Search

Home > BirdNote > The Verdin’s Winter Roosts
Podcast: BirdNote
Episode:

The Verdin’s Winter Roosts

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:01:32
Publish Date: 2025-01-29 08:00:00
Description:

For small songbirds, surviving a cold winter night can be challenging. Their bodies lose heat faster than those of larger birds. So little birds have found resourceful ways to stay warm — like huddling close together with other birds. But the Verdin, a tiny bird of the Southwest, does something few other birds do to keep warm: it builds extra nests to roost in, in the winter.

More info and transcript at BirdNote.org

Want more BirdNote? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Sign up for BirdNote+ to get ad-free listening and other perks. 

BirdNote is a nonprofit. Your tax-deductible gift makes these shows possible.

 

Total Play: 0