Songbirding
Let’s go birding by ear! Guided by naturalist and field recordist Rob Porter, the Songbirding podcast is an audio nature documentary, taking you on guided hikes while identifying the songs of dozens of North American songbird species. Entirely recorded in the field, you won’t hear any other podcast quite like this. Four-time nominated as Best Science Podcast in the Canadian Podcast Awards.
You can start with any episode in any season. Season 1: Bruce Peninsula, Ontario; 2-3: Southern Ontario; 4: Mid-western & Southern Ontario; 5: Johnston Harbour, Ontario; 6: Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania; 7: Kananaskis Country, Alberta (coming in 2026).
For those with high-frequency hearing loss, please search for “Songbirding Under 5kHz”.
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Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
Cover art by Lauren Helton - https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/
Support the show at https://songbirding.com/support
No “generative AI” is used in the production of Songbirding. Some machine learning tools such as Merlin Bird ID and BirdNET (which are sometimes marketed as “AI”-based) are used for birdsong identification and sorting of raw recordings to aid in the production process.
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Season 5 of Birding-by-ear Podcast "Songbirding" Premieres May 2, 2022 (May 2 2022)
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