Urban Wildlife Podcast
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 88:40:03
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Sinopse
Think you can't experience wildlife in the city? Get wild right where you live with the Urban Wildlife Podcast. Hosts Billy and Tony explore the fauna and flora of cities around the globe.
Episódios
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Urban Coyotes with Stan Gehrt
10/03/2024 Duração: 01h28minTony and Billy talk with one of their urban wildlife heroes, Stan Gehrt, who has been studying Chicago’s coyotes for more than 20 years. Dr. Gehrt has just authored a new book Coyotes Among Us: Secrets of the City’s top … Continue reading →
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It’s Always Groundhog Day
11/02/2024 Duração: 01h05minTony and Billy talk about one of their favorite critters, the (urban) woodchuck (a.k.a. groundhog, monax, whistle pig, etc.) and its marmot relatives around the globe. Other topics include yellow-bellied and hoary marmots; when iNaturalist makes it look like a … Continue reading →
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Tony and Billy Catch up and Opine on Beavers, Hunting & Conservation, and Land.
15/08/2023 Duração: 01h36minTony and Billy got together ostensibly to talk about urban beavers (Castor canadensis), but the conversation wandered far and wide, touching on such subjects as hunting and conservation, rowhouse rednecks, groom cakes, Coleman coolers, the absurdity of private land ownership, … Continue reading →
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Charismatic Mega Fish Fauna
28/05/2023 Duração: 01h04minThe biggest animal in Philadelphia (and other port cities) isn’t a deer or a coyote, it’s a fish. We talk with biologist Shannon White about Atlantic sturgeon and her research into their depressingly reduced populations. We talk about how the … Continue reading →
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Chasing the Urban Exotic Episode Repost (In Memory of Scott McWilliams)
28/05/2023 Duração: 54minIn memory of Scott McWilliams, who passed away from brain cancer recently, we are reposting this episode from 2015. Scott was a great Philadelphian, physician, Billy’s herping buddy and close friend, and an endlessly inquisitive naturalist.
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Harbor Seals to Whales, Everything in Between
08/04/2023 Duração: 42minAndrew Budziak traveled from Vancouver to St. John’s and four cities in between to photograph Canadian urban wildlife for his video series Edge of Frame. Billy and Andrew talk about the wildlife he saw and the humans too. You can … Continue reading →
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The Most Beautiful Snake in the Country
15/03/2023 Duração: 36minThe San Francisco garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia) is shockingly beautiful and sadly endangered. It’s small range lies within the San Francisco Bay Area (no surprise there), one of the most densely populated regions of the United States. Billy is … Continue reading →
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The Tyranny of Roads (and what to do about it)
29/01/2023 Duração: 35minYou might only think of them as paths from here to there, but roads are vast structures whose density largely defines urban areas and determine what can survive in them. Darryl Jones, author of A Clouded Leopard in the Middle … Continue reading →
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Post Office Fossils and Mountain Beavers
19/12/2022 Duração: 32minSeattle naturalist and author David B. Williams talks with Billy about the urban nature world of Seattle, including the geology of building stone, backyard eagles, and mountain beavers. (and if anyone out there wants to do a full episode about … Continue reading →
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What do to about deer?
29/09/2022 Duração: 53minThere are too many white-tailed deer for forests in much of eastern North America to regenerate. Should we put them on birth control? Should we let hunters take care of the problem? Is more-intensive culling the solution? Can wolves and … Continue reading →
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Book Talk: Exploring Philly Nature and BEYOND!
03/08/2022 Duração: 35minBilly’s book, Exploring Philly Nature: A Guide for All Four Seasons is out! Buy your copy ASAP! (go ahead, this podcast episode will still be here when you’re done). Tony’s got some book ideas too (and a R.A.M.B.O. album due … Continue reading →
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City Nature Challenge and Urban Biodiversity in Southern Ecuador
28/04/2022 Duração: 53min(English/Español) The City Nature Challenge starts on Friday, April 29, and in this episode Billy talks with Angel Mario Hualpa Erazo of Ecuador’s Green Jewel, based in Loja in southern Ecuador. We get to know Loja, hear about Green Jewel’s … Continue reading →
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Save the Rats
15/03/2022 Duração: 37minUrbanites are starting to learn to live with predators like coyotes, bobcats, and hawks, but what about their rodent prey, like rats? We talk with political scientist and human/wildlife researcher Christian Hunold about his paper looking at rodenticide bans and … Continue reading →
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A New Urban Hunter
24/01/2022 Duração: 20minTroy Bynum (@tb_wildlife_photography on Instagram) is Philly naturalist, wildlife photographer, and a new urban hunter. Troy talks with Billy about the experience of hunting for the first time, and they discuss issues of race and hunting.
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A New Hope: Advocating for Wildlife, Cats, and People in Tulsa
23/12/2021 Duração: 47minLocal wildlife lovers and cat lovers can all feel outgunned and overwhelmed when the national, multi-million-dollar organizations that push TNR come to town. Tulsans for Public Safety shows how one community has organized on a grassroots level to promote sound … Continue reading →
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Best Summer Ever
11/12/2021 Duração: 42minBilly and Tony chat about a summer spent doing urban environmental education together.
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Wildlife of Urban Zanzibar
12/07/2021 Duração: 36minLearn about the neighborhood galagos and the red-banded rubber frogs of urban Zanzibar with Jonathan Richard Walz. Billy and Tony talk with Richard about the urban wildlife of this corner of East Africa as well as the impact of the … Continue reading →
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Should Billy Take Up Hunting?
26/05/2021 Duração: 40minInspired by a conversation with past podcast guest Brad Gates, Billy, who has been vegetarian for over 25 years, is thinking about taking up urban hunting. Tony and Billy talk about the implications, ethical and ecological.
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Juncos Take Los Angeles
08/05/2021 Duração: 32minThe city can be a tough place for a little bird, unless that city has lots of pine trees and cozy places to build nests. Dark eyed juncos have adapted to Los Angeles, and we’ll hear about it from ornithologist … Continue reading →
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The Cat that Changed America
11/04/2021 Duração: 35minTony and Billy talk with Tony Lee, film producer and author of The Cat that Changed America, the story of Los Angeles’ P22 mountain lion.