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Podcast: BirdNote Daily
Episode: Spark Bird: Murry Burgess and the Painted Bunting
Description: Urban ornithologist and children’s author Murry Burgess has always been interested in wildlife. But she first felt a spark for birds on a college field trip to Dauphin Island, a beach town on the Gulf Coast of Alabama that’s a famous stop-over site for migratory birds. There, she saw a dazzling male Painted Bunting that amazed her both with his colorful plumage and incredible migration journey. Now Murry is a professor researching how urban environments impact birds, a children’s book author, and co-founder of the nonprofit Field Inclusive, which advocates for safety and diversity in the outdoo...