The Science of Birds Podcast
1) Random Bird Thursday: A Crepuscular Species That Is Not Actually Magical
In each Random Bird Thursday (RBT) episode, the goal is to highlight a bird species that probably isn't going to get featured in a full-length podcast episode. These are birds we might overlook, even ...Show More
2) Rivers & Streams as Bird Habitat
👕 Bird Merch — Get yourself some bird shirts! ~~~ In Episode 132, Ivan Phillipsen explores the "circulatory system of the land"—the world of rivers and streams. These flowing-water environments, se...Show More
3) Random Bird Thursday: A Trans-Andean Ant-Follower with a Complex Social Life
In each Random Bird Thursday (RBT) episode, the goal is to highlight a bird species that probably isn't going to get featured in a full-length podcast episode. These are birds we might overlook, even ...Show More
4) The Northern Flicker
👕 Bird Merch — Get yourself some bird shirts! ~~~ In Episode 131 of The Science of Birds, host Ivan Phillipsen takes a deep dive into one of North America's most familiar woodpeckers: the Northern ...Show More
5) Random Bird Thursday: A Colorful, Dumpy Bird That Chills With Chimps
In each Random Bird Thursday (RBT) episode, the goal is to highlight a bird species that probably isn't going to get featured in a full-length podcast episode. These are birds we might overlook, even ...Show More
6) Vagrancy: Why Some Birds End Up Far From Home
👕 Bird Merch — Get yourself some bird shirts! ~~~ In this episode—which is number 130—Ivan Phillipsen explores the fascinating phenomenon of vagrancy... those surprising moments when birds appear fa...Show More
7) Random Bird Thursday: A Large Fat-eater from Patagonia
In each Random Bird Thursday (RBT) episode, the goal is to highlight a bird species that probably isn't going to get featured in a full-length podcast episode. These are birds we might overlook, even ...Show More
8) Cuckoos
👕 Bird Merch — Get yourself some bird shirts! ~~~ In this episode, host Ivan Phillipsen dives into the diverse and sometimes mysterious world of the avian family Cuculidae. While the family is famou...Show More
9) Random Bird Thursday: An Antisocial Bottom-Feeder from the Antipodes
In each Random Bird Thursday (RBT) episode, the goal is to highlight a bird species that probably isn't going to get featured in a full-length podcast episode. These are birds we might overlook, even ...Show More
10) Avian Navigation: How Birds Find Their Way
👕 Bird Merch — Get yourself some bird shirts! ~~~ This is Episode 128. How does a bird travel thousands of miles across the globe only to return to the exact same backyard or nest site year after ye...Show More