Random Bird Thursday: A Tiny Island Dweller That Likes Vines
7/2/202610 min
In each Random Bird Thursday (RBT) episode, the goal is to highlight a bird species that probably isn't going to get featured in a full-length podcast episode. These are birds we might overlook, even though they certainly deserve some appreciation and attention.
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⚠️ SPOILER ALERT!
The featured species in this episode is the Rufous-sided Gerygone (Gerygone dorsalis).
Sound Citations:
Colin Trainor, XC138529. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/138529.
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsIvan Phillipson· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hello and welcome. This is The Science of Birds. I am your host, Ivan Phillipson. The Science of Birds podcast is a light-hearted exploration of bird biology for lifelong learners. And in case you hadn't noticed, it's Random Bird Thursday. [upbeat music] With over eleven thousand bird species in the world, Random Bird Thursday episodes give us a chance to celebrate some of them that we might otherwise overlook. We still don't know what species we're doing, so let's go ahead and push the random bird selector button to see which species we're talking about today. [machine roaring] [bird chirping] Okay, interesting. We have a little brown bird, the rufous-sided jeryginy, Jeryginy dorsalis. This is a bird from the islands of Indonesia, and there's a good chance that nobody listening right now has ever seen this bird, but, uh, that's why it's fun to talk about. We're vicariously exploring the world of birds together. [upbeat music] And let's get started.
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