Discover the unique ways that birds understand the world through their senses! Some birds have bendy beaks, some swivel their eyes, and others sense magnetic fields. Andrew Iwaniuk is an expert on bird brains, and he helps us explore specialized bird senses and how their brains work! Send us your bird questions! We'll answer them in our end of year episode. Email podcast@birdscanada.orgSend Birds Canada a message on Instagram, Facebook or Bluesky Or leave us a voicemail at 51...
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Discover the unique ways that birds understand the world through their senses! Some birds have bendy beaks, some swivel their eyes, and others sense magnetic fields. Andrew Iwaniuk is an expert on bird brains, and he helps us explore specialized bird senses and how their brains work! Send us your bird questions! We'll answer them in our end of year episode. Email podcast@birdscanada.orgSend Birds Canada a message on Instagram, Facebook or Bluesky Or leave us a voicemail at 51...
Revisiting Chewie the Piping Plover, and Queerness in Nature
The Warblers by Birds Canada
11 minutes
5 months ago
Revisiting Chewie the Piping Plover, and Queerness in Nature
While working with Piping Plovers in June of 2022, Andrea Gress and the rest of the plover team, observed a same-sex pairing between two well known plovers. It was a first for the species. But was it really? In today's episode, Andrea shares a brief history of how queerness in nature was viewed by the scientific community, and how these perspectives have evolved. To explore this further, we also re-share an episode originally aired in 2022: Piping Plovers - A Love Story. As ...
The Warblers by Birds Canada
Discover the unique ways that birds understand the world through their senses! Some birds have bendy beaks, some swivel their eyes, and others sense magnetic fields. Andrew Iwaniuk is an expert on bird brains, and he helps us explore specialized bird senses and how their brains work! Send us your bird questions! We'll answer them in our end of year episode. Email podcast@birdscanada.orgSend Birds Canada a message on Instagram, Facebook or Bluesky Or leave us a voicemail at 51...
