Bird Nerd Book Club

About Bird Nerd Book Club

Join in each month to hear from some of your favorite bird-related authors about their current and upcoming books! Host is Hannah from Hannah and Erik Go Birding and Women Birders (Happy Hour).

Publisher

Hannah Buschert

Category

arts · leisure · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Mar 2023

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Penny Harr - Anne LaBastille

   Penny Harr brings award-winning wildlife ecologist and bestselling author Anne LaBastille to life in the first-ever biography, entitled Anne LaBastille. She was a trailblazer in every sense of the word. Perhaps best known for her seminal wilderness book Woodswoman, recounting her years spent living in a remote Adirondacks cabin, and which inspired countless women to shun societal dictates and pursue their passions, LaBastille railed against bureaucracy and patriarchy to become a powerfu...

2. 

   13 Aug 2026

   Marina Richie - Feathered Forest

   In Marina Richie's Feathered Forest, birds are our guides to a vertical world of ancient trees that spans both sides of the Cascade Mountains. Within centuries-old groves that are critical refugia in a time of climate crisis, these winged messengers show us a better way to steward our threatened landscapes. Just as a forest transitions upward from understory to midstory to overstory, so too does the trajectory of Richie’s life—from the protective cover of adolescence to the precarious yet lig...

3. 

   16 Jul 2026

   Wenfei Tong - Bird Love

   Wenfei Tong's Bird Love looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks. It delves into the reasons why some species, such as the wattled jacana, rely on males to do all the childcare, while others, such as cuckoos and honeyguides, dump their eggs in the nests of others to raise. For some birds, reciprocal promiscuity pays off: both male and female dunnocks will rear the most...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

22

Social presence

94

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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