Hannah and Erik Go Birding

The first-ever Citizen Science Day was held in 2016 and the citizen science teams at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences dreamed up a fun way to capitalize…

Ahhhh…SoCal. The sun, surf, beer, and parakeets?!  Hannah and Erik head back to Southern California for the San Diego Bird Festival where they bike around Mission Bay, do a few Women Who Bird Socials…

"I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings."
~ Caitlin Moran

Tufted Puffins are whimsical birds found along the West Coast of the United States from Cent…

Part field guide, part travel book, Must-See Birds of the Pacific Northwest is full of great information for birders, nature enthusiasts, and travelers.

Hannah and Erik chat with author, Sarah Swanson…

Oh San Diego... the sun, the surf, the birds.  It's really a great break from the dreary, Pacific Northwest winter.  Hannah and Erik explore a few of the best hotspots in the county including: Cabril…

Hannah and Erik join the San Diego Audubon Society's Dune Defenders to rid the landscape of a nasty plant, Puncturevine, in an effort to restore and protect habitat for the local subspecies of Least …

It's the end of 2019!  Hannah and Erik are here to tell you about Cowboy Pigeons, loss of bird life, and bird-friendly legislation.  Erik details his adventures in the first few Christmas Bird Counts…

Hannah and Erik know a number of incredible guides, some of whom are women.  While at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, they met up with a few women guides who have diverse backgrounds and expe…

Another year, another Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in the books!  Hannah and Erik had an awesome time birding the RGV, seeing friends, and chasing birds.  The festival field trips took them all…

Here it is, the much-anticipated final leg of Hannah and Erik’s Grand ScandinAVIAN Adventure!  In this episode, they get off the cruise ship and travel all over the home of the world’s oldest continu…

On the second leg of their Grand ScandinAVIAN Adventure, Hannah and Erik enjoy a leisurely cruise around the Baltic States and Scandinavia aboard the Norwegian Cruise Line Getaway.  We visited ports …

Have you ever thought about birding around Sweden?  On this first leg of the "Grand Scandinavian Adventure" (get it...avian?), Hannah and Erik spent a week birding around southern Sweden and then bri…

Hannah and Erik live out a birding dream by braving another pelagic birding trip... this time with famed Shearwater Journeys!  While in central California, they tour local hotspots to add a few Calif…

With a multitude of different birding, environmental, conservation, etc. organizations vying for your hard earned cash, how do you decide which ones to support, if any at all? 

Hannah and Erik got so…

There have been lots of weird news stories about birds lately - Hannah tells Erik a few of her favorites including stoner gulls, chunky crows, and men who stare at gulls.

Also, we are right in the mid…

Heidi Trudell, creator of Dead Birds for Science and Just Save Birds, picks up dead birds.  In this episode, she gets straight into the uncomfortable subject of dead birds and tells you why she does …

Hannah and Erik are on the search for the endangered Marbled Murrelet, a seabird that can be found in old growth forests!  They join a community science project to survey this species in an effort to…

Hannah and Erik meet up with Travis, the Lead Avian Curator at the Oregon Zoo to talk about California Condors.  Travis along with the Oregon Zoo team and other teams around the country are working t…

Have you ever had a misconception about an area or region?  Hannah and Erik have birded Tillamook County several times, but just didn't really give it a good shot.  Well, they went back to see what t…

Hannah and Erik heard tale of Mountain Quail at Boneyard Ridge...so they went a-huntin'.  Did they find them?  Listen in to find out!  Also, Susan Peterson, a local birder joins them in the search an…