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At least once a week, I’ll bring you the very best of America’s spectacular world of nature — from birds to mammals, to reptiles and amphibians. From soaring mountains to endless plains, from rugged coastlines to rivers and streams. Each episode will feature an expert guest — a ranger, a researcher, a birder, or an adventurer — someone who has seen what we want to see and been where we want to go.
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- 1 weeks ago39 min
E84 Lynne Trulio – Burrowing Owls: Underground Homes, Rattlesnake Tricks & the Fight to Survive 🦉
Send us Fan Mail What kind of owl lives underground, shares its neighborhood with ground squirrels, and teaches its chicks to sound like rattlesnakes? Meet the Burrowing Owl, one of North America's most unusual and fascinating birds of prey. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris welcomes wildlife biologist and longtime Burrowing Owl researcher Lynne Trulio, whose fascination with these remarkable little raptors began while studying California ground squirrels at UC Davis. What star...
- 2 weeks ago22 min
E83 Naturally Scott Adventures – Purple Martins: A Million Birds on Bomb Island 🐦🌅
Send us Fan Mail Imagine a tiny, 12-acre island in the middle of a South Carolina lake. Now imagine one million birds gathering there to spend the night. Welcome to Bomb Island. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott Harris takes us to Lake Murray, South Carolina, home to one of North America's most extraordinary bird spectacles: the annual gathering of Purple Martins before their migration to South America. Every summer, hundreds of thousands of these beautiful swallows converg...
- 3 weeks ago38 min
E82 Sy Montgomery – Giant Manta Rays: Saving the Angels of the Sea 🌊
Send us Fan Mail Imagine being 100 feet beneath the ocean's surface, clinging to rocks as a powerful current threatens to sweep you away. Visibility is poor, the water is cold, and suddenly an enormous shadow emerges from the murk. An oceanic manta ray, with a wingspan approaching 20 feet, glides overhead. Then it turns, looks directly into your eyes, and circles back. For bestselling author Sy Montgomery, that encounter was unforgettable. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris welc...
- 4 weeks ago24 min
E81 Naturally Scott Adventures – Elephant Seals: 6,000-Pound Giants of the California Coast 🦭🌊
Send us Fan Mail Imagine standing just a few feet from a 6,000-pound marine mammal—three tons of muscle, blubber, and attitude. Now imagine watching two of these giants battle for control of a California beach. Welcome to the world of Northern Elephant Seals. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott Harris travels to Piedras Blancas, just north of San Simeon along California’s spectacular Highway 1, to experience one of the most remarkable—and accessible—wildlife spectacles in Nor...
- Oct 1, 202631 min
E80 John Squires – Canada Lynx, Wolverines & a Lifetime in the Wild
Send us Fan Mail Title E80 John Squires – Canada Lynx, Wolverines & a Lifetime in the Wild Buzzsprout Description Canada Lynx and wolverines are two of North America’s most elusive mammals. Most of us will never see either one in the wild. John Squires has spent decades following both. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with John, a research wildlife biologist with the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station, whose career has taken him deep into the snowy ...
- Sep 24, 202625 min
E79 Naturally Scott Adventures – Sandhill Cranes: A Million Birds on the Platte
Send us Fan Mail Every March, one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in North America takes place along a relatively short stretch of Nebraska’s Platte River. Roughly a million Sandhill Cranes migrate north each spring, and an estimated 80 percent of them funnel through the Platte—a remarkable migration bottleneck where enormous numbers of these ancient birds gather to rest and refuel before continuing toward their breeding grounds. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott ...
- Sep 17, 202636 min
E78 Jane Rodgers – Joshua Tree: Protecting a Desert in a Changing World 🌵🏜️
Send us Fan Mail Joshua Tree National Park sits at the meeting point of two deserts, welcomes roughly three million visitors a year, and protects a landscape filled with Joshua trees, desert bighorn sheep, mountain lions, tortoises, bats—and some of the darkest skies within reach of Southern California. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with Jane Rodgers, superintendent of Joshua Tree National Park, to talk about what it takes to protect one of America’s most recogniz...
- Sep 10, 202621 min
E77 Naturally Scott Adventures – Wild Burros of Oatman: Where Burros Rule Route 66 🫏🏜️
Send us Fan Mail Along historic Route 66 in the Arizona desert sits the tiny town of Oatman—a former gold-mining community where the most famous residents have four legs. In this edition of Naturally Scott Adventures, Scott Harris visits the wild burros of Oatman, Arizona, descendants of the animals that once worked the region’s mines. When mining faded, the burros were left behind. They adapted to the brutal desert, survived, and generations later still roam the Black Mountains. But Oatman’s...
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At least once a week, I’ll bring you the very best of America’s spectacular world of nature — from birds to mammals, to reptiles and amphibians. From soaring mountains to endless plains, from rugged coastlines to rivers and streams. Each episode will feature an expert guest — a ranger, a researcher, a birder, or an adventurer — someone who has seen what we want to see and been where we want to go.
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