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Discussion thread: Birds of Prey trip is up! (Patreon)

Published:
2023-06-30 05:50:01
Edited:
2023-06-30 05:56:50
Imported:
2026-06

Content

Come to Boise with us! This new episode is a trip to the World Center for Birds of Prey, where we meet a kestrel named Penny, watch condors horsing around, interview docents and raptor experts, and bask in the majesty of owls and eagles. Also: Star Wars falcon trivia, stolen eggs, vans of weirdos -- and what's the peregrine story and how does it involve a sexy hat?

Also hello from Catalina Island where Jarrett and I are teaching climate scientists about scicomm. All last week, I was in Philly giving a keynote at an education conference, recording interviews and visiting your favorite squid scientist, Dr. Sarah McAnulty. So the episode went up later than we wanted but I hope y'all enjoy it!

We're kind of testing out the format of Field Trip episodes and I'd love to hear what you think of them. and has anyone ever been to this place in Idaho?

Oh, and Google Podcasts, as an app, is still being a b-word and hasn't ingested the last 3 episodes. Their support team said it might be weeks before it's fixed so you may want to listen via another platform while they work on it.

Okay, BIRDS.

-Ol' Ward

Files

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Comments

Sienna

I'm really interested in hearing more about how you and Jarrett are teaching scicomm to scientists and the path that lead you to doing this work. Have you already done an episode on this? If not, will you please? 🙏 This is coming from a scientific artist/ Biology student who has hopes of working in scicomm in my own way

Alie Ward

We were thinking of recording a Field Trip out of it -- if y'all would be interested!

Sienna

Yes please! 🙏🤓💜

Scott Hanley

Ospreys seem to be somewhat overlooked when it comes to discussions of birds of prey. I saw one closely fly overhead in Yellowstone once and that experience stuck with me. How stable are Ospreys in numbers in the wild?

Kelly J A Murphy

Idahoan here, yep I’ve been there. It’s amazing and this is coming from someone with a fear of most things that fly, let alone things that fly and can rip my face off. Love me some modern day dinosaurs!

Specs Owl

I enjoyed this episode! Birds of prey are one of my special interests, so I thought I wasn't going to learn much, but I actually learned a lot, especially about condors!

Specs Owl

Just one thing though- owls aren't all night owls! Many are diurnal or crepuscular!

Specs Owl

Ospreys are another success story, their population has really recovered from DDT and is benefiting from the 24 hour CCTV surveillance from the camera traps and live streaming nest cams.

call_me_carlisle

Really enjoy the tour episodes - feels like I’m there with ya

Scott Hanley

Thank you SO. Glad to hear this. ❤️

Claudius

The question if the paired birds would ... accept ... each other reminded me of this Robin Williams standup routine (starts at timecode 1h 22m 55s) https://youtu.be/73mWXVa12_c?t=4972 (explicit language warning)

Regina Kurandina

I might be in the minority but I would say I don't really like the field trip episodes. They're fun a few times a year to spice things up but my preference is the good old sit down interviews. However- I'll take field trip episodes over no episodes

Patricia Brewster

Molting Falconer here…Great episode! An episode on Hawks would be amazing, cause that’s what I fly and you are amazing at what you do. I hope you checked out the memorial wall while you were there. The first women of falconry in Oregon are rested there. Some of those ladies are the reason we have peregrines in the wild today.

Cameron Brown

I lived in boise for 4 years and this is one of my favorite places in existence!!!!!

Kelli Brockington

Why are birds of prey sooooo sexy - I just luv them & am giddy as a kid whenever I see one.... or 2 or more... ❤❤❤

Dana

Why do I love them so much? 🦅

Alie Ward

Thank you, Specs Owl! I may make an amendment to the episode! I should have stated that but was being too general

Alie Ward

Yep, it's an issue. I said in the post above: "Oh, and Google Podcasts, as an app, is still being a b-word and hasn't ingested the last 3 episodes. Their support team said it might be weeks before it's fixed so you may want to listen via another platform while they work on it." Humph! Wish it were fixed by now.

Connor they them

Thank you. Sorry I didn't see that. I had crappy cell reception and Patreon was not loading the full post, only the comments. Love the podcast!

choirqueer

I loved this so much I've already listened to it twice :D I loveeeeeee field trip eps!!!! Oh Alie I have such a story for you. When I was a kid I wanted to be an author when I grew up. I was a voracious reader, had read every one of Jean Craighead George's books I could get my hands on numerous times, she was my very very favorite at that time. So my 4th grade teacher somehow contacted her, brought her to our school, and after she'd spoken to our class, I got to just...hang out with her for a while. Just me!!!! She was every bit as warm and kind and delightful as you could possibly hope. I got to ask her all kinds of questions about her books and what it's like to be a writer and what I should do to become one. I know you of all people know what a gift it is when someone has the patience to let you pelt them with questions about their work ;-) And THEN, maybe a year or so later, I went to one of her book signings at a local bookstore and she REMEMBERED ME, asked me how the writing was going, and got up and gave me a hug. The best. THE BEST! What an absolute treasure of a human being.

Greg Walloch

The episodes aren't updating on Google Podcasts after Bees.

Rineil Mandre

Can't remember the podcast, but the theme was curse words, and an archaic name for a kestrel was "windfucker"

Greg Walloch

I just listened to this excellent episode and heard about Google Podcasts at the end. 🙂

The Other Maya

I was in Switzerland this winter, and was amazed at how many raptors were there. We've got a long way to go, and I'm both really sad that "brink of extinction" is our point that we initiate action, and astounded that we've come so far. When I was a kid, bald eagles were on the brink, and I didn't see on in the wild until my 30s. My Husband got video of a golden eagle bringing fish back to the nest at an abandoned cement plant just a few months ago. Which is amazing, but it shouldn't be amazing. They should just be there.

Julie Sparrow

Thank you for another fabulous Ologies episode!!

Britt Kline

I *love* the field trip eps!! This one was fascinating (of course). Thank you! I live fairly near the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge and have been lucky enough to watch many osprey & even bald salvoes roaming around our area. There is a local park on our lake (Stewart Park on Cayuga Lake in Ithaca, NY - *also* home of Cornell U’s Lab of Ornithology 😉) where conservationists have built poles just for osprey nests and they sure do nest up there! It’s SO fun to watch them go out up the lake or come back with fish to the nest. It was one of our pandemic picnic pastimes 🌯 😍🦅

Scott Hanley

Speaking of Diclofenac, the anti arthritis med given to cows in India, which caused the widespread death of scavenger birds eating cow corpses, Voltaren, in cream form is now over the counter in the US for topical arthritis relief, what problems will this cause?

David Gallagher

If you ever make your way north of LA to Bakersfield - check out our California Living Museum (CALM). They have a pair of rescued condors you can see up close along with a slew of other CA native animals.

David Gallagher

When those suckers open their wings … you can’t help but feel small.