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Episode 6:  Forking with Spoonbills (Roseate Spoonbill)
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Episode 6: Forking with Spoonbills (Roseate Spoonbill)

We're recording in the Everglades! Love birds Hannah and Zack join me to talk about the Roseate S...

Dirty Bird Podcast · Dirty Bird

March 20, 202052m 29sExplicit

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Show Notes

We're recording in the Everglades! Love birds Hannah and Zack join me to talk about the Roseate Spoonbill. Learn why they are pink and how that made them a target during the plume wars of the early 1900s which almost led to their extinction. Plus, the amazing story of Guy Bradley.

Co-hosts: Hannah St. Mary, registered nurse, Zack Poelker PT student and birder buddy

Intro Music: Ricky Pistone aka Dick Piston, Outro Music: Sidewalk Slammers

Picture by Allen Brooks from "The Book of Birds, copyright by National Geographic Society 1937

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