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Dumb Stupid Birds is a short daily podcast covering one bird per episode. Real ornithology, wildlife science, and natural history with no filler and no nonsense. Birds are among the most bizarre, resilient, and quietly astonishing animals on the planet, and almost none of what you think you know about them is the full story.
You'll finish every episode looking at the sky differently.
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S1E11 Hoatzin | Smells Like a Cow For a Reason | Dumb Stupid Birds #11
The hoatzin is a pheasant-sized Amazonian bird with a mohawk, no close living relatives, and the only foregut fermentation chamber ever evolved inside a bird. It ferments leaves in its throat like a…
S1E10 Kakapo | The Bird That Boomed Into a Hole | Dumb Stupid Birds #10
The kakapo is a four-kilogram flightless parrot that sits in a dirt bowl and shouts 60Hz bass notes into the dark for three months a year. It has been doing this, mostly unsuccessfully, for sixty…
Shoebill | It Was Here Before Us | Dumb Stupid Birds #9
The shoebill stands five feet tall in a Central African swamp, does not move for hours, and hunts by falling forward onto things. It is classified as Vulnerable. There are fewer than 5,300 left. It…
S1E8 Blue Jay | The Bird That Planted a Forest | Dumb Stupid Birds #8
The blue jay is loud, obnoxious, impersonates hawks for personal gain, and is not actually blue. It is also, incidentally, responsible for replanting the entire eastern deciduous forest of North…
Belted Kingfisher | Built Different | Dumb Stupid Birds #7
The belted kingfisher is top-heavy, ragingly territorial, named after a Greek myth, and the only bird in North America where the female is more colorful than the male. It nests inside a tunnel it…
Ostrich | Eyes Bigger Than Its Brain | Dumb Stupid Birds #6
The ostrich is the largest bird alive, the fastest two-legged animal on Earth, and the only bird whose eyes are literally bigger than its brain. It does not bury its head in the sand. What it…
S1E5 Greater Sage Grouse | The Most Dramatic Bird in America | Dumb Stupid Birds #5
The greater sage grouse is the largest grouse in North America, eats almost nothing but a single shrub, and every spring performs a dawn courtship ritual so elaborate it has its own name, its own…
S1E4 Greater Roadrunner | Lied To Your Whole Life | Dumb Stupid Birds #4
The greater roadrunner does not go beep beep, cannot outrun a coyote, and is not fast. What it can do is kill a rattlesnake with coordinated ambush tactics, survive a desert on almost no water, and…
Peregrine Falcon | The Fastest Thing Alive | Dumb Stupid Birds #3
The peregrine falcon: two hundred miles per hour, thirty-six ounces, extinct east of the Mississippi in 1965, nesting on your office building today. The greatest conservation comeback in the history…
American Woodcock | The Emperor of Bryant Park | Dumb Stupid Birds #2
The American woodcock is a round, leaf-colored forest bird with its ears on its face, currently shutting down Bryant Park with a dance that isn't actually a dance.
S1E1 Mallard Duck | The Bird That Ran the World | Dumb Stupid Birds #1
The mallard is the most successful waterfowl on Earth, ancestor of nearly every domestic duck alive, and the one bird that decided to colonize human civilization from the inside.
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Dumb Stupid Birds has published 11 episodes since April 2026, covering topics in Nature, Science.
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