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First Aired - 03/28/2013 12:45PM
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On this week's urban farming update, Ben Flanner talks about some recent experiences with birds at the farm! Sound interesting? Tune in and find out more!
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Week 6 - Birds! (30:00)
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warmth, hoop house, seeds, tomatoes, okra, eggplant, peppers, bulbs, flowers, hawk, chickens, raptors, rats, chicken meet-ups, chicken wire, CSA, Long Island City, volunteer, Brooklyn Grange,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/15/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides talks about pollution in some of our New York waterways. Also, he talks about hibernating animals and winter birds.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Newtown Creek (10:10)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Salumi Artisinal Cured Meats, Newtown Creek, the border between Queens & Brooklyn, seals are back in New York harbor, wildlife, newtown Creek is one of the nations most polluted waterways, underground water spill has been causing problems in Greenpoint for decades, the creek is a dead end, EPA, sediment, contamination was found in just about every part of the creek, gas plants, asphalt plants, PCB's, chemicals, remediation,Toxic Algae & Brown Tide (16:50)
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Gowanus Canal, fish are back in the creek, blue fish, the waterway is being cleaned, Greenport, Long Island, scallop industry, November opening of scallop season, toxic marine algae, brown tide, economically devastating harvest, toxic plankton, Suffolk County, Peconic Bay, Orient Point, spawning and fertilization, Nature Conservancy, Stonybrook University, Long Island University, Cornell University, nitrogen, the abductor muscle is the only edible part of the scallop,Winter Birds & Hibernating Animals (13:26)
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hibernation, squirrels, acorns, birds, chickadees, sparrows, cardinal, starling, winter vacation, which animals are still out in the wintertime?, city parks, bird feeder, bird seed mixes, the white breasted nut hatch, downy woodpecker, Carolina wren, fox sparrow, American goldfinch, why hibernate?, energy comes from food which is often difficult to find in the winter, mammals are warm blooded, Groundhog's Day, Mayor Bloomberg, cold blooded animals cannot survive in the snow and ice, salamander, insects, larva, pupa, praying mantis,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/28/2011 12:00PM
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The Naturalist returns to the airwaves after a short break, and Carol A. Butler recaps her wonderful Winter NY Cruise. Tune in and learn more about the hidden natural world of New York City including some fun facts about seals and cormorants. Later in the show, Carol & Bernie preview some new projects and talk about the various eye functions of different birds and insects. This episode was sponsored by Route 11 Potato Chips / Tabard Inn. For more information visit www.TabardInn.com
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The Naturalist Introduction: New York Winter Cruise (19:50)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A Butler, Winter Cruise, sponsored by the New York Auduhn Society, seals, Red Hook, gulls, winter birds, shore birds, cormorants, water birds, in Asia they use cormorants are pets, used for fishing, Trinidad, Tobago,Eye Functionality in Insects & Birds (21:36)
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hummingbirds, Costa Rica, butterfly farms, cloud forest, Texas is a great place for migrating birds, bird photography, function of the eye, insects and birds, how different animals see differently, birds eye view, what does it look like to a be when they see a flower?, blind cave fish, DarwIn, bees have five eyes, three more light sensitive undeveloped eyes on their head, bee swarms, sperm whales, physically the largest eye in the animal kingdom, birds have the largest proportional eyes,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
