01-01: 2017 ABA Bird of the Year Artist Sophie Webb

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

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 Birding magazine. We discuss turnstones, art, and what she looks for in her role as a Young Birder of the Year judge.

We also want to hear your Ruddy Turnstone stories! One of the wonderful things about this bird is that you can find them when you're birding just about anywhere in the world, as Nate Swick recently discovered. He shares the story.

Share your Ruddy Turnstone stories with us! We'd love to hear them!

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0:00.0	Hello, hello,
0:08.0	Hello, happy new year and welcome to another episode from the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:24.6	I'm Nate Swick, editor of the ABA blog and your host here, and I hope that your 2017 year list is off to a great start.
0:31.6	Mine definitely is not. I've been out a couple times in my home county picking up the common stuff, but it's
0:37.5	been a slow star for sure. The weather certainly has not been helping around here. I am certainly
0:42.4	not on pace to have any sort of year like the one that John Weigel just finished. His total of
0:47.1	780 species in the ABA area plus three provisionals, which are our first records that have
0:52.6	yet to be added to the official list, smashed the ABA Area Big Year's record set by Neil Hayward in 2013. And if that wasn't
1:00.0	enough, three more birders broke that record this year. Olaf Danielson ended the year at
1:04.6	776 plus two. Laura Keene ended the year at 759 plus three, and Christian Hagenlocker at 750 plus two.
1:14.2	All exceptional totals in what turned out to be an exceptional year.
1:18.0	So congratulations to those birders.
1:20.0	I think I can speak for a lot of people in the U.S., Canada, and the world when I say that
1:24.3	it was really fun to follow along with all four of you this year.
1:27.0	We are going to be speaking to those big year birders in an upcoming episode of this podcast,
1:31.7	so stay tuned for that in the coming weeks. I'm really excited about that.
1:35.1	I have heard that there is one burner tackling an ABA area big year in 2017.
1:40.0	I don't know if it is an attempt to break the record, but with Hawaii in the mix, who knows.
1:48.6	That out of the way, the big news for the first part of the year, at least in the APA,
1:53.0	is the announcement of the 2017 bird of the year, which is, drum roll please.
1:55.7	Thank you, John.
1:57.3	It's ruddy turnstone. Aranaria and Treas, the little calico-colored sandpiper is a favorite across the ABA
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