05-46: Birding Book Club - Best of 2021 | The American Birding Podcast Podcast

01-17: The Secret Life of Rails with Auriel Fournier: Rails are a mysterious and enigmatic family, often requiring and rewarding effort. Researcher Auriel Fournier knows that more than most, and her work with rails in Missouri has shed some light on how these birds migrate and how they use the landscape... by The American Birding Podcast

34 min listen

00-01: Nature Travel with Laura Kammermeier: Laura Kammermeier of Nature Travel Network joins us to talk about birding travel, what birders want when they head abroad, and how traveling for birds helps establish ecotourism and conservation initiatives around the world. Nate Swick offers a... by The American Birding Podcast

29 min listen

01-08: 2017 Splits and Lumps, The AOS Episode: Every year, birders look forward to the check-list supplement from the American Ornithological Society (formerly the American Ornithologist's Union), and this year is no exception. In fact, 2017 offers a bounty of potential splits for your armchair... by The American Birding Podcast

37 min listen

01-05: Champions of the Flyway with Jonathan Meyrav: Bird-trapping and shooting are huge problems around the Mediterranean, which prompted Israeli birder Jonathan Meyrav to create the Champions of the Flyway, a 24 hour bird race in Eilat, Israel, that raises money and awareness to combat the threats to... by The American Birding Podcast

34 min listen

01-10: Voices from Biggest Week - The Good Birders Panel: The ABA was once again excited to have a presence at The Biggest Week in American Birding in northwest Ohio in 2017. At this year's festival, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt editor Lisa White and ABA President Jeffrey Gordon hosted a keynote panel featuring... by The American Birding Podcast

45 min listen

01-02: The Big Big Year Episode: 2016 was an exceptional year for ABA Area Big Year birders, with four individuals all breaking the record in one year! Nate Swick talks with all four - Christian Hagenlocher, Laura Keene, Olaf Danielson, and John Weigel - about their experiences and... by The American Birding Podcast

46 min listen

01-26: The Christmas Bird Count-stravaganza Episode: It's Christmas Bird Count season, and in this episode of the American Birding Podcast we bring you past guests and ABA friends and staff sharing their own CBC stories. We have tales of found birds, of missed birds, of fun and fellowship and legacies... by The American Birding Podcast

31 min listen

01-12: The Young Birder Episode 2017: The ABA has a long history of supporting young birders through our Young Birder of the Year competitions and the young birder camps in Colorado and Delaware, programs that have had real positive impacts on the young people who participate in them.... by The American Birding Podcast

27 min listen

01-04: Natural Soundscapes with Lang Elliot: Master bird recordist Lang Elliott joins Nate Swick to talk about his new project, a sound-recording expedition to the western US. Lang hopes to record in a wide variety of locations and habitats, and he's documenting his journey on his website,... by The American Birding Podcast

38 min listen

01-11: Bird Conservation in Hawaii with Mike Parr: Mike Parr is the new president of the American Bird Conservancy, one of the premier bird conservation organizations in the Americas. ABC has done a great deal of work supporting bird conservation initiatives in Hawaii, the archipelago often referred... by The American Birding Podcast

31 min listen

01-07: The Biggest Week with Kim Kaufman: The Biggest Week in American Birding is one of the biggest birding events on the calendar, and a wonderful opportunity for birders to make a difference while enjoying the best spring birding on the continent. Biggest Week creator Kim Kaufman joins... by The American Birding Podcast

25 min listen

03-07: On Crow Culture with Kaeli Swift: Dr. Kaeli Swift knows crows. And she's watched them do some pretty extraordinary things. In fact all corvids-the family that includes crows, jays, magpies, and others-have a well deserved reputation for intelligence and fascinating social behaviors.... by The American Birding Podcast

34 min listen

01-09: The Great Canadian Birdathon with Jody Allair: Bird Studies Canada is the premier bird conservation organization in Canada, and their annual Great Canadian Birdathon is a the world's oldest sponsored bird race. It's a great way for Canadian birders to support conservation work across the country.... by The American Birding Podcast

29 min listen

00-02: Prairie Bird Conservation with Scott Somershoe: Merry Christmas Bird Count Season, and congratulations to Canada for their new national bird, Gray Jay, and the birdy headlines it spawned. Then it's good-bye to 2016 with Scott Somershoe, a bird researcher with USFWS, who joins Nate Swick to talk... by The American Birding Podcast

26 min listen

02-10: Birding Without Tears- Stories and Secrets of Birding With Kids: It's natural for birding parents to want to share their passion with their children. Birding with kids often brings additional complications, but also additional pleasures, and opportunities to appreciate birding in different and delightful ways.... by The American Birding Podcast

