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BirdNote Podcasts - Downloads

We're happy to offer our longform podcasts free of charge. Questions? Please reach out to us at [email protected]. 

Bring Birds Back Season 2

  • 1: The Bird Journey Continues (20:43)
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  • 2: Lights Out (24:30)
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  • 3: What's In a Name? (27:58)
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  • 4: The Past, Present, and Future of Purple Martins (24:55)
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  • 5: Finding Your Flock (18:42)
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  • 6: How To Be a More Ethical Birder (21:47)
    • Download mp3 (19.9 MB)
  • 7: Birding Is For Every Body (19:45)
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Bring Birds Back Season 1

  • 1: How Do We Know that Birds are in Trouble? (25:44)
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  • 2: Who Is Birding For? (25:32)
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  • 3: Can We Make Our Cities Safer for Birds? (30:26)
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  • 4: For Birds to Win, Do Cats Have to Lose? - Part 1 (32:25)
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  • 5: For Birds to Win, Do Cats Have to Lose? - Part 2 (30:07)
    • Download mp3 (27.6 MB)
  • 6: How Can Native Plants Help Birds? (28:52)
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  • 7: How Can Coffee Help Birds? (29:46)
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  • 8: How Can We Protect Birds From Plastics? (23:56)
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Threatened: Season 2

  • 1: The Siberian Crane: From Taiwan to Tundra (27.17)
    • Download mp3 (25.0 MB)
  • 2: Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers and The Endangered Species Act (29:55)
    • Download mp3 (27.4 MB)
  • 3: Swallow-tailed Kites in the Black Belt (23:03)
    • Download mp3(21.1 MB)
  • 4: Ospreys and Environmental Restoration (28:54)
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  • 5: Puffins: Cute to Catalyst (23:12)
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  • 6: Vultures in Zimbabwe (25:33)
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  • 7: Block Island, Bird Central (30:47)
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  • 8: Plantation Ecology (28:45)
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Threatened: Season 1

  • 1: A Riot of Nesting Seabirds (26:52)
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  • 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)
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Grouse

  • Download all eight episodes (321 MB .ZIP)
  • 1: Stranger in a Strange Land (17:53)
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  • 2: In Search of the Bird, Through Time (17:52)
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  • 3: Fire and the Questions it Raises (18:52)
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  • 4: Is What’s Good for the Herd Good for the Bird? (22:51)
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  • 5: The Grieving Woman and the Sage-Grouse (21:01)
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  • 6: Oil and Gas (19:39)
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  • 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)
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  • 3: John Muir's Yosemite (28:37)
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  • 4: Kalahari Sunrise (24:59)
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  • 5: Poetics of Space (28:55)
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  • 6: Song of the Paddle (27:49)
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  • 7: Mark Twain's Limpid Brook (25:45)
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  • 8: Our Solar-Powered Jukebox (1:02:53)
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Earth Day 2020: The 50th Anniversary (10:46)

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

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Rachel Carson and the Veery (25:31)

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Wingspan Takes Flight (5:27)

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

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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)
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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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