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Tweet of the Day
A bird call and a little context fit into the space of a kettle boiling. Start with “Short-Eared Owl” (2 minutes), presented by wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. It's about a bird that moves across open country and breeds where the grass or moorland suits it.
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Animal Sound Safari
This family series uses animal sounds and stories to travel from place to place. Try “Crocodile Cousins” (about 17 minutes), which tells a Timor-Leste legend about a crocodile named Lafaek. It's a good pick for kids who want to know why people in different places tell different stories about the same animal.
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Earth Rangers
Earth Ranger Emma makes this an easy choice for a ride with kids. “Polar Bear Fur, and Birds With Flippers” (15 minutes) moves from Antarctic penguins to a polar bear researcher in the Arctic. The question about white-looking fur and black skin gives young listeners something specific to listen for.
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The Wild with Chris Morgan
Chris Morgan follows animals and the people studying or protecting them. Try “Grizzlies coming back to the North Cascades” (25 minutes) for the history behind a 2024 plan to restore bears to Washington’s mountains. Morgan revisits a 2019 report about why they disappeared and what a return could mean.
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Bring Birds Back
BirdNote’s longer conversations make room for the people who watch and protect birds. In “Birding Baddies” (25 minutes), Tamerra Jones remembers the osprey that drew her into birding and explains why she keeps watching Florida scrub-jays. Pick it if you’re curious how a solitary hobby can turn into a community.
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BBC Earth Podcast
BBC Earth often follows several natural history stories in one episode. “Saving a Species Through Sound” (32 minutes) starts with a search for the voice of a rare Honduran frog before moving out to sea. Choose it when you want distinct stories linked by a question you can hear someone investigate.
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Wild Animals
Roland Kays frames the science around an individual animal tracked by researchers. “WDF128: The African Wild Dog Who Was a Phoenix” (35 minutes) follows a female survivor in Kenya and the return of a local population. It's a good start if you remember one animal's story more readily than survey totals.
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The Animal Behavior Podcast
Researchers get time to explain their own work here. In “Ximena Bernal on Eavesdropping Animals and Bilingualism in Science” (43 minutes), a study of animals listening in on túngara frog calls leads into a conversation about using more than one language in science. It goes deeper into research than the short animal profiles on this list.
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The Science of Birds
Biologist Ivan Phillipsen makes one part of bird life the subject of each episode. “Bird Intelligence” (47 minutes) is a good choice if you want to think about how birds solve problems. Pick it for a guided explanation you can follow without having to look up species on the way.
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Just the Zoo of Us
There is a simple pleasure in hearing a familiar animal reviewed on its own terms. “Pigeons w/ Rosemary Mosco!” (62 minutes) makes room for the history of city pigeons and the ways a pair courts. Good company on a longer walk, especially if the birds you're passing are the ones under discussion.
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Ologies with Alie Ward
Alie Ward covers plenty beyond animals, so start with an episode that spends time on one question. The “Corvid Thanatology” encore (73 minutes) lets researcher Kaeli Swift explain what crows do around a dead crow and what scientists can infer from those gatherings. The full episode is marked explicit. Ward’s site also offers a bleeped version.
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