33 min listen

01-06: The Field Guide to Bird Sounds with Nathan Pieplow: Nathan Pieplow's new Field Guide is a departure from the traditional book of bird images. It depicts images of bird sounds as spectrograms, showcasing the diversity of vocalizations in North America. Nathan joins Nate Swick to talk about his new book,... by The American Birding Podcast

32 min listen

01-03: Cornell's Merlin App with Drew Weber: With the ambitious and impressive Merlin app, Cornell Lab of Ornithology will identify your mystery bird photos! Project Manager Drew Weber joins Nate Swick to talk about how it works and what kind of applications this program has for every birder and... by The American Birding Podcast

30 min listen

01-22: Hurricane Impacts on Caribbean Birds with Alvaro Jaramillo: The 2017 Hurricane season was notable for the scale of the tropical storms involved and the destruction they caused not only where they made landfall in the United States, but also the islands in the Caribbean that they passed over. Alvaro Jaramillo... by The American Birding Podcast

31 min listen

01-20: How Photography has Changed Birding: There is arguably no technological shift that has changed birding more in the last decade or so than the proliferation of cameras. Taking photos and sharing photos has become synonymous with birding for many and it’s hard to remember time now when... by The American Birding Podcast

35 min listen

01-15: Birds Over the Top with Seabird McKeon: A changing climate means a different world for many bird species, particularly seabirds which may find themselves exploring new paths over the top of a melting Arctic. Ocean Researcher Seabird McKeon joins host Nate Swick to talk about one part of the... by The American Birding Podcast

31 min listen

02-02: The Nomadic Nature of Snow Buntings with Emily McKinnon: It’s the time of year when Arctic birds are moving south into the populated parts of the continent, and citizen scientists are there to meet them, trap them, and use cutting edge technology to track their movements. It’s a testament to our... by The American Birding Podcast

30 min listen

02-06: Winter Birding in Review with Mike Hudson & Tom Reed: For birders interested in Status & Distribution, that is the wheres and whys of birding, the ABA’s quarterly journal, North American Birds, has always been a much anticipated part of the ornithological canon. After a year or so in stasis, North... by The American Birding Podcast

28 min listen

02-08: eBird's Global Big Day with Ian Davies & Kyle Horton: Spring is right around the corner. And if you're going to be birding, you might as well be eBirding. You should definitely be eBirding on May 5th, eBird’s annual Global Big Day. Last year birders recorded more than 6600 species from 160 different... by The American Birding Podcast

33 min listen

01-01: 2017 ABA Bird of the Year Artist Sophie Webb: Welcome Ruddy Turnstone, 2017 ABA Bird of the Year! Nate Swick has a conversation with scientist, author, and 2017 BOY artist Sophie Webb (www.sophiewebb.com) whose image of Ruddy Turnstones will be featured on the cover of the February 2017 issue of... by The American Birding Podcast

27 min listen

01-13: Actor Ian Harding's Odd Birds: In demand actor, 7 time winner of the Teen Choice Award, and avid birder? Ian Harding is best known for his work on the Freeform network's teen-drama Pretty Little Liars, but in his new memoir Odd Birds he talks about how birds and birding have... by The American Birding Podcast

33 min listen

01-19: Bird Tours from the Inside with Rockjumper's George Armistead: There's more to a successful bird tour than just pointing out the birds, from logistics to managing personalities, a bird tour guide has to be part ornithologist and part psychologist. Rockjumper Birding's George Armistead has led bird tours on all... by The American Birding Podcast

31 min listen

01-21: Birds and the Farm Bill with Amanda Rodewald: When birders think about the Farm Bill they might be forgiven for thinking immediately about corn and soybeans. But the Farm Bill is more than an agricultural omnibus, it also funds projects that provide important habitat for more than 100 species of... by The American Birding Podcast

32 min listen

02-14: A Life in Raptors with Jerry Liguori: Hawk-watchers are easily the most established sub-groups within th birding community, and the hawk-watching community in North America is close-knit and passionate. One of its undisputed authorities is Jerry Liguori of Salt Lake City, Utah, the author... by The American Birding Podcast

29 min listen

01-18: American Birding Expo News with Bill Thompson III: Later this month, birders and tour operators from across the globe will converge on Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the 3rd American Birding Expo. This "World of Birding in One Place" is the brainchild of Bill Thompson III, editor of Birdwatcher's... by The American Birding Podcast

31 min listen

01-24: Best Bird Books of 2017 with Donna Schulman: We all love bird books and 2017 was a good year for them with a number of exciting titles seeing publication this year. As we reach the end of the year it's a good time to look back at the ones we loved, and 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman... by The American Birding Podcast

32 min listen

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