01-05: Champions of the Flyway with Jonathan Meyrav

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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 migratory birds in Europe and Africa. He joins host Nate Swick to talk about Champions, and the great work they they are helping to fund.

Also, we talk about birding awards, from Piper's win at the Oscars, to ABA Awards and Young Birders of the Year, and John Lowry and ABA President Jeff Gordon discuss an innovative new product from Swarovski.

Thanks to Global Rescue, the ABA's official emergency evacuation provider, for sponsoring this episode

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding podcast is brought to you by Global Rescue, the
0:03.7	ABA's official emergency medical and evacuation provider. Global Rescue is a worldwide leader in
0:09.0	field rescue, medical evacuation, and security extraction services for more than a decade,
0:13.8	and their industry-leading network of personnel and resources are on call to provide assistance
0:18.3	or evacuation from nearly anywhere on Earth.
0:24.4	When ABA members purchase a Global Rescue membership through the association,
0:27.8	a portion of the proceeds will go to helping ABA programs and conservation.
0:34.0	For more information, go to www.global rescue.com slash partners slash ABA.
0:44.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm your host, Nate Swick, and it is award season, not just sort of in the
0:50.1	wider entertainment world, where it seems like there are award shows on every week these days.
0:56.2	But here at the ABA, too.
0:57.8	But we'll start with sort of that outside non-birding world.
1:01.1	If you watch the Oscars last week, you may have seen a short called Piper win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
1:09.3	It's a cute little film featuring a flock of animated sandalings.
1:13.0	It originally ran at the beginning of the Pixar film, Finding Dory, I Have Kids,
1:16.7	that's where I first saw it.
1:18.7	And while it's not completely ornithologically accurate with regard to where
1:22.9	sandalings breed and what they look like when they do that, But it's not worth being too pedantic about that.
1:28.7	The animation is really well done. It's amazing what they can do these days, rendering feathers.
1:33.4	It's available online now. I'll put a link to it in the show notes. You should check it out.
1:37.5	A lot of birders were sort of excited to see a film that featured birds so prominently win a big
1:43.0	award like that. It was kind of neat. We also have
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