
Jul 05, 2023
Tools before eBird: Weather radar
Jul 04, 2023
Tools before eBird: The Breeding Bird Survey
Jul 03, 2023
The Value of eBird, Part 2
Jun 27, 2023
The Value of eBird, Part 1
Jun 26, 2023
Great Crested Flycatcher
Jun 21, 2023
Smoke Gets in Your Lungs
Jun 20, 2023
Book Review: What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Jun 19, 2023
Merlin: A Different Kind of Magician
Jun 15, 2023
Reflections on a Wall on Flag Day
Jun 14, 2023
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
Jun 08, 2023
LeConte's Sparrow!
Jun 07, 2023
Ross's Gull
Jun 06, 2023
Jelly is killing hummingbirds!
Jun 05, 2023
Fascinating Robin Story
Jun 02, 2023
Like a Box of Chocolates
May 31, 2023
Circular Firing Squad: Windows v. Habitat Part II
May 30, 2023
Circular Firing Squad: Windows v. Habitat Part I
May 29, 2023
Dee Dee Nana and Walter's first official Bird Walk
May 26, 2023
Spring Update: Too Much Windy
May 24, 2023
700: A Memorable Achievement—I Hope!
May 23, 2023
Snail Kite
May 15, 2023
Lesser Prairie-Chicken
May 12, 2023
Gray-headed Swamphen
May 04, 2023
A Chickadee in Florida
May 03, 2023
When Numbers Get Serious
May 02, 2023
Record-breaking Snow and Climate Change
Apr 21, 2023
Spring Update
Apr 20, 2023
Avian Influenza Update
Apr 19, 2023
Yellow-rumped Warblers
Apr 18, 2023
First Robin of Spring
Apr 11, 2023
April Is the Cruelest Month
Apr 10, 2023
Spring Reunions
Apr 06, 2023
Baker's Blue Jay Podcast (for April Fools Day)
Apr 01, 2023
BB, My Special Pileated Woodpecker
Mar 30, 2023
Heartbreak on Peabody Street
Mar 29, 2023
Looking for Spring in All the Wrong Places
Mar 27, 2023
Flaco the Eagle Owl: To Count or Not to Count?
Mar 20, 2023
Eurasian Tree Sparrow!
Mar 14, 2023
Enhance Your Nest Boxes with Bark!
Mar 13, 2023
Spring Update
Mar 09, 2023
Chickadee Day
Mar 08, 2023
Together and Apart
Feb 24, 2023
Earning Trust in the Age of Climate Change
Feb 20, 2023
Birding Basics: Binoculars
Feb 16, 2023
Superb Owl Sunday 2023
Feb 14, 2023
Birds Specializing on Conifers
Feb 10, 2023
100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Conifers
Feb 08, 2023
Slow Birding
Feb 02, 2023
Dawn Comes to Peabody Street
Jan 31, 2023
What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Windows
Jan 27, 2023
What to do BEFORE improving backyard habitat: Cats
Jan 25, 2023
Mourning Doves!
Jan 24, 2023
A Million Ways to Bird
Jan 20, 2023
Two More Ways to Eat a Sunflower Seed
Jan 13, 2023
How to Eat a Sunflower Seed If You're a Dove or a Finch
Jan 12, 2023
Stranger in a Strange Land: Adapting to a Novel Environment
Jan 10, 2023
First Pileated of 2023
Jan 06, 2023
American Birding Association's Bird of the Year for 2023: Belted Kingfisher!
Jan 04, 2023
100 Plants to Feed the Birds
Dec 30, 2022
2022 Duluth Christmas Bird Count, Part 2
Dec 29, 2022
2022 Duluth Christmas Bird Count results, Part 1
Dec 28, 2022
She's Back!
Dec 14, 2022
A Belated Thank You to Randal Robinson
Dec 13, 2022
Why Shakespeare has been so important to me
Dec 07, 2022
Make the Belted Kingfisher the official mascot of the University of Illinois
Nov 30, 2022
The Chickadee deserves a place in Guinness World Records
Nov 29, 2022
Record-breakers, from turkeys to godwits
Nov 24, 2022
Godwits!
Nov 22, 2022
In My Prime
Nov 15, 2022
Phainopepla: A Bird as Unique as Its Name.
Nov 09, 2022
Phainopepla: Which way did she go?
Nov 08, 2022
The New Kid on the Block
Nov 04, 2022
What's the Name of That Song?
Nov 02, 2022
When Rarity Begets Rarity
Oct 31, 2022
Birds in Art, Part 3: When Birds and Humans Intersect
Oct 25, 2022
Birds in Art, Part 2: The 2022 Exhibit at the Woodson Art Museum
Oct 24, 2022
Birds in Art, Part I: A little history
Oct 21, 2022
The Value of Certified Coffee
Oct 18, 2022
Joy in the Morning
Oct 17, 2022
When Numbers Get Serious
Oct 14, 2022
Saw-whet Owl!
Oct 07, 2022
October!
Oct 03, 2022
Hit By Pitch
Sep 27, 2022
Dee Dee Nana
Sep 23, 2022
Hawk Ridge: Fifty Years and Counting!
