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Laura Erickson's For the Birds — 286 episodes
Discovering Texas with Russ
Turning my universe right-side up.
Piping Plovers nesting at Wisconsin Point!
Botflies
Blowflies and other external parasites
Savoring and Wondering
Neighborly Exchanges
Feeding peanuts and corn safely.
When does autumn begin?
Forget Forgetfulness, Part 2: Blue Jays Just Wanna Have Fun
Forget Forgetfulness, Part 1--Symbiosis between Blue Jays and oaks.
Peabody Street Happenings
Hope for the Future
Bird Life on Islands
A future trip jogs memories of a past trip
Monarchs as Bird Food
Air Quality, Part 2
Air quality, Part 1
Canada Jay: What's in a Name?
Blue Jays: Family Ties, Part 2
To Sin by Silence
Moving Forward, and Now Backward, on the Lead Issue
How Lead in Ammo and Tackle Harm Wildlife
How Lead in Hunters' Ammo Harms Humans
Lead in Human History
Blue Jays--Family Ties, Part 1
Ludwig Part 3
Ludwig the Blue Jay, Part 2
Ludwig the Blue Jay, Part 1
My Top Ten Favorite Birds
Not a very warm welcome
You CAN Go Home Again
Down to the Wire (Time Sensitive)
Whip-poor-will
NDAs and Our Culture of Secrecy, Part 2: Democracy dies in darkness
NDAs and Our Culture of Secrecy, Part 1: Not All Secrets Are Bad.
An Essay by My Inspirational Mentor
"Anything Can Happen" Day
Thank You, Horned Larks
The Colors of Everyday Life
Harris's Hawk and the Movie "Hamnet"
For the Birds Retrospective, Part 3: Things start to get silly.
For the Birds Retrospective Part 2-Radio?!
For the Birds Retrospective: Part 1, seeking my niche in the Duluth birding community
OLDIE: Jim Baker's Oil of Ojay
OLDIE: Jim Baker's Blue Jay Board Games
OLDIE: Turn Around
OLDIE: Jim Baker's Jaybelline Eye Cosmetics
OLDIE: Where, Oh Where
OLDIE: Testimonials about Earth Angel Bird Identification Binoculars
OLDIE: Baker's Blue Jay Video Games
OLDIE: Baker's Blue Jay Blend: Not Just for Blue Jays Anymore
The Brown Creeper Who Went to School
Brown Creepers
The costs of AI and the "Cloud" (Revised and updated)
Our Growing Reliance on Big Data
Of Baseball, Curling, and Boreal Owls
The Green Green Grass of Golf
The Green Green Grass of Home
Monofilament
"Set of Years"
Bucephala!!
Superb Owl Sunday 2026
Hummingbirds Pre-History
Hummingbirds: The Big Picture
Blue-gray Tanager!
Cocks-of-the-rock!!
Chickadee Strong
Enough is enough
The Day of the Condor, Part 2
Day of the Condor, Part 1
2026: The Year of the Pigeon?
The Darkling Thrush
Homecoming
Ecuador!
Katie's Birthday
Ecuador!
Energy Star
Fakery
Big Data
Book Review: New edition of the National Geographic guide
Another October Rarity: A Cattle Egret!
Dealing with the sun, insects, difficult terrain, and heavy equipment
Staying Healthy for Birding at 73
Keeping my brain sharp at 73
A Black Phoebe in Minnesota?!
Chestnut-collared Longspur in Two Harbors!
Longspurs!
Sun Parakeet
My Top Bird Guides: Leon Moore
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 4: Finding Saw-whet Owls
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 3
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 2
Saw-whet Owl Banding, Part 1
How Do Nocturnal Migrants Avoid Collisions?
The One That Got Away, and the One That Didn't (Just Barely)
Nocturnal Migration: Navigation
Nocturnal Migration: Why?
Sixty Years
Summer of the Flickers
Why do birds migrate?
Armchair Lifers
August Bird Movements
A Little Boy Turns Five
The Omega and the Alpha
The Bold and the Beautiful
Beyond Florida: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Florida: Why I Love It, and Why I'm Boycotting It, Part I
Sunbathing, Blue Jay Style
O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay!
WHOA! I'm quoted in a special edition of LIFE!!!
Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket, Part 2
Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket, Part 1
Biological Realities, Part 2
Biological Realities, Part 1
Dog fur controversy?
Setting out pet fur for birds is dangerous.
My Boyfriend's Back!
Darkening Skies
Out of the ashes...
Hey! My eyes are up here!
Magnificent Frigatebird
Magnificent Frigatebird!
Wealth
The Dry Tortugas!
The Pelicans of Chamber's Grove
Earth Day 2025
Through a Glass, Darkly
Guyana!
The Dry Tortugas!
Birding with a Camera
Emerging from a Numerical Haze
Woodcocks!
Updates from Earth Angel and Jim Baker
Cuban Woodpeckers
The Tiniest Bird in the Universe
What to do if you find a dead bird in your yard
Bird feeding recommendations during the bird flu outbreak
Bird Flu Update
The Most Adorable Bird in the Universe
A Personal Ray of Hope
My 2025 Chickadee Pilgrimage
Cuba!!!
