00-02: Prairie Bird Conservation with Scott Somershoe

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 29 December 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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 about the work he does with the ABA's 2016 Bird of the Year Chestnut-collared Longspur and other prairie species.

Last, Greg Neise and Ted Floyd discuss identification of white-cheeked geese, and share tips that might help you on your next Christmas Bird Count.

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0:00.0	I'm Nate Swick, and this is the American Birding Podcast.
0:08.2	Merry Christmas bird count season, and welcome back to another edition of the American
0:12.1	Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:14.8	And I just want to start off by thanking everyone for the kind words and responses we've gotten
0:18.2	since our launch two weeks ago.
0:19.7	As you probably can guess,
0:21.1	the amount of work that goes into a project like this before it even goes live is pretty significant.
0:25.7	So it's really great to get to this point and it's really great to receive the feedback that we've
0:30.0	received so far. It's been very satisfying. So thank you all for that.
0:36.5	We've some really great stuff for you this time around. We're going to give our 2016
0:40.3	bird of the year chestnut-collared longspur an appropriate send-off. I'll share a conversation I had
0:45.0	with Scott Somershoe, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who is working with
0:49.3	chestnut-collar longsper and other prairie birds in the northern Great Plains. Then, A webmaster Greg Neese and birding magazine editor Ted Floyd discuss white-cheeked goose
0:58.7	identification, that's Canada versus cackling, and offer some info that you might be able to use on
1:03.7	an upcoming CBC or wherever you're birding this winter.
1:07.2	And speaking of Canada, congratulations are certainly in order for our friends and members in Canada, who, it seems, are on the verge of getting a new national bird.
1:15.0	The organization Canadian Geographic ran a survey in 2016 in which people were asked to choose from among a list of birds.
1:21.8	Despite finishing in third place on the online voting, Gray J. was the one that Canadian Geographic nominated.
1:28.8	I, for one, am okay with that, and not just because I was on Team Graham J from the beginning. From a Berger's
1:34.2	perspective, I think it was the obvious choice. They're definitely associated with the North. They're
1:39.0	tough, they're smart, they're friendly. These are all things that I certainly associate with friends
1:43.3	from Canada. And they are personality traits that many Canadians consider representative of their national character as well. And of course, these are all the arguments that are made by those pushing Gray J over alternatives like common loon or snowy owl or God forbid Canada goose. And none of this is really binding, of course, the Parliament still has to vote on
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