Talkin' Birds
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
4.7from 206 ratings
- 422
- Episodes
- 129
- Transcribed
- 206
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 799
- YouTube views
About Talkin' Birds
Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds is a call-in show of entertaining conversation about wild birds -- attracting them to your back yard, identifying them, feeding them, and learning more about them along the way. Every week, we have contests for prizes like bird feeders and other great bird-related stuff, along with expert guests. So, whether you're an experienced birder, or you're new to birding, listen in, and be part of the show by calling in with a question, sharing some information or observations, or trying for one of our prizes. It's birdwatching--in the backyard and beyond.
- Publisher
- Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Oct 2018
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
129 of 422 episodes have a transcript.
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#1,110 Oct. 4, 2026
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They're still common, but they're on the point of tipping over the edge. And so they've been working for years on this. Started during the pandemic in 2020, there were a number of virtual conferences pulling together people from all across the country, both the U.S. and Canada, all across the continent, I should say, to to try to figure out where the knowledge gaps are, understand where the threats are for these birds, bringing together all of the new big data sets that we have, like eBird, like radar, like acoustic monitoring, to try to pinpoint where the problems are for these declining species of birds. […]
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- Scott Weidensaul
- Mike O’Connor
- Rosemary Mosco
- Johnathan Berard
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 799
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 189 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 17 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 90 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 66
- Engagement
- 96
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