Adé Ben-Salahuddin

Aug 20, 2024 | allaboutbirds.org | Adé Ben-Salahuddin

A gentle northward breeze blew off Long Island Sound, cooling the morning air in the amphitheater of Seaside Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Out beyond the pond, people started to filter in past foraging starlings and grackles. As they entered the park, they walked under the massive communal nests of our local Monk Parakeets.

Oct 16, 2023 | birdnote.org | Rick Wright |Ellen Blackstone |Adé Ben-Salahuddin

BirdNote®Preserving John EdmonstoneWritten by Adé Ben-SalahuddinThis is BirdNote. Scotland may not be a place that comes to mind when you think of Black history. But in the early 1800s, a talented Black taxidermist made a name for himself in the developing zoology scene around Edinburgh, one specimen at a time.     [Guyana soundscape]John Edmonstone was born on a timber plantation in British Guiana, and enslaved by Scotsman Charles Edmonstone.

Jul 21, 2023 | birdnote.org | Ellen Blackstone |Adam Sedgley |Adé Ben-Salahuddin

BirdNote®Architecture for AviansWritten by Adé Ben-SalahuddinThis is BirdNote. During her first year at the Yale School of Architecture, Kenyan graduate student Barbara Nasila was tasked to design a hypothetical outdoor pavilion in a local neighborhood called Dixwell, with an original copy of the enslaver John James Audubon’s book, The Birds of America, as its centerpiece. It’s a book so large that its pages are only turned once a year.

Feb 28, 2023 | birdnote.org | Gregg Thompson |Adé Ben-Salahuddin

BirdNote®Dreading the TernsWritten by Adé Ben-SalahuddinThis is BirdNote.     [Common Tern calls]I’m Adé Ben-Salahuddin, and in June of 2022, I worked as a volunteer research assistant on a tiny island off the coast of Maine with the National Audubon Seabird Institute. This was during peak hatch, the busiest time of year at these breeding colonies. Common Terns are the predominant species here, and thousands of them were emerging from their eggs. It’s a very noisy place.

Feb 20, 2023 | birdnote.org | Adé Ben-Salahuddin

BirdNote®Annakacygna – The Ultimate BirdWritten by Adé Ben-SalahuddinThis is BirdNote. [Whooper Swan flight call]Swans like this Whooper Swan are impressive animals. They’re among the largest flying birds around today. But 11.5 million years ago, two extinct species from Japan took an even more epic direction.     [Open sea soundscape]Like today’s swans, Annakacygna hajimei and Annakacygna yoshiiensis were quite large.