Life Kit: Help Save The North American Bird Population

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Many of us are off today for President's Day. In the meantime, we want to share this episode from our friends at NPR's Life Kit podcast. In it, they discuss the importance of birds as an "indicator species" – their health helps us understand the health of our environment. Plus, they collect expert tips on how we can help birds survive, and thrive.

For more of Audrey's reporting, check out "North American birds are in decline. Here are 8 simple ways you can help."

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0:00.0	Hey, Shore Waivers, Regina Barber here.
0:02.2	Happy President's Day.
0:04.0	If you're taking today off like most of our team,
0:06.7	you might go for a walk and see some birds,
0:09.2	maybe a sparrow or a finch.
0:11.8	North American birds are declining,
0:14.2	but today we're bringing you a life kit episode
0:16.4	on ways you can make a difference.
0:18.7	Enjoy.
0:20.2	This is NPR's life kit.
0:22.4	I'm Audrey Wen.
0:24.5	Springtime is here.
0:26.6	It's very beautiful here in Ethaca.
0:28.9	I can see the pond and yeah, pretty soon leaves
0:33.2	are going to be popping, not quite yet.
0:35.4	That's Miyoko Choo.
0:36.7	She's the director of communications
0:38.6	at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
0:41.4	It's a particularly exciting time to be talking to her
0:43.9	because spring migration is happening in my neck of the woods.
0:47.9	While some birds live by us year round,
0:50.3	there's lots of birds that will split their time
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