The Mystery Of The Missing Martins | Field Trip! | SKUNK BEAR
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- When half a million songbirds that owe their lives to humans didn't show up at their usual roosting spot, I went looking for them.
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You deserve more subs! You have amazing quality, amazing music, and you’re voice is so calm and you’re a scientist witch is pretty cool! :D
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He deserves more Sandwiches
Simply amazing. Wonderfully done.
These field trip videos are officially awesome
As usual an impressive episode!! Informative, entertaining, and raising awareness of human effects on nature- and I the most positive and humorous light possible. Genius.
My uncle has a ton of these for the martins. There's no mosquitoes to be found when they're around because they eat them all. It's pretty amazing.
These videos are pure genius. The music, the humor, the adventure....so fantastically clever!!!
These videos are so well done! You guys deserve more subscribers!
@2:17 that alone deserves a LIKE.
Wow that was great I think next year I am going to take a trip down that way to see em. That area is only like 3maybe 4 hours from me
Its so frustrating, the european invaive plants and animals in america, while my job is litteraly managing invasive plants in the forrest in the netherlands. A lot of american plant stuff, our insects have no use for (yet) Life will find a way to adapt, but us humans are changing the world too fast for some life to keep up.
Brilliantly done, elegant, beautiful and perfect. What a piece of awe... full of hope and magic. Please more!
beautiful video.
In September here in VA across the street there was a hole flock of purple martins!!
It's strange to think, if humans went extinct the purple martins would also go extinct.
Lol he's cute, packed his lunch...
so that could be who our annual visitors are! (the large gathering before they leave, I mean. I've missed them the past few years because of college but they still come around.
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Please make more field trips videos
I want to know more about these purple birdies.
Great video, great story. Fantastic cinematography & graphics. Just a wonderful job.
People KNOCK DOWN the houses they try to build under eves troughs. PLUS, these birds gravitate to Farm buildings where modern ppl knock down the nests as well.
Our house sparrow population crashed :( give them back, and we give you all the Solidago gigantea back. Those are everywhere, suffocating our native flora.
Also the American starling population is that inbred? O.o
i see the purple martens every year at this same island
I love them too . Lost my colony years ago 😪😪😪
Would love to start again . There's some houses in the area . 75 can't wait much longer
I miss the Martens. I grew up with the Martens. We even had gas stations named for the martens when I was growing up in Milwaukee. This breaks my heart. I sure do miss those days. 😣
what is the relationship between Martin the bird and Marten the mammal?
Zvb
I really enjoyed this video. Good work
NPR's Skunk Bear said: (3:50) _Starlings will violently compete for [those] natural cavities where the purple martins used to nest. So, even if those purple martins wanted to return to nature; they couldn't._
Wait. I don't get it. Why can't they "return to nature"?
overtoke But, are humans not part of nature? I am struggling to understand what the narrator meant by the term nature with regard to the starlings and bird-housing made by humans.
^^ textbook example of willful ignorance
Tim Wolfe
A few options you could have taken:
Address the topic
Add further questioning
Ignore the subthread
Instead, your choice is to insult others.
Which textbook example is that again?
They can't return to nature because the starlings are bigger and more aggressive. The martins would be out-competed and driven away from the natural nesting sites.
Kill Starlings. Save Martins.
I loved this!
I see does all the time in dallas
in Philippines zamboanga city there is so manny martins i have a martins there beak are so long and we have some a baby martins i now everyting about martins martins are intelligent birds they can fly about 50 miles and they have small eggs and they breed at hot Season so the eggs are fertilize easily
Love Purple Martin’s, and this was heart warming .
100 starlings x 100 years = 200 000 000 starlings
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What is the general area where this video is located? I've spotted at least couple purple martins in western New York during mid June this year. As far as my research has gone, this is an unusual phenomenon at this time of year. These birds are beautiful and very quick
Edit** by area I intend to mean the general characteristics of their ecological environment
I hate Shakespeare now because he mention starlings make them ectinct
When I was little my family called these birds the “salt and pepper” birds, because they were so tiny and flew in such large groups! 😊
How on Earth could you do a story about the Purple Martin being dependent on man for housing but not mention Trio Manufacturing or the Nature House? Seems odd, to me. There's a town in Illinois that has a tower of purple martin houses, and a three story depiction of "America's Most Wanted Bird" on the town square, where the only factory in town manufactured purple martin houses. Seems like that should have been mentioned.
+UprightWalkingMan WHAT?
im not crying when confronted with the beauty of nature on this silly kids show. what do you take me for, some kind of sissy?
???? this video was awesome and this isn't just a silly kids show
fred bitzaya Poe's law is a funny thing huh?
It's not just a kids show
Fantastic
DUDE, NPR rap to actually working for NPR?
thats awesome!
Lovely video
Beautiful video. Thanks for uploading.
6:51
so much birds, that is awesome
hey skunk i see your videos but can you invite me in one of your videos im aaliyah im 11 yrs old i love birds chek your channel somtimes so that we can chat i would love to go anywhere (i never travelled out of here, pssst i only lived in malta nowhere else so invite plss i loveeee nature bye
from aaliyah
Wow !