01-02: The Big Big Year Episode

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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 insights in a jam-packed episode. Nate also has a conversation with previous record-holder Neil Hayward, whose book, Lost Among the Birds, was published in 2016.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by Naturalist Journeys,
0:04.8	carefully crafting birding and wildlife tours since 1998.
0:08.3	For more information, go to www.netralistjourneys.com.
0:19.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast. I'm Nate Swick, editor of the ABA
0:23.9	blog and your host. We have a big episode here this time around featuring all the major players
0:29.2	in 2016's exciting big year attempts, all successful, by the way, to break the previous big year
0:34.7	record set in 2013 by Neil Hayward.
0:39.2	And because we try to pack so much in,
0:42.1	this episode is going to run a little bit longer than our previous episode,
0:43.9	about 10 or 15 minutes or so.
0:47.9	You might say that this is the greater episode to our typical lesser episodes.
0:48.9	They're very similar.
0:50.8	The differences are really subtle.
0:53.2	The important field mark here that you're going to want to be looking for is that number at the end.
0:55.7	You'll note it's a little bit larger.
0:58.7	Anyway, we're going to talk to Neil Hayward, the previous record holder about his book and his thoughts on his record being broken.
1:04.2	Then we'll line up Christian Hagenlocker, Laura Keen, Olaf Danielson, and John Wagle to talk to them about 2016.
1:10.2	It is a murderer's row of big-year
1:12.2	birders. And they all have some really interesting things to say about this in their year,
1:15.9	about perception of big ears and coming down from birdfinding and about all the adventures that they had.
1:21.0	So I'm going to try and keep this opening segment to a minimum so we can get right into it.
1:25.6	But I do want to announce one thing.
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