Urban Wildlife Podcast

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Humping Deer, Bearded Dragons, and Singing Toads: Part II Jul 16, 2016

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We had so much fun with cemeteries that we made two episodes! We record as guests of guest host Jessica Baumert, director of the the historic Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia. There we learned about their grave-digging ground hogs, shagging stags, and … Continue reading →

Humping Deer, Bearded Dragons, and Singing Toads: Part I Jul 16, 2016

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Urban Nature Bikesploration! Jun 26, 2016

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We’re not just urban wildlife podcasters, Tony and Billy are urban bikesplorers! Spoke Magazine and Hidden City set it up, and on Sunday June 19th we linked up with our podcast’s BFF Robin Irizarry of the Tookany/Tacony/Frankford Partnership to explore … Continue reading →

All the Urban Raptors We Could Fit in One Episode Jun 16, 2016

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Barred owls? Yep. Peregrine falcons? Got them too. Black sparrowhawks? You betcha! Osprey, tawny owls, and great horned owls also come up in the conversation with Rob Bierregaard as we stake out his backyard screech owls and talk about urban birds … Continue reading →

From Bison to Warblers, Connecting Youth to Wildlife Jun 02, 2016

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How do you connect urban kids with the nature next door? We talk to Justin Twist from Environmental Learning for Kids at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Denver, Hendra Aquan of Transformasi Hijau (Green Transformation) in Jakarta, and … Continue reading →

Save the Beetles and Salamanders! May 16, 2016

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Cities can rally ’round all sorts of mascots, even unconventionally charismatic micro fauna like beetles and salamanders. We talk with Nathan Bendik, who works to protect Austin, TX’s spring and cave salamanders, and we hear about York’s (UK) tansy beetles … Continue reading →

Urban Caracals and Barcelona Boars Apr 30, 2016

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This week we explore the Urban Caracal Project with Dr. Laurel Serieys and fawn over the most charismatic urban mesofauna we’ve seen to date (get a load of those ear tufts!). Caracals might have been enough to discuss on a … Continue reading →

Arthropods through the Ages Apr 15, 2016

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Join Billy, Tony, and guest host Ken Frank as we explore history through our many-legged neighbors and hitchhikers. Environmental Archeologist Allison Bain of Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada tells us how insects can teach us about the European colonization of North … Continue reading →

Urban Wildlife Art Mar 28, 2016

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Get inspired with urban corals and urban shaliks. Hannah Waters joins us as we hear from Coral Morphologic‘s Colin Foord to talk about the corals of Miami’s gritty waterways and art installations based on Miami’s marine life. Our synanthropic organism … Continue reading →

Happy World Sparrow Day! Mar 20, 2016

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We celebrate World Sparrow Day (March 20th) with a look at Passer domesticus, a bird North American birders love to hate, but that is in a mysterious decline in its native Eurasian range. We hear from Mohammed Dilawar, founder of … Continue reading →

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