A favorite desert birding spot succombs to dryness, at least for now.

Episode 195 Dryness

unreleased untitled ambient track from archive

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Listen back to our 2025 Heritage Week lecture by Emma Murphy, curator at the National Museum of Ireland – Natural History. Learn about R. J. Ussher MRIA, 1841-1913, and his connections to the National Museum, including a large collection of archived correspondence from Ussher to the curators and the hundreds of specimen donations that Ussher gave personally, or were given by his associates due to his encouragement.

Richard John Ussher MRIA, 1841-1913, was a speleologist, ornithologist, and renowned Irish naturalist. He published lists of Irish birds, showing the species contained in the National Collection. These, alongside “The Birds of Ireland” (1900), co-authored with Warren, were important works in the history of Irish ornithology. He donated his archive collection to the Royal Irish Academy, and many specimens to the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History.

Emma Murphy, Curator of Terrestrial Zoology at NMI – Natural History gave this lecture, exploring some of the stories, both funny and tragic, that can be found within Ussher’s collections, and highlighting his enduring scientific legacy.

This lecture was part of an programme of events relating to the Ussher Birds Notes collection, held in RIA Library. In 2024, the Library received funding from the Heritage Council as part of the Heritage Stewardship Fund for a project entitled, ‘The Birds of Ireland: Curating the Richard J. Ussher Collection at the Royal Irish Academy’. This project aimed to secure the long-term preservation, access, and discovery of material from the Ussher Bird Notes Collection through a programme of archival cataloguing, digitisation and outreach. The Ussher Bird Notes Digital Archive was launched in May 2025, and included digital images, with accompanying metadata, of 900 selected items from the collection. Detailed cataloguing of over 9000 items from the collection was also completed and researchers can contact library@ria.ie for more information about this listing. 

Thanks to a second tranche of funding from the Heritage Stewardship Fund, granted in 2025, the remainder of the Ussher Bird Notes Collection will be catalogued and more material will be added to the digital archive in due course.

A Naturalist’s Record: Stories from the Collections of R. J. Ussher

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Exotic Birds: Authentic Tropical Avian Atmospheres delivers the distinctive songs, calls, and choruses of exotic tropical birds with minimal background interference. These pristine recordings enable precise control over tropical environments, allowing for high scene immersion and creating vibrant paradise settings, mysterious jungle moods, or dynamic wildlife atmospheres.

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Another track born from Bleed Electric’s unreleased concept album The Butterfly Effect, “Birds As High As Planes” captured the moment when the rear-view blue lights come on and the protagonist realizes there’s no turning back. Reimagined here by Sven Erler, the remix flips the original into a high-energy drum & bass cut — amplifying the tension, urgency, and inevitability of the chase. An awesome reinterpretation that closes out Bleed Electric’s debut EP with a rush of adrenaline and a taste of chaos.

IV Birds As High As Planes [Sven Erler Remix]

Arthur Blank, a successful businessman, is the co-founder of Atlanta-based Home Depot, and is the current owner of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC.

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