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BirdNote ® – Snail Kite – Bird of the Everglades

The Florida Everglades are home to a bird called the Snail Kite. It eats only one type of snail and is endangered because its wetland habitat has been altered.

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BIRDNOTE®/SPRING RAINS REFRESH THE DESERT

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BirdNote® How Birds Sing So Loud

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BIRDNOTE®/Urban Birds Change Their Tune

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BirdNote®

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, nearly a million Layson Albatrosses have set up their nesting colonies on Midway Atoll.

BirdNote ® Spruce Grouse

A chicken-like bird living in the boreal forest south of the arctic, the Spruce Grouse, survives the cold winter by eating nothing but pine needles.

BirdNote® Oystercatcher

The East Coast was battered this week by the sea, but for the black oyster catcher the seashore is a protective habitat.

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Bird Note-Migrating Geese

As October gets underway, so does the fall migration. Skeins of Canada Geese and their smaller cousins Cackling Geese in their characteristic V formations are now flying south, as BirdNote®’s Michael Stein explains.

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BirdNote® Kipukas and Akis

A grove of trees on the slopes of an active volcano in Hawaii is home to a rare and beautiful bird.

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