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Expeditions with Patrick McMillan
The Rite of Spring
Season 1
Episode 113
Every spring, thousands of species participate in rituals with a single goal in mind: breeding. Birds migrate huge distances from wintering grounds. Frogs, each with their own unique voice, call from wetlands. Deer and elk battle with antlers as weapons. McMillan and guests explore the amazing, and often bizarre rituals, of many creatures across the continent and right outside your back door.
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Table Rock is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the southern Blue Ridge
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Join Patrick as he explores whether a collaboration of science and will can save the scrub
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Join Patrick as he explores the Florida Scrub.
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The ACE Basin offers one of the largest pieces of protected land on the Atlantic coast.
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The ACE Basin offers one of the largest pieces of protected land on the Atlantic coast.
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Join Patrick as he takes a unique look at a very familiar place, Grandfather Mountain.
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Join Patrick in western Kansas where a landowner is fighting to keep his prairie dogs.
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The web of life revolves around the biology of Bison.
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Join Patrick in a quest to find evidence of the “Lord God Bird."
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This is a very special bit of land; it is a destination for millions of visiting animals.
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Belize is the smallest country in Central America both in size and population.
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Join Patrick as he explores the Mayan Forest.