Urban Wildlife Podcast
1) Hawk Watching and Bird Feeding
Billy and Tony sit down with Rich Conroy of the Militia Hill Hawk Watch and of the Dresher, PA Wild Birds Unlimited to chat about the joys of hawk watching and lots of other birding topics in the conv...Show More
2) Urban Life Rafts for Migrating Birds
Billy talked with author Scott Weidensaul about the wonders of bird migration and how urbanite humans can make their city habitats better for avian visitors. Topics include shorebirds, songbirds, rapt...Show More
3) Urban Coyotes with Stan Gehrt
Tony and Billy talk with one of their urban wildlife heroes, Stan Gehrt, who has been studying Chicago’s coyotes for more than 20 years. Dr. Gehrt has just authored a new book Coyotes Among Us: Secret...Show More
4) It’s Always Groundhog Day
Tony and Billy talk about one of their favorite critters, the (urban) woodchuck (a.k.a. groundhog, monax, whistle pig, etc.) and its marmot relatives around the globe. Other topics include yellow-bell...Show More
5) Tony and Billy Catch up and Opine on Beavers, Hunting & Conservation, and Land.
Tony and Billy got together ostensibly to talk about urban beavers (Castor canadensis), but the conversation wandered far and wide, touching on such subjects as hunting and conservation, rowhouse redn...Show More
Tony and Billy Catch up and Opine on Beavers, Hunting & Conservation, and Land.
1:36:46 | Aug 15th, 2023
6) Charismatic Mega Fish Fauna
The biggest animal in Philadelphia (and other port cities) isn’t a deer or a coyote, it’s a fish. We talk with biologist Shannon White about Atlantic sturgeon and her research into their depressingly ...Show More
7) Chasing the Urban Exotic Episode Repost (In Memory of Scott McWilliams)
In memory of Scott McWilliams, who passed away from brain cancer recently, we are reposting this episode from 2015. Scott was a great Philadelphian, physician, Billy’s herping buddy and close friend, ...Show More
8) Harbor Seals to Whales, Everything in Between
Andrew Budziak traveled from Vancouver to St. John’s and four cities in between to photograph Canadian urban wildlife for his video series Edge of Frame. Billy and Andrew talk about the wildlife he sa...Show More
9) The Most Beautiful Snake in the Country
The San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is shockingly beautiful and sadly endangered. It’s small range lies within the San Francisco Bay Area (no surprise there), one of the m...Show More
10) The Tyranny of Roads (and what to do about it)
You might only think of them as paths from here to there, but roads are vast structures whose density largely defines urban areas and determine what can survive in them. Darryl Jones, author of A Spot...Show More