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BirdCallsRadio™worldwide is a weekly radio show about the wonderful world of wild birds and nature. Worldwide topics range from bird sightings, birding tips, conservation, wildlife, and getting children involved with nature outdoors. Forward thinking guests join the show to add expertise on topics involving nature and conservation topics worldwide.

Episodes

BCR 145: Cape May Fall Festival 2018

BirdCallsRadio officially reports LIVE at the 72nd Annual Cape may Fall Festival 2018, hosted by New Jersey Audubon's Cape May Bird Observatory in Cape May, NJ on October 18-21, 2018.

Oct 31, 20181 hr 5 min

BCR 144: Gulls Simplified

Pete Dunne and Kevin Karlson talk about all things Gulls in their latest book “Gulls Simplified”. Known both for their lifelong devotion to wildlife and conservation, joins BirdCallsRadio LIVE on location.

Oct 24, 201855 min

BCR 143: American Birding Expo 2018

BirdCallsRadio reports LIVE at the 4th Annual American Birding Expo 2018 that is hosted by Birdwatcher’s Digest, held at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks PA.

Oct 16, 20181 hr 29 min

BCR 142: Audubon Greenwich Hawk Festival

BirdCallsRadio reports LIVE at the 20th Annual Audubon Greenwich Hawk Watch Fall Festival, a state office of the National Audubon Society in Greenwich CT.

Oct 09, 201826 min

BCR 141: Merlin Tuttle, Bat Conservation

Dr. Merlin D. Tuttle is an ecologist, wildlife photographer, and conservationist who has studied bats and championed their preservation for more than 55 years and continues as the founder of Merlin Tuttle’s Bat Conservation.

Oct 02, 20181 hr 10 min

BCR 140: Helen Hays, Great Gull Island 50th

Celebration of Helen Hays 50th Anniversary of Great Gull Island; a tern research colony she has directed since 1969 for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Sep 26, 20181 hr 19 min

BCR 139: Catherine Hamilton, Bird Artist & Naturalist

Catherine Hamilton, Bird Artist & Naturalist is our third guest in a continued featured series called "Women In Conservation" talks with BCR Host, Mardi Dickinson about her evolution as a bird artist, inspiration, favorite subject matters, field sketching prowess, and her dedication to supporting bird conservation efforts.

Sep 18, 20181 hr 24 min

BCR 138: Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival 2018

Mardi Dickinson, BCR Host, reports LIVE from the 13th Annual Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival that is held at the Gateway National Recreation Area unit of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge within the U.S. National Park Service; talks with many people that flock here to witness the spectacular yearly occurrence of the fall shorebird migration.

Sep 11, 201821 min

BCR 136: Brian K. Wheeler, New Birds Of Prey Guides East & West

Brian K. Wheeler has been studying, painting, and photographing birds of prey throughout the United States and Canada for more than fifty years. His latest books ‘Birds of Prey of the West” and its companion volume, “Birds of Prey of the East”, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides to North American birds of prey ever published.

Aug 21, 201843 min

BCR 135: Dale Rosselet, VP Education NJ Audubon

Dale Rosselet, VP for Education with New Jersey Audubon since 1983 joins Mardi Dickinson for an in depth conversation on all statewide and center-based programming efforts for the organization.

Aug 07, 201845 min

BCR 134: Frank Gallo, Birding in Connecticut

Frank Gallo, Author & Birder stops by and talks with host, Mardi Dickinson on his newly released book on Birding in Connecticut and getting people outside to enjoy nature.

Jul 17, 201835 min

BCR 133: Virginia Rose, Birdability for Mobility Challenged

Viginia Rose, initiated Birdability on birding for the mobility challenged, talks with host, Mardi Dickinson about to getting mobility challenged people out in the parks and enjoying nature, by way of birding; and in turn, to make birding more accessible.

Jul 10, 201843 min

BCR 132: Kimberly Kaufman, Women in Conservation

Kimberly Kaufman, Executive Director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory is our second guest in a continued featured series called “Women In Conservation”, talks with host Mardi Dickinson about her passion in the natural world and lifelong contributions to wild birds and conservation.

Jun 26, 201852 min

BCR 131: Biggest Week 2018 Moments

Mardi Dickinson, BCR Host, reports LIVE from NW Ohio on the Biggest Week 2018 Moments talks with many world travelers that flock here to witness the spectacular yearly occurrence of spring migration of songbirds on so many levels!

