Laura Erickson's For the Birds
Hosted by Laura Erickson · Laura Erickson
4.9from 110 ratings
- 501
- Episodes
- 235
- Transcribed
- 110
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Laura Erickson's For the Birds
"For the Birds" began airing on KUMD in Duluth, MN, in May, 1986, and is the longest continually-running radio program about birds in the U.S. Hundreds more episodes are available for free at http://www.lauraerickson.com/radio/.
- Publisher
- Laura Erickson
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 23 Dec 2021
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
235 of 501 episodes have a transcript.
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Ginormous Bird Migration Day
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Ginormous Bird Migration Day
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It's truly astonishing to see so many birds streaming past, but they do it quietly, so most locals don't notice such a big migration event is even happening. During the 1980s, I was lucky enough to serve as one of the counters at what we called Dawn Dickie duty, enumerating the songbird migration from the Lakewood pumping station. We had a lot of superb counting days, but the biggest of all was Saturday, October 1st, 1988, when I happened to be the counter on duty. The last week of September that year was gloomy and wet, and a cold front moved in on Friday. When I headed up to the pumping station before dawn Saturday, the dark, overcast sky looked ominous. […]
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- 110 ratings
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