A remarkable Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) mimics dozens of bird species (and a frog too!) in northern California. Listen as Greg Budney, audio curator at the Macaulay Library, dissects the recording and notes each snippet of mimicked song.
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Voices: White-Rumped Sandpiper
Listen as Macaulay Library Audio Archivist Martha Fischer describes her experience hearing the song of a White-rumped Sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis) on its high arctic breeding grounds.
Through the Lens: Snow Goose Migration
Snow Goose (Chen caerulescens) migration is spectacular! Cornell Lab of Ornithology photographer Gerrit Vyn takes us to New York’s Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge to experience this yearly event.
Voices: Semipalmated Sandpiper
Many people don’t know that shorebirds are accomplished and energetic singers on their arctic breeding grounds. The Cornell Lab’s Ben Clock describes the experience of listening to one such species – the Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla).
Hunt for the Tiger Slayers
Tigers (Panthera tigris) are facing a ruthless predator: human poachers. Controlled by well-funded and well-organized crime rings, poachers are hunting and killing tigers to sell their body parts on the black market
Self-sacrificing fish
Flying fish (Cheilopogon melanurus) are so desperate to lay their eggs deep in the centre of a floating palm frond that many of them become stuck. Unable to escape, these dead weights sink the life raft and down they all go, to Davy Jones’ locker.
Winging it
A damselfly’s adult life is so short that a newly mature female must mate and lay her eggs in the same day that she becomes an adult. Not only will her wings help her to secure a mate, but they will also be crucial when it comes to laying her eggs… underwater.
Piling on pounds
Alaskan brown bears (Ursus arctos middendorffi) take to the sea to get first bite at the annual salmon run. Luckily it’s a good year, with the bears getting much more than just the bare necessities…