Explosions R Us
Superb Owl Sunday 2025
The Best Pine Siskin EVER!
Pine Siskins!
Bird Flu Update
Another Owl Adventure
The Completely Made-Up Story of Frederick the Nighthawk and Sneakers the Blue Jay
Staying Healthy While Birding in Other Countries
BB Update
A Great American President
Owl Irruption
Year of the Chickadee, Part 3
Year of the Chickadee, Part 2
Year of the Chickadee, Part 1
Empathy: An Innate Quality
Learning Empathy from the Best
Premature obituaries
Exit, pursued by a Cooper's Hawk
No Way to Stop It
Frigid Temperatures
Albatrosses
Thanksgiving 2024
In Retrospect: The BP oil spill. Part 5b--Complicity
In Retrospect: The BP oil spill. Part 5--Staying alive to fight another day
In Retrospect: The BP oil spill, Part 4
In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 3
In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 2
Look to the Chickadees
In retrospect: The BP Oil Spill, Part 1
Standing up to them
You're not getting older, you're getting better--oh, wait--you ARE getting older
Transmission Lines, Part 2
Transmission Lines
Going to a Scientific Meeting in 2024
Going to Scientific Meetings in Past Decades
Emergency Responders: Blue Jay Style
Mistakes R Us
Oops! Correcting the record
Stokes Guide to Finches: Hawaiian Honeycreepers
Stokes Guide to Finches: Evening Grosbeaks
Stokes Guide to Finches: Goldfinches
For the Finches: How Lillian Stokes and Matt Young connected thanks to Red Crossbills
Book Review: The Stokes Guide to Finches
American Golden-Plover
Blue Jay migration
Birdbaths!
Nighthawks!
Peabody Street Update: The Good News and the Bad News
Hummingbirds!
Joan Brigham at 100!
Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 5B: Why Vilify Rachel Carson?
Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 5 A: The battle on the DDT front
Birds Off a Feather
The bear necessities and other close encounters of the mammalian kind
Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 4: The Empire Strikes Back
In the Catbird's Seat: A momentary diversion from more important matters
Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 3: A New Hope
Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections, Part 2: Pollution—A Way of Life
When a Stranger Knocks (A momentary diversion from more important matters)
Crafting Invincible Environmental Protections Part 1: How Bad It Used to Be
Hoarding
Crow vocalizations and good news
Crows and the Unknowable
My Backyard Habitat
Flashcards
Veery
Superiority
Golden-winged Warblers
Connecticut Warbler
A Tale of Two Endangered Species: Bachman's and Kirtland's Warblers
Looking for Wood Thrushes
Loggerhead Shrike!
Crested Caracara in Wisconsin
Pileated Update
Scarlet Tanagers!
Review: The Breeding Birds of Minnesota
Red-headed Woodpecker!
Katie's Boo Jays
Merlin: All Wizards Have Limitations
Jelly Redux
Review: Kenn Kaufman's new book, The Birds that Audubon Missed. Part 2
Kenn Kaufman's new book: The Birds That Audubon Missed, Part 1
Lincoln's Sparrow
My favorite spring arrivals
Rat Poison
May Day!
Don't Count Your Chickens...
Here come the chickens!
The Sapsucker–Hummingbird Connection
Hawaii before chickens and humans arrived
Chickens, Part 1.5: Kin of Chickens
Chickens, Part I: Domestication
Solar Eclipse!
Trip Guilt and Guilt Trips
Redpolls!
Jim Baker Announces a New Product!
Flaco: Post Mortem
Stopping by Peabody Street on a Snowy Morning
Separation Anxiety
Every Day Is a Gift, Part 3: The Big Island
Every Day Is a Gift, Part 2: Kauaʻi
Every Day Is a Gift, Part I: Oahu
Our Changing World
Why I Live in Duluth
February Update
Death of a New York Celebrity: Flaco the Owl
Mission Accomplished: Fieldfare!!
Chickadee with a Deformed Bill
Fieldfare: The One That Got Away
Preparing for a Birding Trip
Superb Owl Sunday
A Matter of Balance
Warm Winter
So it goes....
Brooding over Cicadas
More about the Golden-winged Warbler
Warblers!
Ancient Murrelets!
Starting 2024 Right!
Happy 2024
A Promising New Year
Birding on a Warmish December Day
Birding on a Cold November Day
Toddler-Approved Bird Books, Part 3b
Toddler-Approved Bird Books, Part 3a
Florida Scrub-Jays, Part 3: To Feed or Not to Feed
Thanksgiving 2023
Let's Talk Turkey
Toddler-Approved Books, Part 2: Identification Guides
Toddler-Approved Bird Books
Scrub Jays: From one species to four
The Healing Grace of Birds
Florida Scrub-Jay, Part 2b: To Know Them Is to Love Them
Florida Scrub-Jay, Part 2a: To Know Them Is to Love Them
What's in a Name?
Birding Ethics
Our Responsibilities in Old Age
Florida Scrub-Jays, Part I
When Plans Go Awry
Flamingo Road, Part 2
Flamingo Road, Part I
When Numbers Get Serious
Odd-tober!