This Birding Life Podcast
1) Episode 90: The Final Episode! An Interview with Mark Garland
Grab the Kleenex: This is the final episode that TBL host Bill Thompson, III, recorded before succumbing to pancreatic cancer on March 25, 2019. Bill interviews Mark S. Garland, a naturalist who has b...Show More
2) Episode 89: An Interview with Jeff and Liz Gordon
In July and August, This Birding Life will feature two episodes that Bill Thompson, III, recorded before succumbing to pancreatic cancer on March 25, 2019. In this episode Bill interviews longtime fri...Show More
3) Best of This Birding Life: The Early Days of Bird Watcher's Digest
As you may know, our beloved TBL host Bill Thompson, III, died on March 25, after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. What you may not know is that Bill's mother, Bird Watcher's Digest founding pub...Show More
4) Best of This Birding Life: Music and Birds: Jonathan Meiberg of Shearwater
Originally recorded in 2010, this episode of TBL features host Bill Thompson, III, interviewing Jonathan Meiberg, a birder and leader of the indie-rock band Shearwater. Both a musician and a bird watc...Show More
Best of This Birding Life: Music and Birds: Jonathan Meiberg of Shearwater
34:26 | May 14th, 2019
5) Best of This Birding Life: The Birding Life of Greg Miller
In this popular episode from 2011, TBL host Bill Thompson, III, interviewed Greg Miller, an Ohio birder who served as inspiration for the character played by actor Jack Black in the feature film The B...Show More
6) Episode 88: Jim McCormac: A Man for All Seasons
Bill interviews Ohio birding legend Jim McCormac about his lifelong fascination with nature, his career preserving special places and creatures in Ohio, and his many other accomplishments. Jim is the ...Show More
7) Best of This Birding Life: Adventure at Rapi Nui with Alvaro Jaramillo
TBL host Bill Thompson, III, will be away from the BWD home nest for a while. We hope soon to resume new episodes of the podcast we all know and love, but in the interim, we're taking a trip down memo...Show More
8) Best of This Birding Life: Snowy Owl Invasion with Scott Weidensaul
TBL host Bill Thompson, III, will be away from the BWD home nest for a while. We hope soon to resume new episodes of the podcast we all know and love, but in the interim, we're taking a trip down memo...Show More
9) Episode 87: Melissa Groo: Wildlife Biographer
Melissa Groo joins Bill to talk about her life and the late start she got to her amazing career as a “wildlife biographer.” Though she is most famous for her captivating bird and wildlife photographs,...Show More
10) Episode 86: Juan the Guan and Other Birding Stories
During a recent trip to South America, Bill collected stories from six of his fellow travelers and shares them here. Included are stories about Juan the Guan, a treacherous journey to Noir Island, a b...Show More