Your Bird Story

Your Bird Story

By Local Nature Lab

Your Bird Story centers the voices of everyday people and their encounters and relationships with wild birds in cities.

The podcast is hosted by Georgia Silvera Seamans and is edited and produced by Pod to the People.

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Birding Botanist

Your Bird StoryOct 14, 2021
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Amy Berkov Wants You to Know More About Insects
May 08, 202539:47
Edmundo Martinez Birds the Bronx by Bicycle
Apr 11, 202525:46
Kelli Hata's Haecceity Project Honors the Sacred Nature of Every Bird

Kelli Hata's Haecceity Project Honors the Sacred Nature of Every Bird

Kelli Hata founded the Haecceity Project to chronicle the birds who die by colliding with glass structures on the Yale University campus. The word haecceity was coined by John Duns Scotus, a Medieval scholar. Wikipedia defines haecceity as meaning “each individual entity has a unique, unrepeatable quality that makes it different from every other entity.” The bird care work which Hata has been involved with for years in California and in New Haven embodies the sacredness and innate value of each and every bird. We also discuss practicalities--(1) the preventability of glass collisions and (2) the responsibility of universities to conserve birds as they migrate through their campuses.

Follow the Haecceity Project, Yale @yale_haecceity.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod for the People

Vocalizations: 

Scrub Jay: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/225405191

Mockingbird song: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/213457711

Prothonotary Warbler song: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/99435531

Dark-eyed Junco song: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/85243

Mar 13, 202520:50
Aaron N.K. Haiman Birds the California Delta
Feb 13, 202530:45
Bryony Angell Knows Bird-Friendly Chocolate
Jan 09, 202521:06
Melissa Hafting Gives Back to the Birds
Dec 12, 202422:32
Loyan Beausoleil is a Swiftie (of the Apodiformes kind)
Nov 14, 202438:43
SamSam Graves Really Loves Piping Plovers
Oct 10, 202436:27
Eric Archer on Hudson Valley Ecology
Sep 12, 202428:37
Jeffrey Train and the Birds of Hoboken
Aug 08, 202444:08
Tammah Watts's Guide to the Powerful Healing of Bird Watching
Jul 11, 202442:21
Pamela Lowell's Osprey Summer
Jun 13, 202446:58
Queen Birder Kellie Quiñones
May 09, 202445:26
Natasza Fontaine is a Botanizing Birder
Apr 11, 202423:50
Jazz Odes to NYC Birds with Elijah Shiffer
Mar 14, 202436:59
Window Strike Taxidermy with Emmett White
Feb 08, 202433:04
Pigeon Gyotaku with Molly Tenzer
Jan 11, 202423:45
The Queen Kingfisher with Marina Richie
Dec 14, 202347:45
Moshassuck River Wildlife
Nov 09, 202316:37
Encore: Creatures of the Sky
Oct 12, 202322:38
Nate Swick Wants You to Bird How You Want To
Sep 14, 202330:46
Rodney Stotts, Caring for People and Birds through Falconry
Aug 09, 202337:14
Katy Tanis is More of a Bird-Bird Person Than She Thinks
Jul 13, 202328:37
Birds of a Lesson: Devan Aptekar and Middle School Science
Jun 08, 202316:39
Dr. Leo Douglas, Bird Ties that Connect Jamaica and West Africa
May 11, 202335:52
Wildlife Surveyors in Washington Square Park

Wildlife Surveyors in Washington Square Park

Our sister program, Washington Square Park Eco Projects, has been conducting a wildlife survey in Washington Square Park since 2016. Tatiana and Ted, neighborhood residents, volunteer to collect survey data. We spoke with them about their experiences walking the survey transect, noticing birds, and observing the park over time.

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Season 3 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is made possible with a Voice for Nature Foundation grant.

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Production

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod to the People

Bird vocalizations were accessed from the Macaulay Library.

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Apr 13, 202318:03
Julie Peppito, Environmental Artist for the Birds

Julie Peppito, Environmental Artist for the Birds

Environmental artist Julie Peppito talks with us about the origin of her art, her family ties to New York, the materials she uses in her "creature-like sculptures, layered tapestries, large installations, collages, and playground art." Our favorite Peppito piece is "United Birds of America," a site-specific sculpture for the "For the Birds" exhibit at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2022. Julie talks about the making of this birdhouse and the American Robin who visited the sculpture as she was putting on the finishing touches the garden.

Learn about Julie on her website and her Instagram.

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Season 3 of Your Bird Story aka CHIRP is made possible with a Voice for Nature Foundation grant.

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Production

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod to the People

Bird vocalizations were accessed from the Macaulay Library.

