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07-03: Random Birds, Vol 6, with Ted Floyd Jan 19, 2023

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Birding magazine editor and all-around bird-knower Ted Floyd is back for another bout of Random Birds. He joins host Nate Swick, a big bird list, and a random number generator to create podcast magic. This session includes a number of holarctic species, a pair of warblers and one of Ted's 10 favorite bird species. Well, maybe…

Plus, some thoughts and the most gull rich metro in the ABA Area.

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07-02: Winter Birding and More with Erik Bruhnke Jan 12, 2023

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Much of North America is gripped in the depths of winter. It's cold. It's snowy. It's frequently unpleasant. But for those that push through, the birding can be oh so rewarding. This is especially true in places where the winter hits hardest. Diehard Minnesota birder Erik Bruhnke is guide for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours and a stalwart at birding festivals. He joins Nate to talk about winter birding, leading bird tours and cool bird facts.

Also, Nate talks Costa Rica birding and a frustrating anti-feeder law.

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07-01: 2023 Bird of the Year Artist Liz Clayton Fuller Jan 05, 2023

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Happy New Year List! It's finally time to celebrate our 2023 Bird of the Year, the Belted Kingfisher! And to help jumpstart a year of kingfisher content, we're excited to welcome this year's artist, Liz Clayton Fuller. Host Nate Swick chatted with Liz about kingfishers, her 2023 cover art "Queenfisher", and her work streaming art on Twitch. I think you'll agree that she is a delight. Also, Nate shares his first Belted Kingfisher experience and invites listeners to send theirs to podcast@aba.org.

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06-51: This Month in Birding - December 2022 Dec 22, 2022

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Thanks to all our listeners and supporters for another exceptional year. To wrap up 2022, we welcome back some insightful and entertaining birder friends to the last This Month in Birding for the year. We're joined by Popular Science's Purbita Saha, science writer Ryan Mandelbaum, and The Birdist, Nick Lund to talk about the biggest birding trends of 2022 and our best birding experiences of the year.

Links to article discussed in this episode:

New Shazam for Birds will Identify that Chipping For You

Female Blue Tits Sing Frequently

Old Bones Suggest Presence of Thick-billed Parrots in the Southwest

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06-50: Tales from the Southern Ocean with Katinka Domen & Ted Floyd Dec 15, 2022

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ABA staffers Katinka Domen and Ted Floyd recently accompanied an ABA excursion to the land of penguins and albatrosses. They join host Nate Swick to talk about what it's like to visit the southernmost continent on Earth, and what ecotourism looks like in this unique place. Also, the ABA Bird of the Year 2023 is Belted Kingfisher!

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06-49: Birding Book Club - Best of 2022 Dec 08, 2022

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It is time once more for the most anticipated Birding Book Club of the year, our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2022. With the holiday gift-giving season is right around the corner there's no better time to give the gift of bird books to the birder in your life. Or yourself, we don't judge. We are joined by 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman and Birding magazine editor Frank Izaguirre to talk about what we loved this year in bird books.

For a full list of the books discussed, please see the ABA Podcast website.

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06-48: Birding While Black with J. Drew Lanham Dec 01, 2022

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One of the issues that the birding community has been reckoning with for the last several years is how we can encourage a broader coalition of nature enthusiasts to join us and to share the joy of birding. It's an issue that Dr. Drew Lanham has given a great deal of thought. Lanham is a distinguished professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University, a recent MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and his memoir, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair With Nature was published in 2017. In this encore episode from 2018, he joins host Nate Swick to talk about his experiences as a black man who loves what he calls one of "the whitest things you can do".

Also, a small adjustment in our winter finch expectations.

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06-47: This Month in Birding - November 2022 Nov 24, 2022

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Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating! How about a fun bird discussion to go along with our one and only bird-related holiday? Nate Swick is joined by Bird Sh*t's Mo Stych, aeroecologist Mikko Jimenez, and the ABA's own Greg Neise to talk about eBird status and trends, hybrid chickadees, bird rediscoveries, and our avian zodiac signs.

Links to topics discussed in this episode:

Smartphone-based Study Reveals Mental Health Benefits of Birding

Evaluating crowdsourced data to Quantify Inequitable Access to Urban Biodiversity.

Hybrid Birds in Human-altered Landscapes

Researchers Rediscover the Black-naped Pheasant-Pigeon

What is Your Birth Month Bird?

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06-46: Burrowing Owls of San Diego with Susanne Marczak & Colleen Wisinski Nov 17, 2022

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The ABA is gearing up to announce its 2023 Bird of the Year but we're not ready to say good-bye to the year of the Burrowing Owl just yet. With that in mind, we welcome Colleen Wisinski and Susanne Marczak of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance's Burrowing Owl Recovery Program to talk about their efforts to protect the local population of Burrowing Owls and what they've learned about the species in doing so.

Also, Nate is back from a great Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival.

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06-45: Birds, Wildfires, and Smoke with Olivia Sanderfoot Nov 10, 2022

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A warmer and drier world means, unfortunately, a world in which wildfire becomes a greater risk. We know, all too well, the risk these fires pose to wild places, but there is surprisingly little we know about the risk to wildlife. That is the work of Dr. Olivia Sanderfoot, a researcher at UCLA looking at the impacts of wildfire smoke on wild birds and trying to answer a few of those increasingly relevant questions.

Also, a new bird endurance record!

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