Migratory Birds: What a Long-Range Trip It's Been
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 18 June 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
| 0:02.9 | So, Benny has really blossomed this term. |
| 0:05.6 | You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay. |
| 0:09.5 | Oh, that's not quite what I meant. |
| 0:11.1 | It's free to sell on there? |
| 0:12.3 | Free to sell? |
| 0:13.4 | Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket. |
| 0:16.8 | You sold my guitar? |
| 0:19.9 | Shall we talk about Benny? |
| 0:22.1 | When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay. |
| 0:26.7 | Things people love. T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on June 18, 2015. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Steve Murski. |
| 0:39.8 | On this episode... For five years when I was there opening the miznets, every spring migration, we capture the same wood trush in the same |
| 0:48.1 | net, in the same lower position. That's ornithologist Eduardo Enigo Elias. He's a senior research associate with the |
| 0:55.5 | Conservation Science Program at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. He runs various programs |
| 1:01.0 | related to the conservation of primarily migratory birds from the U.S. and Canada that go to |
| 1:06.0 | Latin America, where they winter and breed. It's the 100th anniversary of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology this year, |
| 1:12.4 | so in April, I and my appropriately named scientific American colleague Robin Lloyd |
| 1:17.0 | traveled up to Ithaca to talk to a few of the scientists at the lab. |
| 1:21.0 | You'll be hearing more of those conversations over the next few months. |
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