Evolutionary Biologist Scott Taylor And Birds
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
They’re everywhere, after all.Despite their constant presence in our lives and our world, there’s still a lot left to understand about our clawed compatriots. What if we could learn more about them with a bit of intentional observation? And in watching birds, maybe learn something about ourselves?
We sit down with University of Colorado Boulder professor Scott Taylor to talk about his new podcast, “Okay, But… Birds.”
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| 0:15.8 | Science Delivers.com. It's a stressful day at your office, or maybe your room turned into an office. |
| 0:30.5 | You want to get away from the sounds of notifications, meeting alerts, Zoom calls. |
| 0:35.3 | You step outside for your lunch break. |
| 0:37.4 | No matter where outside is for you, anywhere in the world, you'll likely hear birds. |
| 1:21.4 | Oh, who, who, who, who, whee. The That was a morning dove, a cardinal, a chickadee, a hermit thrush, and a common loon. |
| 1:28.8 | Birds, we think we know them, what they usually look like, what makes a bird a bird, where they come from. They're everywhere, after all, but less so now than in the past. What if we know less about birds than we |
| 1:34.3 | think? What if we could learn more about them with a bit of intentional observation? And in the |
| 1:39.8 | process, maybe learn something about ourselves and what we need to do to keep them around for decades to come. |
| 1:45.7 | Scott Taylor joins us after the break for a chat all about birds and answers your questions. |
| 1:51.2 | He's a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
| 1:56.7 | and the director of the university's Mountain Research Station. |
| 2:00.3 | He's also host of the new science |
| 2:02.0 | podcast, okay, but birds. It's out now. I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A podcast. We'll be back |
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