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BirdNote Podcasts - Downloads

We're happy to offer our longform podcasts free of charge. Each episode is rich in sound, imagery, and information to transport your audience out of the daily grind and into nature. We hope these stories offer listeners a meaningful escape, especially during this stressful time of social distancing and sheltering in place.

Questions? Please reach out to us at [email protected]. 

Threatened

  • 1: A Riot of Nesting Seabirds (26:52)
    • Download mp3 (25.8 MB)
  • 2: Curlews, Sparrows, and the Ecological Trap (31:42)
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  • 3: Watching Over Western Sandpipers (30:27)
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  • 4: Protecting Biodiversity in the Boreal Forest (30:51)
    • Download mp3 (29.6 MB)

Grouse

  • Download all eight episodes (321 MB .ZIP)
  • 1: Stranger in a Strange Land (17:53)
    • Download mp3(34.8 MB)
  • 2: In Search of the Bird, Through Time (17:52)
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  • 3: Fire and the Questions it Raises (18:52)
    • Download mp3 (36.7 MB)
  • 4: Is What’s Good for the Herd Good for the Bird? (22:51)
    • Download mp3 (44.4 MB)
  • 5: The Grieving Woman and the Sage-Grouse (21:01)
    • Download mp3 (40.8 MB)
  • 6: Oil and Gas (19:39)
    • Download mp3 (38.2 MB)
  • 7: The End of Compromise? (22:25)
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  • 8: If Not Hope, Then Courage (26:15)
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Sound Escapes Season 2

  • Download all eight episodes (497.8 MB .zip)
  • 1: Songs of Spring (31:43)
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  • 2: Amazon Awakenings (29:30)
    • Download mp3 (57.1 MB)
  • 3: John Muir's Yosemite (28:37)
    • Download mp3 (55.4 MB)
  • 4: Kalahari Sunrise (24:59)
    • Download mp3 (48.5 MB)
  • 5: Poetics of Space (28:55)
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  • 6: Song of the Paddle (27:49)
    • Download mp3 (53.9 MB)
  • 7: Mark Twain's Limpid Brook (25:45)
    • Download mp3 (49.9 MB)
  • 8: Our Solar-Powered Jukebox (1:02:53)
    • Download mp3 (121.2 MB)

Earth Day 2020: The 50th Anniversary (10:46)

  • Download mp3 (20.7 MB)

In the Clear: The Problem with Birds and Glass (24:47)

  • Download mp3 (45.4 MB)

Rachel Carson and the Veery (25:31)

  • Download mp3 (46.8 MB)

Wingspan Takes Flight (5:27)

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A Conversation with Dr. J. Drew Lanham: Finding Home in Nature (37:18)

  • Download mp3 (42.7 MB)

Sound Escapes Season 1

  • Download all seven episodes (318.1 MB .zip)
  • 1: Relearn the Art of Listening (27:26)
    • Download episode 1 (50.2 MB)
  • 2: The Song of the Big Island (29:55)
    • Download episode 2 (54.8 MB)
  • 3: The Auditory Horizon (25:56)
    • Download episode 3 (47.5 MB)
  • 4: Land Between the Lakes (26:28)
    • Download episode 4 (48.5 MB)
  • 5: Riot of Music (26.51)
    • Download episode 5 (49.2 MB)
  • 6: Cold Lake Amphitheater (25:10)
    • Download episode 6 (46.1 MB)
  • 7: Nightfall on the Zabalo (29:59)
    • Download episode 7 (54.9 MB)

Birds connect us with the joy and wonder of nature. By telling vivid, sound-rich stories about birds and the challenges they face, BirdNote inspires listeners to care about the natural world – and take steps to protect it.

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