Hannah and Erik Go Birding

The winds a-howlin' and there's birds zipping past! Hannah and Erik give seawatching a concerted effort and improve their seawatching skills.  And Dr. Sarah Saunders and David Pavlik join to discuss …

Hannah and Erik sneak in a little birding on a family Disneyland trip.  They visit a few nearby hotspots for some targets and even get a lifer in Disneyland!  

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Teacher Tom joins Hannah and Erik to discuss TikTok and what's that got to do with birds. 

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Hannah and Erik had a great time exploring southeast Arizona during the monsoon season - lots to see and cool places to explore!  And they got to participate in another birding festival! Win-win!

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Freya and Virginia tell Hannah and Erik all about Birdability, whose mission is to share the joys of birding with people who have disabilities, and to ensure birding is accessible for everybody.

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Madera Canyon, just outside of Green Valley, AZ, is a magical place with lots of amazing things to see.  Hannah and Erik discussed it in a previous episode, but were drawn back for more.  They spent …

Hannah goes on a solo adventure with the United States Fish & Wildlife Service Tufted Puffin Survey Team to survey for Tufted Puffins along the Oregon coast.

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Dr. John Barentine from the International Dark-Sky Association joins us to talk about the importance of dark skies!  Limiting light pollution is important for plants, animals, birds, and even humans.…

So, we gave you just a taste for Indiana birding in our first Indiana episode - so here's the rest!  More restaurants to visit, hotspots to bird, and things to do.  

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Welcome to Season 4 of Hannah and Erik Go Birding!  In this episode, we interview a friend whose upcoming book is a field guide with fun, interesting, and playful field marks that will make you take …

Hannah and Erik find some unexpected surprises while birding in Chicago and learn a hard lesson about carefully reading signs!

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Hannah and Erik prepare for the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival by first trying out the Indiana Dunes self-guided birding tour.  They see warblers, thrushes, and some good, old midwestern species.  Be…

Hannah and Erik visit a favorite region - the Rio Grande Valley.  There is so much to see and lots to do when visiting this incredible birding spot.  They compete in the Great Texas Birding Classic B…

We went on their yearly sojourn to the Upper Texas Coast to compete in the Great Texas Birding Classic.  This year we participated in the Human-Powered Competition and  a new (to us) category, the Su…

Darlene Cavalier is a professor at Arizona State University and the founder of SciStarter, Science Cheerleaders, and cofound of ECAST.  She joins us to talk about Citizen Science Month and all of the…

In less than a year, many people have come together to raise funds that support Black and Latinx birders/college students studying STEM fields.  Thanks to the work of Tykee, Orietta, and many members…

Ariel Gaffney is a forensic ornithologist with the US Fish & Wildlife Forensics Lab.  But what even is a forensic ornithologist?  Ariel, the newest ornithologist at the lab, answers that question!

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Did you know that Long-eared Owls roost communally in the winter?  There has been a communal roost site at one of our local refuges, Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge, with multiple owls seen almost da…

Sax-Zim Bog is one of those legendary places we knew we'd have to go someday - below freezing temperatures and Great Gray Owls are the things most birders dream about.  A spur of the moment trip lead…

On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States of America and Kamala Harris was inaugurated as the 49th vice president.  But what does that mean for birds? …