Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why flamingos are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘Creature Feature’ podcast (iHeartRadio)
- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- native-land.ca
- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
- “Finding Lenapehoking” (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- The New Encyclopedia of Birds, edited by Christopher Perrins, published by Oxford University Press
- National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition, edited by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer
- Andean Flamingo (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Chilean Flamingo (San Francisco Zoo & Gardens)
- James’s Flamingo (American Bird Conservancy)
- Sympatry in Nature: When Species Share the Same Space (Birdorable.com)
- Greater Flamingo (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- As the lakes that flamingos inhabit expand, the birds’ food supplies are rapidly shrinking (Science)
- Why Are Flamingos Pink? And Other Flamingo Facts (Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute)
- American flamingo (Galapagos Conservation Trust)
- Caribbean Flamingo (Columbus Zoo and Aquarium)
- Q&A: Flamingo Flight Explained (American Bird Conservancy)
- ‘A double-edged sword’: Mumbai pollution ‘perfect’ for flamingos (The Guardian)
- 7 Strange Ways Animals Beat the Heat (Discover Magazine)
- Bolivia Plans to Mine the Salar de Uyuni for Lithium (JStor Daily)
- How Do Birds Handle the Heat? (Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute)
- Tragic Loss of Animal Life at Smithsonian’s National Zoo (Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute)
- The Story Behind the Most Famous Photo from Hurricane Andrew (Atlas Obscura)
- Don’t worry, the flamingos at Busch Gardens are safe from Hurricane Irma (The Daily Dot)
- Feeding Flamingos Create Underwater Tornado-Like Vortices to Capture Their Prey, Study Finds (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Flamingos create precise water vortices in a shrimp-hunting frenzy (ScienceNews.org)
- Does erectile dysfunction cause starvation (in flamingos)? (Ars Technica)
- Why flamingo milk is pink (Popular Science)
- SciShow: “The Unbelievably Tough Animals of Lake Natron” (YouTube)
- Smithsonian Channel: “Flamingos Have Their Own Version of a Daycare Center” (YouTube)
- Wilson’s Phalarope (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
- Neuromechanics of flamingos’ amazing feats of balance (The Conversation)
- Scientists Pinpoint How A Flamingo Balances On One Leg (NPR)
- SciShow: “Why Do Flamingos Stand on One Leg?” (YouTube)
- Cuban Phoenicopteriformes (New Hampshire Public Television)
- The Centuries-Old Mystery of How Florida Got Its Flamingos (Atlas Obscura)
- Why the Passenger Pigeon Went Extinct (Audubon.org)
- Flamingo foster fathers hatch an egg together at the San Diego zoo (The Guardian)
- Pair of Chilean male flamingos hatch egg at Devon zoo (The Guardian)
- What Do Flamingos Do at Night? (Atlas Obscura)
- Disney Fandom Wikia entry for Yo Yo Flamingo
- The American Presidency Project — Theodore Roosevelt — Address at the Sorbonne in Paris, France: “Citizenship in a Republic” (University Of California Santa Barbara) — this is the speech Alex mentions near the end of the episode.
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Batteries
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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