Sep 22, 2022
Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Part 2
Sep 21, 2022
Fork-tailed Flycatcher, Part 1
Sep 20, 2022
September Hummingbirds
Sep 19, 2022
Moosey and Puffy
Sep 06, 2022
Anything Can Happen
Sep 02, 2022
If you build it, will they come?
Aug 29, 2022
Puffins, Part 3: How to see them
Aug 19, 2022
Puffins, Part 2
Aug 18, 2022
Puffins! A little history
Aug 17, 2022
August's Tiny Treasures
Aug 15, 2022
Alaska, Part 11B: The End
Aug 09, 2022
Alaska, Part 11A: Winding Down
Aug 08, 2022
Alaska, Part 10B: Kenai Fjords National Park
Aug 05, 2022
Alaska, Part 10: Dessert!! The sweetest day of the trip, starting with humpback whales
Aug 04, 2022
Alaska, Part 9: Birding Our Way to Seward
Aug 01, 2022
Alaska, Part 8: Denali
Jul 27, 2022
Alaska, Part 7: Birding in Anchorage
Jul 19, 2022
Acorn Woodpecker in Minnesota!
Jul 12, 2022
Alaska, Part 6: Birding the Nome-Taylor or Kougarok Road
Jul 11, 2022
Alaska, Part 5: A Diversion--the Bristle-thighed Curlew
Jul 08, 2022
Alaska, Part 4: Birding the Nome-Council Road
Jul 07, 2022
Alaska, Part 3: Birding the Nome-Teller Road
Jul 06, 2022
Alaska, Part 2: Nome!
Jul 05, 2022
Independence Day 2022
Jul 04, 2022
Alaska, Part 1: The tour begins in Anchorage
Jun 28, 2022
Preparing for a Trip!
Jun 13, 2022
Bird Recordings and the Merlin App
Jun 10, 2022
Three Book Reviews
Jun 07, 2022
Sweetness in Hard Times
Jun 06, 2022
Monty and Rose (2017–2022)
Jun 03, 2022
Tennessee Warblers
May 30, 2022
Walter's Beautiful Neighborhood
May 27, 2022
My Most Colorful Spring and an Adorable Little Despot
May 26, 2022
Serendipity and the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect, Part 3
May 25, 2022
Serendipity and the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect, Part 2
May 24, 2022
Serendipity and the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect, Part I
May 23, 2022
Celebrating Individuals
May 17, 2022
St. Louis County Eurasian Tree Sparrow
May 16, 2022
Homemade Books and Picture Cards for Small Children
May 13, 2022
Catching the Start of the Dawn Chorus
May 11, 2022
Recognizing Sparrows, Part 2: Unstreaked Sparrows
May 09, 2022
Recognizing Sparrows, Part 1: Juncos and Sparrows with Streaked Breasts
Apr 29, 2022
Joy in the Backyard
Apr 27, 2022
Bird Flu and Other Feeder Issues
Apr 22, 2022
Spring Symphony
Apr 19, 2022
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Apr 18, 2022
Conversation with Scott Weidensaul about A Warbler's Journey, Part 2
Apr 15, 2022
Conversation with Scott Weidensaul about A Warbler's Journey, Part I
Apr 14, 2022
Book Review: A Warbler's Journey by Scott Weidensaul, illustrated by Nancy Lane
Apr 13, 2022
Children's Bird Book Week, Part 2
Apr 12, 2022
Children's Bird Book Week
Apr 11, 2022
Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Patricia on Australian Magpies
Apr 05, 2022
Sounds of Early Spring
Apr 04, 2022
Bluolingo: The first Blue Jay translation app
Apr 01, 2022
Australian Magpies: Outsmarting Researchers
Mar 31, 2022
Transition from Winter to Spring
Mar 29, 2022
Fifty Years!
Mar 24, 2022
Alaska Trip Preparation, Part III: Anticipation!
Mar 16, 2022
Alaska Trip Preparation, Part II: Getting into Shape for a Grueling Hike
Mar 15, 2022
Alaska Trip Preparation, Part I: Reducing and Mitigating My Carbon Footprint
Mar 14, 2022
Hand-Feeding, Part II
Mar 11, 2022
Hand-Feeding, Part I
Mar 09, 2022
Chickadee Day 2022: The Best of Times
Mar 08, 2022
Chickadee Day 2022: The Worst of Times
Mar 07, 2022
Little Walter the Chickadee
Feb 23, 2022
Redpolls, Part 2
Feb 22, 2022
Redpolls, Part 1
Feb 21, 2022
Winter Bird Song, Part II
Feb 17, 2022
Winter Bird Song, Part I
Feb 16, 2022
Auggie's Bogwalk
Feb 08, 2022
It's All Good
Feb 07, 2022
February Bluebird!!
Feb 04, 2022
February!
Feb 02, 2022
Feeding Birds, Part V: Water
Jan 28, 2022
Feeding Birds, Part IV: Mealworms
Jan 27, 2022
Feeding Birds, Part III: Peanuts and Peanut Butter
Jan 26, 2022
Bird Feeding, Part II: Suet
Jan 25, 2022
Bird Feeding, Part I: Bird Seed
Jan 24, 2022
White-breasted Nuthatch
Jan 21, 2022
Boreal Chickadee
Jan 20, 2022
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Jan 18, 2022
Ivory Gull in Duluth: 2022
Jan 17, 2022