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Mar 09, 202329:44
Creatures of the Sky with Kene'h Oweh
Feb 09, 202323:33
Monica Yadeun, Bird Protector in Mexico City
Jan 12, 202331:33
Katie Leung Loves Raptors
Dec 08, 202225:23
Bird Times at a Manhattan Middle School
Nov 10, 202219:23
Zoey Liangzhang Birds in Beijing

Zoey Liangzhang Birds in Beijing

UX designer Zoey Liangzhang caught the birding bug in New York City. Among her spark birds was a Red-tailed Hawk that spent time on her fire escape. When she returned to Beijing she immersed herself in the birdwatching community there. In this month's episode, Zoey talks about her birding life in both cities as well as her hopes for the future of birding in Beijing.

Follow Zoey's bird adventures on Instagram. Learn more about the organizations she volunteers with such as Friends of Nature. Zoey recommends watching this Beijing Television show featuring wildlife conservationist Terry Townshend which she describes as "a great video about birding in Beijing." We agree!

https://item.btime.com/22kmnh5i8i6v8heh5kc2f120m5i

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Season 3 of Your Bird Story is devoted to bringing more field  recordings to listeners. CHIRP, as we are calling this season, is made  possible with a Voice for Nature Foundation grant.

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Production

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Producer and Editor: Pod to the People

Bird vocalizations were accessed from the following sources:

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Oct 13, 202235:31
American Robins According to Emily Williams
Sep 08, 202236:56
Your Bird Story - Staff Picks
Jul 14, 202230:02
Rescuing Birds with Project Safe Flight
Jun 09, 202225:25
Balcony Birdwatching in Singapore
May 12, 202229:38
Millennial Birders
Apr 14, 202245:36
Three Ways to Know Birds

Three Ways to Know Birds

Loyan Beausoleil, the Nature Notes writer for the podcast, joins us to talk about her bird life and the ways in which she has come to know birds and how she shares her knowledge about birds with others.

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Season 2 of Your Bird Story is made possible with a Puffin Foundation grant!

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Production

White-throated Sparrow and Belted Kingfisher vocalizations were downloaded from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The Andean Cock-of-the-rock sound was downloaded from Xeno-Canto here.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Nature Note Writer: Loyan Beausoleil

Producer and Editor: Pod to the People

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Mar 10, 202241:51
Global Birding with Wambui Ippolito
Feb 10, 202246:56
Everyday Birding with Kate Hinds
Jan 13, 202230:17
Parent Birders, Part 2
Dec 09, 202156:39
Parent Birders, Part 1
Nov 11, 202152:11
Birding Botanist

Birding Botanist

For today's episode, we spoke with Tatyana Soto, a biologist and plant ecologist, about her newfound passion, birding. Tatyana shares her spark moment and spark bird and talks about her patch and the community of birders at this birding hotspot in Indiana. Plants get a mention!! Learn more about Tatyana's research here.

Thank you to Nicole Callihan, poet, for permission to recite her poem, "The Origin of Birds."

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Season 2 of Your Bird Story is made possible with a Puffin Foundation grant!

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Production

Bird vocalizations in this episode were downloaded from the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans

Nature Note Writer: Loyan Beausoleil

Producer and Editor: Pod to the People

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Oct 14, 202127:37
Big Birds
Sep 09, 202101:01:37
Bird Programs

Bird Programs

We are back with Season 2 of Your Bird Story, made possible with a Puffin Foundation grant!

Our guests in this episode, Adam Martinek (Inwood Hill Park Conservancy), Leslie Davol (Street Lab), and Heather Wolf have created ways and places for people in NYC to learn about birds through specifically developed bird programs. You don't have to be an "expert" to create high-quality bird programming. Knowing and loving a space, a desire to collaborate with others, and the drive to create a safe and welcoming community are recipes for wonderful bird education programs.

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We dedicate this episode to a NYC-resident Barred Owl who people called “Barry.” The young owl was recently killed in Central Park when she was struck by a maintenance vehicle. Barry delighted scores of Central Park visitors, beginning in October 2020 when outdoor spaces were the safest places to spend time together. Barry reminds us how special and moving encounters with birds can be. Barry will be missed.

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Production

Bird vocalizations in this episode were downloaded from All About Birds.

Creator and Host: Georgia Silvera Seamans, Director, Washington Square Park Eco Projects

Nature Note Writer: Loyan Beausoleil, Bird Program Manager, Washington Square Park Eco Projects

Producer and Editor: Pod to the People

Aug 12, 202101:11:29
Bird Girls
Jun 11, 202153:37
Yard Birding, Part 2
May 13, 202136:34
Yard Birding, Part 1
Apr 08, 202150:06
Patch Birding
Mar 11, 202138:12
A Black Forester Comes to Birding
Feb 11, 202142:01