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TRACE ELEMENTS,
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Birds of a feather may flock together -- but they don't sing together if they live in the city. The din of city life is creating new divisions between bird species. We talk (and sing!) about why the Barry Whites of birds are slowly disappearing in San Francisco.
Engineer: Andrew Kramer
Theme Song: Rory Jackson
Additional Music: Kazuki Okubo, The U.S. Marine Corps Band, Isaac Hayes, and Trace Elements!
Bird calls: Lang Elliott, Kevin Colver and Elizabeth Derryberry
Additional sounds: KatiReh and the National Park Service
Special thanks: Don Goonan
This episode was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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About
Cristina Quinn is a radio and TV journalist. She got her on-air start in Japan, hosting "Let's English!" for FM-Aizu. Stateside, she's been WGBH's Weekend Edition anchor and became the station's first midday news anchor. Cristina has done in-depth reporting on innovations in science, technology, and social issues. Her stories air locally on WGBH radio and TV's Greater Boston, and have aired nationally on NPR News, PRI's The World, and Innovation Hub. She has a journalism degree from UMass Amherst and a master's in visual and media arts from Emerson College.
Alison Bruzek is a science writer and radio producer. Grown in the nation’s heartland, she has been known to occasionally reprise her Minnesotan accent. She is currently a freelance producer for WBUR in Boston. Prior to that, she worked as a video producer for WGBH. Before she came to radio, she developed science curriculum and science center programs with The HistoryMakers, an African American video oral history collection.
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