Voice of the Community

Bird Calls with Cliff Shackelford for Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

Cliff Shackelford
Press Image

Airs Tuesday, September 8, 2020, at 6 p.m. Once again ornithologist Cliff Shackelford, from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, will be on hand to take your questions about all our feathered friends on "Bird Calls" from Red River Radio. If you have a photo or the recorded sound of a bird that you'd like Cliff to research and identify for the show, please send them to wbeckett@lsus.edu. We'll also post your photos and recorded sounds on our website after the show. Join us for Bird Calls and call in at 800-552-8502 with your questions.

Our Profile Species is the Red-crowned Parrot by James Childress
Credit James Childress / James Childress

red-crowned_parrot_by_paul_marvin_-_xc320571_web.mp3
Red-crowned Parrot - recorded by Paul Marvin

Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio

Ray Finger Submitted - On top of the Transformer making a lot of noise - Pileated Woodpecker
Credit Ray Finger / Red River Radio
Michellene Septer Submission - Pileated Woodpecker
Credit Michellene Septer / Red River Radio

Extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker, Chasing a Ghost - Texas Parks & Wildlife

Pileated -vs - Ivory Billed woodpeckers - IBW ID
Credit Texas Parks & Wildlife Department / Texas Parks & Wildlife Department/Used by Permission

James Gavin submitted - Great Crested Flycatcher
Credit James Gavin / Red River Radio

Sarah Evans submitted - Mississippi Kite
Credit Sarah Evans / Red River Radio

Roy Blake submission - Female Summer Tanager.
Credit Roy Blake / Red River Radio

Juli Ramsey Campbell submiited from near Waskom, Texas. - Black Vulture

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Email
Cliff Shackelford is a 7th generation Texan who began bird watching at the age of nine. He holds both a B.S. and an M.S. degree in biology from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches and has three decades of experience as a professional biologist. For over 2 decades Cliff was the statewide Non-game Ornithologist for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He is the author of over 90 publications on birds and birding and he authored the book Hummingbirds of Texas, published in 2005 by Texas A&M University Press. He has traveled extensively in the Western Hemisphere, having bird watched in 9 different Latin American countries. He and his wife Julie and their 2 young children live in East Texas.