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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 ago31 min
E62 Jessica Ware – Dragonflies, Ancient Flight & the Secret World of Insects! 🪰🌎
Send us Fan Mail Dragonflies are older than dinosaurs, can migrate across oceans, and spend most of their lives underwater. In this fascinating and surprisingly fun episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with entomologist and evolutionary biologist Jessica Ware of the American Museum of Natural History to explore the incredible world of dragonflies, damselflies, insect evolution, and why insects deserve far more attention than they get. Jessica explains how dragonflies were among ...
- 2 weeks ago26 min
E61 Naturally Scott Adventures – One Million Snow Geese! 🕊️❄️
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the very first edition of Naturally Scott Adventures — a new series where Scott Harris takes you directly into the field to experience some of nature’s greatest spectacles, species, and wild places. And for Episode 61, we begin with one of the most breathtaking wildlife gatherings on Earth: one million snow geese at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge. Each March, hundreds of thousands — and sometimes more than a million — snow geese converge on this Missouri ref...
- 3 weeks ago32 min
E60 Zach Steinhauser – One Million Purple Martins & South Carolina’s Greatest Wildlife SpectacleUntitled Episode
Send us Fan Mail What does it feel like to sit beneath a sky filled with a million birds? In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris is joined by naturalist, filmmaker, and Carolina Safari Co. founder Zach Steinhauser for a conversation about one of America’s most overlooked wildlife spectacles—the gathering of over a million Purple Martins at Bomb Island on South Carolina’s Lake Murray. Zach shares the remarkable story behind his documentary Purple Haze and explains how these tiny swal...
- 4 weeks ago1h 1m
E59 Matt Forister – Butterflies, Climate Change & the Hidden Crisis Facing Insects
Send us Fan Mail Butterflies are beautiful. They are also disappearing. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with University of Nevada, Reno biology professor Matt Forister for a fascinating and surprisingly urgent conversation about butterflies, insect declines, climate change, pesticides, and why these tiny creatures may tell us more about the health of our planet than almost anything else. Matt explains how a decades-long butterfly monitoring project in California rev...
- Apr 30, 20261h 3m
E58 Wade Crowfoot – Water, Wildfire & the Future of Conservation in California
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott Harris sits down with Wade Crowfoot, Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, for a wide-ranging conversation about conservation, climate challenges, and the future of one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Wade shares how a childhood spent outdoors in the Midwest shaped his path into public service, and how his work now spans everything from wildfire prevention and water management to protecting California’s vast na...
- Apr 23, 202649 min
E57 — Women in Birding: A Conversation with Sy Montgomery, Debi Shearwater & Lynn Scarlett 🐦
Send us Fan Mail This episode is a first for Naturally Scott — a panel conversation. Scott Harris brings together three remarkable voices — Sy Montgomery, Debi Shearwater, and Lynn Scarlett — for an honest, thoughtful discussion about the history of women in birding, how the experience has evolved, and where things stand today. Each brings a different perspective: science and storytelling, business and field leadership, and public policy and conservation. Together, they reflect on what it was...
- Apr 16, 202631 min
E56 Kimberly Kaufman — The Biggest Week in American Birding & the Magic of Migration 🐦🌎
Send us Fan Mail Every spring, billions of birds move across North America — and for a brief moment, one place becomes the center of it all. In this episode of Naturally Scott, Scott sits down with Kimberly Kaufman, Executive Director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, to explore The Biggest Week in American Birding — one of the most important and accessible birding events in the world. Held along the shores of Lake Erie in northwest Ohio, this 10-day festival brings together tens of thousa...
- Apr 9, 20261h 0m
E55 Denver Holt — Snowy Owls, Field Research & 35 Years on the Arctic Tundra! 🦉❄️
Send us Fan Mail Few people understand owls like Denver Holt. As the founder of the Owl Research Institute, Denver has spent nearly four decades studying owls in the wild — from long-eared owls in Montana to snowy owls on the Arctic tundra. In this episode, Denver joins Scott Harris to explore what it really means to be a “boots on the ground” field biologist. From cross-country skiing into remote nesting territories to enduring Arctic summers in Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska, his work is a test...
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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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