A Riot of Nesting Seabirds
Threatened
English - November 24, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 100 ratingsNature Science Society & Culture Places & Travel ecology climate change birdsong birding birds conservation environment nature ornithology outdoors Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In the series premier, we head to a summer home for seabirds — a place where kittiwakes, murres, auklets, and puffins gather by the thousands. Gerrit Vyn, a conservation media producer, describes the scene as "a cauldron of raucous bird sound." Scientists and Aleut locals share how the birds are faring in a changing climate, and we explore importance of seabirds in island traditions.
Full transcript available at BirdNote.org.
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