Topics discussed: Trying to beat the Merlin app with human bird calls; how it’s all in the “hwaaah”; the earliest recordings of bird sounds; a collection of extinct bird specimens; mapping the tapestry and complexity of bird population declines; when you’ve kept a bird watching list since you were 9-years-old; Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology’s competitive birding team; permits for sampling; the birds that have done well because of humans; Steve’s persecution complex; citizen science; relative abundance; two categories: game birds and tweety birds; how Merlin doesn’t spy on people; bird call trivia; and more.
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Ep. 379: Welcome to Gear Talk - MeatEater Network Debut
Ep. 378: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXX
Ep. 377: The Great Outhouse Rescue: An American Hero, a Lost Phone, and the Race to Save a Stuck Man
Ep. 376: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXIX
Ep. 375: At Bat and Behind the Levee with Austin Riley
Ep. 374: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXVIII
Ep. 373: Shirker Bucks, Baubellum, and Binturongs
Ep. 372: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXVII
Ep. 371: #vanlife #akmoose
Ep. 370: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXVI
Ep. 369: The Real Indiana Jones
Ep. 368: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXV
Ep. 367: Communicating with the Wives of MeatEater
Ep. 366: Big Conching by the Lobster Condo
Ep. 365: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXIV
Ep. 364: Physics and Fatality
Ep. 363: Game On Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXIII
Ep. 362: First Lite and the Cosmos
Ep. 361: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia XXII
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