Episode 42: Strictly for the Birds

Come fly with us in celebration of our feathered friends the birds with special guests, poems, bird calls, music, humor, and parody that is strictly for the birds.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer—
it sings because it has a song.
— Ancient Chinese Proverb
Illustration of wrens

Wrens

Secretive little songbirds with a loud voice.

Plate XXXI from the Illustrations of the American ornithology of Alexander Wilson and Charles Lucian Bonaparte that includes the Winter Wren, Marsh Wren, House Wren, Carolina Wren, and Bewick's Wren.

Edinburgh, Frazer & Co, 1835

Public Domain
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Bonus Bird Video!