01-06: The Field Guide to Bird Sounds with Nathan Pieplow

The American Birding Podcast

naswick

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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, the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America, and the need for birders to establish a common vocabulary for bird sounds.

Also Greg Neise and Ted Floyd check back in during the waning days of winter to talk snowbird diversity. Juncos are one of the most fascinating groups of birds on the continent and now is a great time to appreciate them.

Plus, the ABA is excited about the new book Good Birders Still Don't Wear White. Join now and you could win a copy!

If you are interested in sponsoring an episode of this podcast, and reaching the thousands of birders who listen to is, please be in touch with John Lowry at [email protected]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American
0:11.8	Birding Association.
0:12.6	I am your host, Nate Swick, and we at the ABA are very excited about the recent publication
0:18.9	of the book Good Birders Still Don't Wear White. It is a
0:23.4	sequel of sorts to Good Birders Don't Wear White, which first came out 10 years ago, if you can
0:28.1	believe it. What it is is a book of short essays about birding, about different birders' passion
0:34.6	for this hobby, about the things that they are most interested in.
0:40.5	It features many, many celebrity burders.
0:46.2	You can't see me, but I'm using air quotes for celebrities such that any birder can really be considered a celebrity in our little community, but well-known burders.
0:50.5	Perhaps that's a better way to put it.
0:52.1	It is particularly notable for the ABA for a couple
0:54.9	reasons. One is that there are no fewer than 10 essays written by ABA staff and board, including
1:01.4	one from yours truly. So maybe I am a little biased in saying that I think it's a really fun book,
1:06.1	but there are a lot of voices in there that are well worth your time. And more, with every purchase of
1:12.5	good birders still don't wear white, a small portion goes to the ABA for our conservation
1:17.5	and community programming, so you are helping us out too. And a big thanks to the publisher,
1:22.7	Houghton Mifflin-Harkort for that, and to editor Lisa White in particular. So you can purchase it wherever
1:28.1	books are sold, but we at the ABA are also hosting a drawing this month. We are giving
1:32.9	away 20 copies of the book to 20 birders who join the ABA or renew their membership
1:38.5	before the end of this month. That is March 31st, 2017, so you can potentially get it that way, too.
1:45.4	We have a really exciting show for you this time around, back by popular demand.
1:49.8	Greg Nees and Ted Floyd returned to talk about bird ID and taxonomy.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from naswick, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of naswick and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.