Naturally Adventurous

Today Charley & Ken chat about places they would love to travel to but can't. Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link...

The final installment of our Panama series. Ken tells Charley about his western Panama adventure. How did Ken manage to miss all the brushfinches yet find all the quail-doves?! How was his climb up Panama's highest mountain? Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://...

Podcast listener Jason Lewis shares his epic birding adventures from Central Peru in the second of this 2 parter. Oxapampa Antpitta recording coutresy of Peter Boesman, XC223592. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/223592. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to suppor...

Is the Darien actually the dangerous borderland that most people make it out to be? Is it crazy to bring young kids on a Darien trek to visit the nest of a Harpy Eagle?! Ken tells Charley about his eastern Panama adventure. Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://patre...

Podcast listener Jason Lewis shares his epic birding adventures from Central Peru in the first of this 2 parter. Cloud-Forest Screech-Owl recording courtesy of Ross Gallardy, XC296730. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/296730. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish t...

Regular guest Julian Hough tells Charley about his trip to Finland & Norway last year. Check out Julian's Substack page: https://birdingontheedge.substack.com/ Check out Julian's Youtube videos from his tours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfApNgJX6w&t=5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyTHHBN9rM Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If...

Charley gives his Top 5 bird sightings from his recent Japan in Winter tour. Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Intro...

Charley does a field broadcast from his local birding patch in Chiang Mai. Here's the ebird checklist from the walk: https://ebird.org/checklist/S298534053 Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source...

Ken gives Charley an overview of his recent long trip to Panama. Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Intro by Jenna Pi...

Charley chats with Nick Bonomo about independent migration birding in Bulgaria. check out Nick's blog https://www.shorebirder.com/ Hazel Grouse recording courtesy of Fredrik Grahn, XC1049385. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/1049385. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If yo...

Charley chats with Richard Pearce about Japanese Giant Salamander conservation. Check out a YouTube video of Richard and the Salamanders https://youtu.be/OEWDx2EAJJs?si=6gzbbY3N7AUauw-e and his NPO website https://www.sustainabledaisen.org/en/home Ruddy Kingfisher recording courtesy of Peter Boesman, XC285936. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/285936. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerc...

Charley chats with regular guest Andres Vasquez about his recent trip to Argentina. Chaco Owl recording courtesy of Hans Matheve, XC965889. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/965889. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreo...

Charley and Ken record another 'live from the field' episode, this time from Ken's short visit to Chiang Mai, Thailand last year. Spot-throated Babbler recording courtesy of Charley. Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?u...

Charley chat with Keith Barnes about seeing the world's bird families. Ken's photo gallery of 140/150 of the world's bird families: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kbehrens/albums/72177720330473375 Gray-winged Trumpeter recording courtesy of Peter Boesman, XC271781. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/271781. License ⁠ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0⁠⁠ Please check out the websi...

Ken talks with Douglas McMeekin, the founder of Yachana Foundation. Douglas has had a remarkable life, much of it spent in the Amazon, where he founded the Yachana Foundation, which uses for-profit ventures to fund its non-profit work in conservation and among local communities. Want to hear what it was like to travel in the Amazon in the 1960s?! Listen in! Piratic Flycatcher recordings courtesy o...

Charley tells Ken about his latest 2 new bird families. Malaysian Rail-Babbler recording courtesy of Ding Li Yong, XC987719. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/987719. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https:/...

Charley and Ken talk about the state of the podcast, after delivering weekly episodes for over five years (!). They chat about the results of the survey from earlier in the year, and wrap up 2025. Ken's photo gallery of 140/150 of the world's bird families: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kbehrens/albums/72177720330473375 Pallid Scops-Owl recording courtesy of Sven Normant, XC982497. Accessible at h...

Ken tells Charley about the top 6 experiences of his recent trip to the Arabian Peninsula country of Oman. CORRECTION / CLARIFICATION: Regarding Silverbills, the country of Saudi Arabia also has both Indian and African Silverbills, and of course much of East Africa has two species, though the Gray-headed Silverbill is in a different genus, and is quite unlike the African / Indian. Please check out...

Charley talks with one of India's top birders, Harish Thangaraj, about some amazing rediscoveries he has made this year Jerdon's Courser recordings courtesy of P Jeganathan, XC294415. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/294415, and Harish Thangaraj, XC1038584. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/1038584. License for both: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Please check out the web...

Charley tells Ken about his recent trip to the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. Golden Masked-Owl recording courtesy of Charley Hesse. Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&a...

Ken chats with Charlie Harcourt about the country of Myanmar; it's biological and cultural riches, as well as its troubled history (and present). Charlie's organization for higher education access: https://www.myanmar-foundation.org Support for democracy and public assistance in Myanmar: https://www.mutualaidmyanmar.org Bird tours: https://www.myanmarbirding.com White-browed Nuthatch recording cou...

Ken tells Charley about the second half of his recent trip around northern Ecuador. It started with a wisdom tooth removal, but was all uphill from there! Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/naturallyadventurous?fan_landing=true⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ In...

Charley chats with Colin Conroy about birding in Lebanon. Syrian Serin recording courtesy of Barry Edmonston, XC721507. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/721507. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. Please check out the website of our sponsor Tropical Birding: https://www.tropicalbirding.com/ If you wish to support this podcast, please visit our Patreon page: https://p...

Charley and Ken chat about Indonesia, sitting in the Garuda lounge of Jakarta international airport, surrounded by clinking dishes and screaming kids (sorry about the abient noise). Sumatran Ground-Cuckoo recording courtesy of Daan Drukker, XC964067. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/964067. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Please check out the website of our sponso...

Ken chats with Ryan and Derek Sallmann about their top 5 North American birding destinations, how to start international travel, and more. These guys run the Badgerland Birding YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPOxZjoHULhsO95SRN4ScPg) and Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-badgerland-birding-podcast/id1722771407). Theme music and outtro by John Behrens https://nash...