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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.
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
Chris Peterson
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