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Dumb Stupid Birds is a short daily podcast covering one bird per episode. Real ornithology, wildlife science, and natural history with no filler and no nonsense. Birds are among the most bizarre, resilient, and quietly astonishing animals on the planet, and almost none of what you think you know about them is the full story. You'll finish every episode looking at the sky differently. Subscribe now, and if a bird has ever made you feel something, leave a rating.
Unknown Host hosts Dumb Stupid Birds, a science show with 55 episodes published.
It is a cuckoo. It kills rattlesnakes by slamming them against the ground. Every morning it spreads its back feathers and lets the sun charge it like a battery. The Greater Roadrunner has been doing exactly this - runnin
The female is brightly colored. The female competes aggressively for mates. The female lays the eggs - then leaves, immediately, to find another male. The male incubates alone for twenty days, raises the chicks alone, an
The African Jacana weighs less than a lemon, has toes long enough to walk on lily pads, and carries up to four live chicks tucked under its wings during predator escapes - just eight tiny legs visible from the outside. T
The Eurasian wryneck is a woodpecker that cannot drill, will not excavate its own nest, and eats almost nothing but ants off the ground. Cornered, it twists its neck nearly half a turn and hisses like a snake. The ancien
The Clark's nutcracker buries between thirty thousand and a hundred thousand pine seeds every autumn, hauling them in a pouch under its tongue and remembering thousands of individual caches under deep snow for up to nine
The kiwi hunts by smell, the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak. It has whiskers, heavy marrow-filled bones, fur-like feathers, and two working ovaries. The female lays an egg up to 20 percent of its body wei
The ruff comes in three permanent kinds of male: one fights, one freeloads, and one disguises itself as a female to slip past both. Which one a ruff becomes is fixed before hatching, locked in a chunk of chromosome that
During breeding season, male standard-winged nightjars grow a single feather on each wing into a two-foot bare shaft with a flag on the end. In flight, the flags trail behind so precisely that one bird looks like three b
The Egyptian vulture is two feet tall, weighs about four pounds, and breaks open ostrich eggs by picking up rocks and throwing them. It also eats the dung of cows, sheep, and goats to absorb carotenoids that turn its fac
The common murre lays a single pear-shaped egg directly on bare rock, packs twenty birds per square meter, and at three weeks old encourages its flightless chick to step off a six-hundred-foot cliff. Survival rate above
The burrowing owl is nine inches tall, lives underground, hunts in broad daylight, and uses cow dung to bait dung beetles into a hole. When threatened, the chicks impersonate a western diamondback rattlesnake well enough
The superb bird-of-paradise is a forgettable black bird in New Guinea until it sweeps a stage, snaps into a hovering oval, and becomes a glowing face. Its feathers absorb up to 99.95 percent of light, a structural super-
The great bowerbird is a drab grey-brown crow relative that builds a stick avenue, then sorts thousands of bones and stones by size to bend depth, the same optical trick film crews use to cheat scale. A 2012 study in Sci
The malleefowl buries its eggs in a meter-tall mound of rotting leaves and sand, then holds it at exactly thirty-three degrees Celsius for weeks by probing the dirt with its beak like a living thermometer. It does this u
The marabou stork stands five feet tall, has a ten-foot wingspan tying with the Andean condor, a bald pink head, and a foot-long fleshy pouch dangling from its throat that it uses to flirt. It eats anything from rotting
The club-winged manakin is a twelve gram bird in the Andean cloud forest that produces sound by vibrating two specialized wing feathers against each other 107 times per second, like a cricket. It is the only known verteb
The southern cassowary stands five and a half feet tall in the rainforests of northeastern Australia, weighs one hundred thirty pounds, and carries a five-inch dagger on each foot. It communicates in twenty-three hertz i
The helmeted hornbill: three kilograms, solid keratin casque, hunted for red ivory at five times the price of elephant tusk. Adult birds joust mid-air at twenty kilometers per hour over fig trees. Six thousand killed in
Milvus migrans is a medium-sized raptor, about fifty centimeters long, six million strong across four continents, and it eats garbage for a living. In northern Australia, three raptor species including the black kite hav
The hoopoe wears a crown of cinnamon feathers tipped in black, appears in tomb art in ancient Egypt, in Aristotle, in the Bible, in the Quran, and tells everyone its name in three soft notes. It is also the national bird
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Dumb Stupid Birds is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under Science (nature) and has published 55 episodes.
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