Here is a selection of particularly interesting natural history and science podcast episodes for the week ending 6 June 2025.
Noteworthy Podcast Episodes (Week Ending 6 June 2025)
Birds
The Gull Guide: North America
Hopes are particularly high for Amar Ayyash’s new “The Gull Guide: North America” to be a book able to provide interested birders, birdwatchers, and naturalists alike with a meaningful new reference tool to the North American occurring, gull-denominated members of the Laridae family.
The Courage of Birds
When I first took up birdwatching in the mid 1990s (knowingly and intentionally, that is; I’d been watching them casually long before that) one of the first books I read on the subject in an effort to learn how to do it was Pete Dunne’s “The Feather Quest.”
On AI-generated Images of Birds
As one who has dedicated decades of his life to helping people learn about, understand, and as a result it is hoped care more about the natural world and the present state it is in, I am particularly troubled by AI-generated images of birds and other wildlife as they present the unreal as real, encouraging many of those seeing them and not understanding that they are nothing more than the random collection of data assembled into visual images by an AI image-generating computer program to develop a distorted expectation of how the natural world truly appears.