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David Clapp
Naturalist and longtime Massachusetts Audubon leader who leads Smithsonian Journeys tours and is a recurring birding expert guest on Ray Brown's Talkin' Birds.
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May 17, 2026
#1,090 May 17, 2026
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2:13David ClappGUEST
The common birds outside the window every morning, yellow-breasted chat, hooded Kentucky, and warblers, white and red-eyed vireos, and indigo bunting.
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2:22David ClappGUEST
All the woodland stops as you go through the forest, and it's all forest, are the cerulean warbler and the summer tanager can almost always be heard and usually seen.
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3:00David ClappGUEST
... um, uh, Noah Stricker wrote an article on the least-birded counties, because eBird does everything by county.
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3:07David ClappGUEST
Um, the least-birded counties in the US, and 11 out of the top 30, I think it was 11 out of 30, are in Kentucky.
#1,024 Feb. 9, 2025
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15:43David ClappGUEST
The refuge has gotten larger in the past 20 years, but... reproduction has been injured the birds laid two eggs but usually only raise one young and they've been taking one egg from each of those extra nests and trying to raise them in captivity and that's kind of what boosted the population in the 80s and 90s um how it's going now i mean there's numbers people estimating that overall counting the little wisconsin population that started to take place that there might be as many as a thousand birds but it's More likely it's between...
Ray BrownHOST
I don't know if we really have time for this, but maybe you can give us a quick idea what that's