# american birds (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover american birds. Page: Feed: --- ## [Birds and Freedom](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/birds-and-freedom) _2026-06-19 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Enslaved men and women in America’s South developed their own ornithology. To them, birds meant forced labor. But they also meant food, opportunity, and sometimes even freedom. ## [Sparrowmania](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/sparrowmania) _2026-06-09 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ The House Sparrow Was the Bird America Asked For—and Maybe the One It Deserved ## [The 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-100-greatest-bird-names-of-all) _2026-05-20 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Making this list was the hardest thing I’ve ever done ## [The Tragic Tale of Woodcock Dick](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-tragic-tale-of-woodcock-dick) _2026-04-29 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ New York’s first celebrity woodcock ## [More than the latest "It Bird"](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/more-than-the-latest-it-bird) _2026-04-15 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ New to woodcocks? Sit down. They’ve been famous for centuries. ## [The Ornithologist in the White City](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-ornithologist-in-the-white-city) _2026-04-02 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Birding at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair ## [Audubon at Carnival: Party Like It’s 1873](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/audubon-at-carnival-party-like-its) _2026-02-17 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Birds took over New Orleans in the middle of the state’s worst political crisis ## [How About A Game Dinner?](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/how-about-a-game-dinner) _2026-02-05 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Nothing is more American than sitting down to a meal with seventy of your favorite wild animals. ## [We’re Not Sending Our Best](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/were-not-sending-our-best) _2026-01-14 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Americans have strong feelings about foreign birds naturalized in the U.S. It turns out we’ve also sent our fair share overseas. ## [American Birds Abroad](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/american-birds-abroad) _2025-12-17 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ To Europeans, America’s cardinals and mockingbirds were plenty exotic—and they couldn’t get enough of them. ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/m0vSrnYfnlIe) _2025-12-17 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [Republic of Feathers](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/republic-of-feathers) _2025-11-24 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ I’m writing a book! ## [Bird City](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/bird-city) _2025-11-11 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ New York City Can’t Live With Its Birds, And It Can’t Live Without Them ## [Dying Birds and the March of Civilization](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/dying-birds-and-the-march-of-civilization) _2025-10-28 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Fearing extinction at the turn of the century ## [Two Years of Birds](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/two-years-of-birds) _2025-10-07 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Some stats, highlights, and lessons after 50 posts at Bird History ## [Chunk Ducks, Blatherskites, Butterballs, and Slug-toots](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/chunk-ducks-blatherskites-butterballs) _2025-09-18 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ These used to be folk names for American birds. Where did they all go? ## [Field Notes: Parrots Gone Wild](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/field-notes-parrots-gone-wild) _2025-09-11 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Six Fairy Penguins, bird import metrics, disappearing budgies, and luxury cockatoos. ## [Parrots Gone Wild](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/parrots-gone-wild) _2025-09-04 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ A global trade in exotic pets brought millions of foreign birds to America. Some of them had other plans. ## [Home On The Range](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/home-on-the-range) _2025-08-19 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Ring-necked Pheasants and their uncomfortable place in South Dakota ## [Welcome to America, Please Try Not to Die](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/welcome-to-america-please-try-not) _2025-08-05 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Inside the government’s twenty-year campaign to import the world’s most huntable birds ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Kw6ZzR5yg9GW) _2025-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Field Notes: The Crucible on Laysan Island](https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/field-notes-the-crucible-on-laysan) _2025-07-23 · Robert Francis · Bird History_ Laysan Rails, friendly albatrosses, deadly cisterns, and conservation proposals a century before their time.