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<title>Natural Selections: Nitrogen</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 13, 2013) Our atmosphere is about 80 percent nitrogen. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager explore the ways this common element and necessary component of all life forms interacts with the biosphere. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22166/20130613/natural-selections-nitrogen">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
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<title>Natural Selections: Cliff swallow adaptation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 6, 2013) Researchers have found that variations in the wingspan of cliff swallows has a measurable impact on their survival in a human-dominated environment. In this week&apos;s Natural Selections, Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley discuss how cliff swallows living in a high traffic area have adapted to survive the conditions. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22129/20130606/natural-selections-cliff-swallow-adaptation">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Donna Naughton on &quot;The Natural History of Canadian Mammals&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Jun 5, 2013) Donna Naughton has been fascinated by nature and natural science all her life. She landed a job at the Canadian Museum of Natural Science almost by accident, while on a field trip tour as an undergraduate. Her book The Natural History of Canadian Mammals was published in 2012 to high praise as a new standard for this topic.Now retired, Naughton recently realized a long-time dream by moving to an island in the Rideau River, near Kemptville, Ontario -  brimming with trees, birds and animals. Lucy Martin discussed the 10-year book project with Naughton on a Barnes Island nature walk in late May. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22110/20130605/donna-naughton-on-quot-the-natural-history-of-canadian-mammals-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Bumblebees and &quot;flower power&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 30, 2013) Static electricity plays a role in getting pollen to come loose from the blossom and to stick to the pollinator. According to a recent study using petunias and bumblebees, British researchers observed that the flowers increase their electrical charge in response to the presence of pollinating insects. The charge peaks in intensity just before the potential pollinator begins feeding on nectar, and decreases after they go away. Martha Foley and naturalist Curt Stager discuss this unique example of &quot;flower power.&quot; [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22081/20130530/natural-selections-bumblebees-and-quot-flower-power-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Crown Point bird banders track migratory species</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 29, 2013) An historic documentation of bird migrations at an historic North Country site has come to a close for the season. For almost four decades, the Crown Point Bird Banding Association has been documenting the spring migration at the Crown Point Historic Site.Established by Mike Peterson, bird banders have recorded and banded 17,374 birds of 106 species since 1976. He&apos;s been helped for most of those years by retired NYS Forest Ranger, Gary Lee. Listen to our Heard Up North of Lee banding during the winter at his home in Inlet. The banding takes place during the month of May.This year, licensed master bander Gordon Howard, Professor Emeritus of Clemson University in South Carolina, led the effort. NCPR photographer Mark Kurtz was there. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22073/20130529/crown-point-bird-banders-track-migratory-species">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Flowers, bees... and caffeine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (May 23, 2013) Plants have many strategies for manipulating animals to do their bidding. Some flowers focus the attention of their pollinators with a familiar pick-me-up—caffeine. Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss the natural world. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/22042/20130523/natural-selections-flowers-bees-and-caffeine">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Passenger Pigeons</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 25, 2013) Once so numerous they darkened the sky for days while migrating, passenger pigeons arrived in this region in early May each year. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley remember this once ubiquitous species wiped out by human hunting in the nineteenth century. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/3060/20130425/natural-selections-passenger-pigeons">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Unusual pollinators</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 18, 2013) Everyone is familiar with how bees and insects distribute pollen from one flower to another, but that&apos;s not the only way to get the job done. Some night-blooming plants are pollinated by bats, when bright floral colors are invisible. And hummingbirds might just get their nectar without picking up any pollen. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley discuss the unusual strategies some plants can use to attract and hold the interest of the unusual animals that pollinate them. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21820/20130418/natural-selections-unusual-pollinators">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Natural Selections: Leaf Cutter Ants</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 11, 2013) Why do Leaf Cutter Ants cut leaves? Nesting material, food? As Martha Foley and Curt Stager explain, these ants are composting. What they actually eat grows on the rotting leaves. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/13502/20130411/natural-selections-leaf-cutter-ants">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Cornell project uses artificial intelligence to ID birds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Apr 11, 2013) More than one in five Americans engage in bird watching. Now, researchers at Cornell University are making it easier to identify different species with an artificial intelligence program called Merlin. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/21782/20130411/cornell-project-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-id-birds">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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