Happy Earth Day, Nature Lovers! This week, CJ is joined by Edward Warden from Chicago Ornithological Society and Emily Kenny from Forrest Preserve District of Will County to talk about the City Nature Challenge! Throughout this upcoming weekend Friday April 26 - Monday April 29, participants from over 350 cities across the globe will be competing to upload observations to iNaturalist!

Make sure to get outside this upcoming weekend and participate!

If you're local to the Chicagoland Region, check out Chicago Wilderness Alliance's webpage to find a local event: https://www.chicagowilderness.org/page/CityNatureChallenge

More episodes of The Birdy Bunch Podcast will be coming soon!

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Or follow us on Instagram: @TheBirdyBunchPodcast

Thank you to our Patrons for supporting Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast; visit www.Patreon.com/TheBirdyBunchPodcast to sign up.

Guess what, Nature Lovers? The Birdy Bunch Podcast is back! This week, CJ is joined by their dear friend and incredible colleague, Henry Adams! Henry is the Wildlife Management Coordinator with the Urban Wildlife Center at Lincoln Park Zoo and joins The Birdy Bunch Podcast to discuss Wildlife Disease Ecology! From birds in the Everglades to amphibians in Costa Rica, Henry has some fun stories to share! In addition, Henry and CJ chat about the Black-crowned Night Heron in this episode's Creature Feature! Make sure to give this episode a listen! If you enjoy this episode and want more from The Birdy Bunch Podcast, make sure to give us a review!

More episodes of The Birdy Bunch Podcast will be coming soon!

For more information, visit our website: www.TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com

Or follow us on Instagram: @TheBirdyBunchPodcast

Thank you to our Patrons for supporting Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast; visit www.Patreon.com/TheBirdyBunchPodcast to sign up.

Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast is hosted, edited, and produced by CJ Greco. Special thank you to Sarah Dunlap - for designing our logo, and Conner Wittman - for producing our music.

The mission of The Birdy Bunch Podcast is to inspire an inclusive community for conservation by using education to promote fascination.

Are you outdoorsy or outsidesy, Nature Lovers? In this episode of The Birdy Bunch Podcast, CJ chatted with Dr. Brian Peterson, host of the podcast All Bodies Outside! They discuss what it means to spend time in the outdoors, access to green spaces, and all things conservation podcasts! They also talk about some of Brian’s work in understanding human-made noises in national parks! In addition, CJ and Brian feature the charismatic largest squirrel - the marmot! For more information about All Bodies Outside, you can follow the podcast on Instagram, Facebook, or Threads(?!) @AllBodiesOutside or visit the website www.allbodiesoutside.com.

Take the time to get outside today, Nature Lovers!!

Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast will be posted on the first and the final Mondays of each month! Thanks for listening, nature lovers!

For more information, visit our website: www.TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com

Or follow us on Instagram: @TheBirdyBunchPodcast

Thank you to our Patrons for supporting Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast; visit www.Patreon.com/TheBirdyBunchPodcast to sign up.

Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast is hosted, edited, and produced by CJ Greco. Special thank you to Sarah Dunlap - for designing our logo, and Conner Wittman - for producing our music.

The mission of The Birdy Bunch Podcast is to inspire an inclusive community for conservation by using education to promote fascination.

July is Disability Pride Month! For this episode of The Birdy Bunch Podcast, CJ is joined by good friend Freya McGregor, owner and founder of Access Birding. Freya and CJ are talking all about access and inclusion in the outdoors, as well as Disability Pride! In addition, we feature the Magnolia Warbler, a small migratory bird that shared an almost magical moment with CJ and Freya! For more information about Freya, visit her website: www.FreyaMcGregor.com or follow her on social media @the.ot.birder . Also, make sure to visit www.AccessBirding.com and follow @Access.Birding on social media for more information about Access Birding!

Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast will be posted on the first and the final Mondays of each month! Thanks for listening, nature lovers!

For more information, visit our website: www.TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com

Or follow us on Instagram: @TheBirdyBunchPodcast

Thank you to our Patrons for supporting Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast; visit www.Patreon.com/TheBirdyBunchPodcast to sign up.

Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast is hosted, edited, and produced by CJ Greco. Special thank you to Sarah Dunlap - for designing our logo, and Conner Wittman - for producing our music.

The mission of The Birdy Bunch Podcast is to inspire an inclusive community for conservation by using education to promote fascination.

Pride month may be over, but The Birdy Bunch Podcast is back!! On our kick-off to Season 4, we’re taking another look at one of our favorite topics - Queer Ecology! CJ is joined by Dani Abboud (they/them) and Jenna John (she/her), who spoke at the Wild Things Conference about Queer Ecology back in February 2023. In addition to thinking about how we can reframe conservation through a new lens, we also discuss the May edition of the Parks Stewardship Forum, and feature our first creature of season four - the lesbian lizard! Thanks again to Dani and Jenna for guesting on this special queer episode!

Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast will be posted on the first and the final Mondays of each month! Thanks for listening, nature lovers!

For more information, visit our website: www.TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com

Thank you to our Patrons for supporting Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast; visit www.Patreon.com/TheBirdyBunchPodcast to sign up.

The Birdy Bunch Podcast was created by Matt Valiga & CJ Greco. Season 4 is hosted, edited, and produced by CJ Greco. Thank you to Matt Valiga and Brittany Busleta-Lewandowski for their contributions on previous seasons.

Special thank you to Sarah Dunlap - for designing our logo, and Conner Wittman - for producing our music.

The mission of The Birdy Bunch Podcast is to inspire an inclusive community for conservation by using education to promote fascination.

Smashing! It’s our final episode of 2022 and we sure are thankful for all of your support, Nature Lovers! In this fun filled 2022 finale, we have Bob Dolgan join us to talk about his incredible series of documentary films as well as all things birding and media! In addition, CJ features the one of the many birdy stars of Bob’s film “The Magic Stump”, and Brittany shares a current event with us about a new species of sunbird! Make sure to use the code “THANKYOU22” for 15% off everything in our merch store! And with that, we’ll catch ya next year!

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

08:45 - Creature Feature

18:45 - Current Events

24:58 - Media in Conservation with Bob Dolgan

01:02:46 - Outro

For more information about The Birdy Bunch Podcast, visit TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com.

Special thank you to Sarah Dunlap - for designing our logo and Conner Wittman - for producing our music.

For The Birdy Bunch loved the nature lovers, that we gave you this episode! Don’t sleep on this on, listeners! Instead give it a download to learn all about how animals spend their winters! In addition, Matt features a blue creature known for going fast and CJ talks about a current event involving yetis?! Torpor, hibernation, brumation, oh my! Join us for a fun episode as we start to prepare for our own winter naps!! It’s an episode of The Birdy Bunch you won't want to miss, so tell your friends if they listen they will not be bored, but instead have an everlasting good time.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

04:07 - Creature Feature

12:52 - Current Events

19:09 - Hi-bear-nation! You’ll never believe how these animals spend their winters! Not clickbait!

33:42 - Outro

For more information about The Birdy Bunch Podcast, visit TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com.

Special thank you to Sarah Dunlap - for designing our logo and Conner Wittman - for producing our music.

Let’sa Go! We’re back in the Spooky habit this week, Nature Lovers! It’s time for Spooky Creatures III for our final Episode of this year’s Spooky Bunch! But don’t you worry, even though The Spooky Bunch Poscast is creeping away for the year, it will be back again in 2023, and we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming in just afew weeks. In addition to our Spooky Creatures, Matt features a horrific invertebrate as our creature feature and Brittany tells the tale of new found Cane Toads in New South Wales. It’s the final episode of The Spooky Bunch and it’s certainly got some twists and turns you’ll get shivers from! Ya-hoo!

Make sure to use the code “SPOOKY2022’ for 15% off our merch store!!! Only for the rest of this month!

Timestamps:

00:00 - Spook Intro

06:57 - Spooky Creature Feature

13:58 - Spooky Current Events

20:24 - Spooky Creatures III

47:17 - Spooky Outro

For more information about The Birdy Bunch Podcast, visit TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com.

Special thank you to Sarah Dunlap - for designing our logo and Conner Wittman - for producing our music.