Episode 1: An introduction to 'Voices of a Flyway', setting the stage for what to expect on our 2.5 month, 2,000 mile journey.

To learn more about the project, visit www.voicesofaflyway.com/explore to start exploring our 6 interactive story maps that feature more of the stories, photos, and videos of the project!

Funded by an Explorer grant from National Geographic, our team - a soundscape recordist, an audio producer, and a wildlife photographer - traveled from the Louisiana coastline to the Boundary Waters of Minnesota with the 2019 spring songbird migration. We visited six at-risk ecosystems along the route to uncover:

1. Why each of these delicate ecosystems is so critical to bird migration.

2. The infinite ways that people living in these areas share connections to the natural world.

3. What stands to be lost as these ecosystems vanish?