Jun 19, 201828 min

BCR 130: Bonnie Paton Moon, Paton's Birders Haven update

Bonnie Paton Moon, author and a daughter of the late Wally and Marion Paton of Paton’s Birders Haven now in perpetuity called Tucson Audubon’s Paton Center for Hummingbirds stops by with an update.

Jun 12, 201843 minEp. 130

BCR 129: Sheri Williamson, All about Hummingbirds

Sheri L. Williamson is a lifelong naturalist, co-founder and co-director of the Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory, and author of A Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America in the Peterson Field Guide Series. She lives near the Mexican border in Bisbee, Arizona with her husband and colleague Tom Wood and their dependents: a geriatric parrot, a rescue dog, three pampered pet chickens, and hundreds of freeloading wild birds.

Jun 05, 201848 min

BCR 128: David Toews Ph.D., Warbler Hybrids & Genomics

David Toews Ph.D. flys by to talk with host Mardi Dickinson about Warbler Hybrids & Genomics. The dynamics of hybridization, the patterns of genomic divergence, and understanding the genetic basis for phenotypic differences.

May 29, 20181 hr 3 min

BCR 127: Women Birders Big Year

BirdCallsRadio reports LIVE from the Biggest week in American Birding 2018 on a keynote panel about five Women Birders Big Year that include; Lynn Barber, Laura Erickson, Laura Keene, Nancy McAllister and Yve Morrell.

May 22, 201850 min

BCR 126: Luke Tiller, Field Biologist

Luke Tiller stops be to talk with host Mardi Dickinson about the witness of raptor migration and his experience counting raptors in North America, Europe and the Middle East.

May 15, 201844 min

BCR 125: Benjamin Van Doren, Kyle Horton

Benjamin Van Doren and Kyle Horton stop by to talk with host Mardi Dickinson about an exciting new project called BirdCast. They both developed and recently launched live migration maps, an incredible tool built upon, of a computer model of weather and bird migration....

May 08, 201842 min

BCR 124 Janet Moore, Janet Stein, Seeing Red

Janet Moore and Janet Stein who discovered a Red Warbler on Monday, April 9, 2018 at Rose Canyon Lake, Mt. Lemon in Pima County SEAZ, flys by to talk with host Mardi Dickinson in detail about finding this Mega Rarity in SEAZ .

May 01, 201834 min

BCR 123: David La Puma, Director of CMBO

David La Puma is the Director of NJ Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory, avid birder, ornithologist and conservationist stops by to talk with host Mardi Dickinson about the World Series of Birding 35th Anniversary, CMBO/New Jersey Audubon, CMBO ongoing Research.

Apr 24, 20181 hr 4 min

BCR 122 David Lindo, The Urban Birder

David Lindo is a broadcaster, writer, speaker and tour leader and lives in England when he is not traveling the world. BirdCallsRadio caught up with David in Spain to talk with host Mardi Dickinson about Urban Birding and specializes in unlikely birding sites around the world.

Apr 17, 201850 min

BCR 121: Ashli Gorbet, Wildlife Biologist

Ashli Gorbet is a wildlife biologist and ornithologist stops by to talk with host Mardi Dickinson about female role models, black-throated Grey Warblers, mentoring, bird banding, ABA Standards & Ethics Committee.

Apr 10, 201850 min

BCR 119: Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe, Bird Conservation Manager

Corrie Folsom-O'Keefe is the Bird Conservation Program Manager for Audubon Connecticut joins Host Mardi Dickinson to talk about Piping Plovers, shrub land birds, IBA's, Wild Life Guards, Being a pilot and Civil Air Patrol.

Mar 27, 201839 min

BCR 118: Hob Osterlund, Holy Moli

Hob Osterlund is the founder of Kauai Albatross Network and author of the book Holy Moli, Albatross and Other Ancestors; joins BirdCallsRadio to talk about the Laysan Albatrosses on Kauai.

Mar 20, 201843 min

BCR 116: Stephen Kress

Stephen Kress, Vice President for Bird Conservation of the National Audubon Society, Executive Director of the Seabird Restoration Program, Project Puffin; stops by to talk with BirdCallsRadio about his life-long work in seabird conservation, management, and habitat restoration.

Feb 27, 201854 min