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Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Laura Erickson
250 episodes
12 hours ago
"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.
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"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.
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Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Book Review: New edition of the National Geographic guide
It's comprehensive and includes birds of Hawaii now, but is too big to carry in the field, and the font is much too small to be readable for me.
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12 hours ago
7 minutes 55 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Another October Rarity: A Cattle Egret!
What's a cattle egret doing just outside Duluth around Halloween?
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6 days ago
5 minutes 54 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Dealing with the sun, insects, difficult terrain, and heavy equipment
Laura talks about how she protects herself from sunburn, bug bites, and falls while traveling, and also how she manages her heavy equipment in her dotage.
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1 week ago
6 minutes 20 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Staying Healthy for Birding at 73
Laura is trying to keep her body fit and healthy so she can keep birding.
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1 week ago
4 minutes 53 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Keeping my brain sharp at 73
Now that Laura's in her seventies, she's developed a few strategies for keeping her mind and body fit for birding tours.
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1 week ago
6 minutes 4 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
A Black Phoebe in Minnesota?!
A Black Phoebe, a species of the American Southwest not known for wandering, showed up at Gooseberry Falls this weekend.
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2 weeks ago
7 minutes 11 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Chestnut-collared Longspur in Two Harbors!
On Saturday, Laura saw a brand new, long-coveted state bird for Minnesota--a Chestnut-collared Longspur
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2 weeks ago
6 minutes 11 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Longspurs!
Laura tells us about her experiences with a group of little birds that were once considered sparrows.
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2 weeks ago
7 minutes 9 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Sun Parakeet
When Laura was in Guyana, she fell in love with this stunningly beautiful bird, a species that is globally endangered thanks to the pet trade. (Laura is presenting a Zoom program for subscribers to [her blog](https://lauraerickson.substack.com/) on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 7 pm CDT. The invitation is embedded in her blog post, ["You're Invited"](https://lauraerickson.substack.com/p/youre-invited).)
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3 weeks ago
5 minutes 26 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
My Top Bird Guides: Leon Moore
Laura's Guyana trip this year was led by one of the best bird guides Laura has ever spent time with. What makes a good bird guide truly great? Laura will be doing a live Zoom presentation about her Guyana trip for subscribers (free or paid) of her Substack blog next Tuesday night (October 21 at 7 pm CDT). The program will be recorded and made available on her website.
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4 weeks ago
7 minutes 51 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 4: Finding Saw-whet Owls
How can we find owls on our own?
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1 month ago
4 minutes 42 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 3
The more bird banders learn about owls, the more questions they have.
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1 month ago
5 minutes 48 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 2
After saw-whet owls molt out of their baby feathers in summer, it's impossible to look at any Northern Saw-whet Owl and know what sex it is or how old it is unless it's in the hand and we're armed with measuring tools and a black light.
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1 month ago
5 minutes 33 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 1
Laura got to spend Saturday night watching saw-whet owls get banded at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory.
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1 month ago
5 minutes

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
How Do Nocturnal Migrants Avoid Collisions?
Birds flying at night must avoid collisions with obstructions as they take off and land, and with one another as they cruise along. How do they do it?
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1 month ago
6 minutes 41 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
The One That Got Away, and the One That Didn't (Just Barely)
Park Point's been a happenin' place this week! A couple of extremely rare vagrants were there for days or at least hours, but Laura wasn't as lucky as she wished.
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1 month ago
4 minutes 41 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Nocturnal Migration: Navigation
How can birds find their way in the dark? The answer is nuanced, so today's program is condensed from the much longer blogpost.
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2 months ago
5 minutes 16 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Nocturnal Migration: Why?
Why do birds with poor night vision migrate at nighttime?
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2 months ago
5 minutes 53 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Sixty Years
Laura got a crush on the boy in front of her in homeroom sixty years ago this week!
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2 months ago
5 minutes 58 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Summer of the Flickers
Thirty-one years ago, Laura and her family had some very memorable experiences with two baby flickers.
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2 months ago
8 minutes 28 seconds

Laura Erickson's For the Birds
"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.