Weekend Birder – Details, episodes & analysis

More birds, more stories, more reasons to look up. This is your glimpse of Season 3 and the birdwatching moments waiting for you.

Episode illustration: Superb Fairywren

🎧 Show notes and transcript - https://weekendbirder.com/podcast/

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🔊 Recordings by Marc Anderson are licenced from https://wildambience.com

🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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The best birdwatching stories are sometimes hiding close to home. Birdwatchers across Australia share moments from their Local Big Year and the birds they noticed in everyday places.

Episode illustration: Eastern Barn Owl

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🔊 Recordings by Marc Anderson are licenced from https://wildambience.com

🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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This small yellow bird has a bigger influence than you might expect. Dr Lana Austin shares the behaviour of Eastern Yellow Robins and the role they play in the forest around them.

Episode illustration: Eastern Yellow Robin

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🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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Some birds return to the same nest like it is part of who they are. Pip Grant-Taylor shares the story of the Eastern Osprey and the citizen science helping us understand it.

Episode illustration: Eastern Osprey

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🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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A great bird photo is often made long before the shutter clicks. Award-winning photographer Shelley Pearson shares how light, patience and birdwatching shape her photography.

Episode illustration: Banded Stilt

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🔊 Recordings by Marc Anderson are licenced from https://wildambience.com

🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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Birds have more in common with us than they first let on. Dr Gráinne Cleary shares the surprising world of feathers, eyelids, legs and bird biology.

Episode illustration: Galah

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🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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An 11-year-old birder can remind you what wonder sounds like. Luca shares his love of birds, East Gippsland and the species he hopes to see next.

Episode illustration: Buff-breasted Paradise Kingfisher

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🎵 Theme music is Swing Joyful Tune by Audiosphere

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Some Australian birds are painted so large you can spot them from the road. Artist Geoffrey Carran shares how birds inspire his silo murals, from Sacred Kingfishers to endangered species.

Episode illustration: Sacred Kingfisher

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Bird calls carry stories older than we can imagine. Dr Jack Pascoe shares connections between birds, First Peoples cultures and ecology, including the call of the Fan-tailed Cuckoo.

Episode illustration: Fan-tailed Cuckoo

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🔊 Recordings by Marc Anderson are licenced from https://wildambience.com

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A feather can change colour without changing colour at all. Artist Freia Noss shares the science of iridescence and her love of Australian ducks.

Episode illustration: Bronze-winged Pigeon

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