Terri Gross interviews Kroodsma and Stap on Fresh Air

[Rick Soulier <soulierr at netutah dot net>]

To those birders who can listen to streaming audio on their computers:

this  program from National Public Radio discusses bird song

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4672306     this 
URL should take you to NPR Fresh Air  30 May 2005

NPR Fresh Air from WHYY FM Radio Philadelphia 
<http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13>, May 30, 
2005 ·  

Terri Gross interviews two experts on bird songs.  The interviews 
feature extraordinary recordings of bird songs, plus commentaries from 
Ms Gross and the experts.


Writer Donald Kroodsma is a renowned specialist in the interpretation of 
bird songs, and author of The Singing Life of Birds: the art and science 
of listening to bird song [complete with CD of bird songs]. He describes 
how birds communicate and why.

Don Stap's book Birdsong:  a natural history is an account of the work 
of Kroodsma and others in the lab and in the field.

Originally broadcast March 29, 2005  Broadcast again on 30 May 2005.


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