About this podcast
A podcast about birds and birding (birdwatching) featuring birds of Seattle. Episodes types:
*Interview: Leo interviews a birder / scientist.
*Spotlight Bird: We select a bird found in Seattle and give fun facts and ID tips.
*Bird Word: We rapidly explain one vocabulary term that birders should know.
*Midweek Update (MU) / Rare Bird Update: Outdated eBird rare bird alerts in podcast form.
*Quiz Bowl of Delicious Seeds (QBoDS): We quiz each other on facts from old episodes of the Seattle Bird Podcast.
*more...coming soon!
Leo is the Narrator. Felix makes all the music. Brian edits the show.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 90 episodes
- Nests · 7 min...The long awaited nest information. See instagram for nest photo taken by Dr. Hartley: https://www.instagram.com/seattlebirdpodcast
- Cool Bushtit Facts · 9 minWatch some video clips recorded by Dr. Hartley and her students: • https://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/bushtits-nectar/1/ • https://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/bushtits-nectar/2/
- Loma Pendergraft 5: Crow Facial Recognition · 8 minThis episode is a rerun of our Spotlight Bird radio show on SPACE 101.1 FM.
- Loma Pendergraft 4: Crow Intelligence · 7 minThis episode is a rerun of our Spotlight Bird radio show on SPACE 101.1 FM.
- Loma Pendergraft 3: Crow Range · 4 minThis episode is a rerun of our Spotlight Bird radio show on SPACE 101.1 FM.
- Loma Pendergraft 2: Communication part 2 · 6 minThis episode is a rerun of our Spotlight Bird radio show on SPACE 101.1 FM.
- Loma Pendergraft 1: Crow Communication · 6 minThis episode is a rerun of our Spotlight Bird radio show on SPACE 101.1 FM.
- Pigeons with Frances · 8 minThis guest episode with Frances features bounteous information about Rock Doves (aka Pigeons). Check out the brilliant plumage of the Nicobar Pigeon…
- Redhead: Rare & Spotlight Bird · 2 minThe redhead was found recently at the mouth of the Cedar River in southern Lake Washington. Stay tuned to SPACE 101.1 FM for more spotlight bird action, and come back soon to the…
- Jente Ottenburghs: Avian Hybrids · 25 minNew episode just dropped! This one has been in the works for a while now, and today I am proud to release my interview with Jente Ottenburghs! He is very knowledgeable about…
- Spotlight Bird Announcement · 1 minDownload Merlin Bird ID: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/download/ SPACE 101.1 FM: https://www.space101fm.org/program/spotlight-bird/
- Chickaree · 2 minAudio Source Links: (see these links for more info on what kind of license they are used under) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grey_Squirrel_(Sciurus_carolinensis)_(W1CD…
- Kinglets · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 36We discuss the little kings: golden-crowned and ruby-crowned kinglets! We do not discuss golden-crowned sifakas or their close relatives the silky sifakas. For more info on them…
- Nest Egg · 1 minThis is the last episode of Idiom Week. This week we cover the idiom "nest egg." If you want to know more about the episode, you should probably just listen to the podcast—it's…
- Wild Goose Chase · 1 minThanks to Seattle Bird Podcast writer Brian for help on this episode, without him, trying to write this show would be a foolish and hopeless pursuit of something unattainable.
- As the Crow Flies · 1 minIt's Idiom Week! Follow these steps to calculate distances as the crow flies on Google Maps: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1628031?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
- Cedar Waxwing · 4 min · Season 1 Episode 35This episode, the Bird Spotlight is on the Cedar Waxwing. This bird loves fruit! 🍎🍏🍒🍓🫐🍌🍇 See some awesome photos taken by our editor, Brian on our Insta…
