As little as six minutes of listening to bird song has been shown to reduce anxiety. No wonder an estimated 50 million people enjoy feeding feathered friends at a bird feeder. But who really benefits from feeding birds?

Something Wild: Are birdfeeders for the birds - or us?

Listening to as little as six minutes of bird song has been shown to reduce anxiety. No wonder an estimated 50 million people enjoy feeding feathered friends at a bird feeder. But who really benefits from feeding birds?

A phenomenon called "thermonasty" causes rhododendron leaves to curl up when it’s really cold out. This adaptation allows these broad-leaved evergreens to thrive in the doubly-challenging conditions of damp soil and freezing temperatures.

Something Wild: How cold is it? Check the rhododendron!

There's a reason you may never have found an antler in the woods, despite N.H.'s population of 100,000 deer (not to mention a few thousand moose). Shed antlers provide nutrients to a whole host of forest-dwellers who recognize their value.

Something Wild: How shed antlers benefit N.H.'s forests

The weather in New Hampshire’s White Mountains has, over millennia, created forests that are specifically suited to extreme weather conditions.

Something Wild: The fir wave phenomenon and other challenges in NH's White Mountains

Adaptations in many species in New Hampshire allows them to flourish in the cold winter temperatures. It’s also why you see more trees with light-colored bark the farther north you go.

Something Wild: How do their feet not freeze off?

The elusive yet bold spruce grouse is a little-known New Hampshire inhabitant that relies on forests that are specifically adapted to colder temperatures.

Something Wild: Is NH’s spruce grouse the most audacious of the gallinaceous?

'Tis the season for Christmas carols! Something Wild decided to rewrite the "12 Days of Christmas" and put the focus on New Hampshire birds.

Something Wild: The 12 Birds of Christmas - NH Style

The North American river otter population is doing swimmingly! They are found in abundance in New Hampshire’s waterways, but they can be hard to spot until winter brings them out to play on the ice and snow.

Something Wild: You Really Otter Know Better!

From unexpected sightings in backyard gardens to near-misses – or worse – on our roads, white-tailed deer seem to be everywhere. A decade-long study is uncovering new insights about this iconic creature of eastern forests.

Something Wild: How much do we really know about deer?

As part of Something Wild's 25th anniversary, we revisit one of our favorite episodes from 2020. Learning about where native bats roost in winter can help us protect the bat population in N.H.

Something Wild: New Hampshire’s Bat Habitats

This has been an epic season for finding mushrooms. We're just beginning to learn how important the fungi kingdom is for forest health.

Something Wild: Fungus among us

Autumn in New Hampshire is a wonderful time to watch and observe some easily recognizable stages of natural cycles. But we should note that there are varying degrees of “cyclical” activity that can be quite complicated.

Something Wild: Erratic Cycles

N.H.’s osprey population, in jeopardy forty years ago, now thrives. We talk about the key to the raptor’s success with a researcher who monitors the population, and find out how to identify an osprey as it migrates.

Something Wild: N.H.’s osprey success story

We don't often think of trees when we speak of harvest. But as a society, we consume forest products as much as we do farm products. And sometimes when a tree comes down, it's to make room for another tree.

Something Wild: A Timber Harvest

The sound of crickets invokes warm summer evenings; Nathanial Hawthorne called it "audible stillness." By listening closely to the cricket song, and doing some math, you can determine how warm it is!

Something Wild: The sound of summer

In our series about Mount Washington’s ecological zones, we explore the distinctly different forest zones on the flanks of Mt. Washington, and discover why birch trees shed their bark.

Something Wild: Why the treeline of Mt. Washington is not a line

New England’s highest peak is unforgiving above treeline. But for some species of flora and fauna, the alpine zone provides exactly what they need to survive.

Something Wild: Atop Mt. Washington

The dark form of a turkey vulture soaring overhead is a sight seen across the U.S. There are many things to appreciate about the bird.

Something Wild: Tracking turkey vultures on a NH cliff

How can you outsmart poison ivy? 85% of the population is allergic to the ingredient in the plant that causes the itchy, blistering rash.

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