BirdNote Presents

Nov 18 2021 21 ep. 16 mins 9.8k
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Stories that connect us more deeply with birds, nature, and each other.

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An Update on BirdNote Presents

Nov 18 2021 1 mins  
Hear the latest from BirdNote on our other podcasts, Threatened, Bring Birds Back, and BirdNote Daily

Poetry Month: Heid E. Erdrich

Apr 30 2021 9 mins  
Heid E. Erdrich is the author of seven collections of poetry. Her writing has won fellowships and awards from the National Poetry Series, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Bush Foundation, Loft Literary Center, First People’s Fund, and other honors. Erdrich has twice won a Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Heid edited the 2018 an

Poetry Month: Timothy Steele

Apr 23 2021 9 mins  
Timothy Steele is an American poet who has received numerous awards and honors for his poetry, including a Lavan Younger Poets Award, the Los Angeles PEN Center Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for Excellence in the Study of Prosody. He has taught at Stanford University and the University of California in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. Sinc

Poetry Month: Traci Brimhall

Apr 09 2021 8 mins  
A native of Minnesota, Traci Brimhall is an Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University. Her first published collection, Rookery, features many poems about birds. “Birds just seem to have a kind of spiritual or symbolic weight,” Traci explains. “They feel somehow ancient or ethereal – timeless in a way, and I think poets are often attract

Poetry Month: Wendy S. Walters

Apr 02 2021 9 mins  
Wendy S. Walters is a non-fiction writer and poet, who holds a MFA/PHD in Poetry and Literature from Cornell University. She is the former Associate Dean of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons, The New School. Currently she serves as Director of the Nonfiction Concentration and Associate Professor of Writing, Nonfiction in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Whi

Grouse: Bonus Guest Episode: The Spotted Owl

Nov 20 2020 33 mins  
This episode we're sharing "Timber Wars," from OPB. The show explores the fight over old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest. And at the center of that fight was… a bird!

Introducing Threatened

Nov 17 2020 1 mins  
Answering the call to protect the birds and places we love

Grouse: If Not Hope, Then Courage

Oct 27 2020 27 mins  
In the final episode of Grouse, host Ashley Ahearn returns to a lek in Washington with biologist Michael Schroeder and finds it scorched by recent wildfire. We’re all looking for hope right now, but Ashley says what we really need is the courage to keep fighting, loving and dancing, as the sage-grouse have shown us.

Grouse: The Death of Compromise?

Oct 20 2020 22 mins  
Environmentalists and politicians love the phrase “common ground.” In the latest episode of Grouse, host Ashley Ahearn explores the role of compromise in the face of major environmental loss. Does the sage-grouse have time for it?

Grouse: Oil and Gas

Oct 13 2020 19 mins  
No matter how we feel about it, the natural gas industry is an important player in our national energy supply — and the future of sage-grouse. Can the two co-exist? Host Ashley Ahearn travels to Wyoming for answers. She talks with a biologist who has been studying sage-grouse in oil and gas country for 20 years, and the vice president of an energy company that is trying to reduce