BirdNote; Celebrate the Earth
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BirdNote®
Celebrate the Earth on Earth Day
Written by Chris Peterson
This is BirdNote!
[Western Meadowlark in Pipestone Canyon, WA]
Earth Day! Celebrate the earth by riding the winds of spring ... from a canyon in the West, where Western Meadowlarks sing [Western Meadowlark]
Mourning Doves call.
[calls of Mourning Doves]
Black-billed Magpies chatter…[Black-billed Magpies]…
… to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota…. where a pair of Common Loons returns to breed and raise their young, Spring Peepers sing for mates …[Boundary Waters, MN]
… to an old-growth hardwood forest in North Carolina… where warblers and vireos sing and woodpeckers drum … [Joyce Kilmer Memorial Grove, NC]
When choosing a planet, we all made a very good choice.
Sounds were recorded by Gordon Hempton. You’ll find a link to his work at BirdNote.org. Today’s show brought to you by the Lufkin Family Foundation.
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All locations recorded by Gordon Hempton of soundtracker.com.
Mourning Dove [22930] recorded by William Fish; Call of Black-billed Magpie provided by The Macaulay Library at Cornell Lab of Ornithology recorded by R.S. Little.
BirdNote's theme music was composed and played by Nancy Rumbel and John Kessler.
Producer: John Kessler
Executive Producer: Chris Peterson
© 2015 Tune In to Nature.org April 2015 Narrator: Michael Stein
ID# SotB-earthday-01-2011-04-22 SotB-earthday-01b
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- BirdNote
- Episode
- Celebrate the Earth
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- BirdNote
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- BirdNote (Seattle, Washington)
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- Celebrate the earth -- from a canyon in the West, where meadowlarks sing - to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota, where a pair of Common Loons returns to breed and raise their young and spring peepers sing for mates - to an old-growth hardwood forest in North Carolina, where warblers and vireos sing and woodpeckers drum. The soundscapes featured in today's show were recorded by Gordon Hempton and provided courtesy of QuietPlanet.com.
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- 2015-04-22
- Asset type
- Episode
- Topics
- Science
- Subjects
- Birds
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- Sounds for BirdNote stories were provided by the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Xeno-Canto, Martyn Stewart, Chris Peterson, John Kessler, and others. Where music was used, fair use was taken into consideration. Individual credits are found at the bottom of each transcript.
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- Sound
- Duration
- 00:01:45.195
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Producing Organization: BirdNote
Writer: Peterson, Chris
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- Citations
- Chicago: “BirdNote; Celebrate the Earth,” 2015-04-22, BirdNote, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed August 7, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-1085b344a04.
- MLA: “BirdNote; Celebrate the Earth.” 2015-04-22. BirdNote, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. August 7, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-1085b344a04>.
- APA: BirdNote; Celebrate the Earth. Boston, MA: BirdNote, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-1085b344a04