Ask Me Anything About Birds - Summer 2025

The Science of Birds

Ivan Phillipsen

Natural History, Science, Nature, Birds, Birdwatching, Life Sciences, Biology, Birding

4.8 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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👕 Bird Merch — Get yourself some bird shirts! ~~~ In this episode—which is Number 120—Ivan answers questions sent in by listeners. So this is what we call an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode. The listeners who get to contribute questions for these Ask Me Anything episodes are members of the Science of Birds community on Patreon. There are several tiers of support that people can join, and at the Helpful Hornbill and Awesome Osprey level, one perk is getting to contribute questions for e...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome.
0:09.7	This is the Science of Birds.
0:16.5	I am your host, Ivan Philipson.
0:19.9	The Science of Birds podcast is a lighthearted exploration of bird biology for lifelong learners.
0:26.6	This episode, which is number 120, is an Ask Me Anything episode, or AMA.
0:34.3	A little while ago, I invited the members of my Patreon community to send me their questions about birds.
0:41.3	I do this every so often, and they did a great job this time. They sent in a bunch of questions for this episode.
0:48.3	It's always interesting to hear what people are curious about when it comes to birds.
0:53.3	You guys often come up with questions
0:55.0	that I've never even considered before. Some of them are kind of out of left field, and I love that.
1:00.8	So thank you to my supporters on Patreon, and if you would like to become a member and contribute
1:05.8	questions to future episodes like this one, just check out my Patreon page over at patreon.com slash
1:12.9	science of birds. And there's a support to show link somewhere in the show notes down at the
1:17.8	bottom. So we've got a wide variety of fun topics to discuss today. And FYI, I'm still
1:24.5	traveling in Japan. So, Konigua. Hello.
1:31.8	I'm sitting here in my little hotel room, sipping my macha latte.
1:33.2	I'm in Tokyo.
1:35.3	It's a nice sunny day out there.
1:42.3	Anyway, unlike most of my full-length podcast episodes, I am not working off of a script today. I'm just freewheeling it using an outline. I will try not to be
1:47.1	too rambling and incoherent. Now, I've said this before, but I want to emphasize that I, Ivan
1:53.9	Philipson, am not a walking, talking, ruggedly handsome dictionary of bird facts. Sure, I know a thing or two about birds,
2:03.1	but to answer at least some of the questions in today's episode, I had to do a little research
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