Bring Birds Back

Host Tenijah Hamilton joins volunteers from Georgia Audubon and Trees Atlanta who are planting wildflowers and grasses along an urban rail trail, where she learns how native plants can provide food and shelter for birds within cities. She talks to ecologist Desiree Narango about why birds depend on plants, and how we can transform our backyards and shared green spaces to serve the needs of both pe...

The second of this two-part segment pulls apart the issues with cats and birds. Host Tenijah Hamilton gets an overview of how outdoor cats affect bird populations, why it’s such a controversial issue, and what’s to be done about it. She discusses this with producer Mark Bramhill and guests including Karen Krauss, and Joe Liebezeit. BirdNote is an independent nonprofit media production company. You...

The first of this two-part episode pulls apart the issues with cats and birds. Producer Mark Bramhill gives Tenijah  an overview of how outdoor cats affect bird populations, why it’s such a controversial issue, and what’s to be done about it. Guests including “The Cat Daddy,” Jackson Galaxy, and Dr. Peter Marra. BirdNote is an independent nonprofit media production company. Your dollars make it po...

Tenijah talks with NYC Audubon Senior Conservation Biologist Kaitlyn Parkins and Seattle Audubon Urban Conservation Manager Joshua Morris to break down the challenge that glass in our built environment poses to birds, how a local solution is becoming a national policy, and what you can do to support it. If you find a dead or injured bird, you can make an important contribution to bird mortality re...

In the second installment of Bring Birds Back, host Tenijah Hamilton and Sheridan Alford , co-founder of Black Birders Week, talk about how to celebrate Black people who love birds. Then they get out into the wilds of Georgia in search of, you guessed it, birds. Check out the #ForTheBirds Birding Playlist! Stream the official Sheridan Alford × BirdNote birding playlist on Apple Music and Spotify ....

In the inaugural episode of Bring Birds Back, host Tenijah Hamilton gets to know biostatistician Dr. Adam C. Smith, coauthor of the study that found we’ve lost 3 billion birds in North America in the last fifty years, and helps us wrap our heads around that gigantic number. The good news? There are lots of ways to help. Bring Birds Back is sponsored by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology . Resources: G...