01-07: The Biggest Week with Kim Kaufman

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Biggest Week in American Birding is one of the biggest birding events on the calendar, and a wonderful opportunity for birders to make a difference while enjoying the best spring birding on the continent. Biggest Week creator Kim Kaufman joins Nate to talk about this year's event and the conservation ethos that inspired it.

Also, the ABA remembers Chandler Robbins, author of the Golden Guide, creator of the Breeding Bird Survey, and one of the most influential and beloved birders and ornithologists in North American birding history. Be sure to read Birding editor Ted Floyd's remembrance, and the interview with Chan published in 2014.

Thanks to Zeiss Sports Optics for supporting this episode. Their Spring Promotion ends on April 10, 2017!

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding podcast is brought to you by Zeiss Sports Optics and their spring fever promotion.
0:05.6	Get instant rebates on model year Zeis binoculars, including the excellent victory SF and the Conquest HD at all authorized Zeis dealers.
0:13.8	It's going on now through April 10, 2017.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:36.2	I am your host, Nate Swick, and I just want to start out this episode with an acknowledgement of the loss of Chandler Robbins a couple weeks ago. We were finishing up production of the last
0:38.6	podcast when the news came out so we didn't mention it then, but I wanted to mention it now,
0:43.7	as there are a few, if any individuals in the birding community who had such a sustained
0:48.4	influence on nearly every aspect of birding as a hobby and as a science and the sort of
0:53.6	rich intersection between the two
0:55.1	where most of us live, as Chandler Robbins did. There have been an outpouring of memories in the
1:00.9	wake of his passing, nearly all of them focusing on Chan's legendary humility and kindness,
1:06.0	his extraordinary dedication to good science, much of it in the service of bird conservation.
1:11.3	His work with DDT influenced none other than Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring,
1:15.8	arguably set in motion the entire conservation movement in the United States.
1:20.4	He was among the first to start talking about forest fragmentation and its effect on birds,
1:25.1	which are concepts that are sort of baked into the minds of birders anymore,
1:28.8	it is impossible to underplay his influence in a lot of what we do.
1:33.0	He was also in an important figure in ABA history.
1:36.6	I don't know if a lot of people know that.
1:38.4	He served as the first chair of the ABA checklist committee,
1:41.6	and the ABA awards the Chandler-Robbins Award for
1:45.0	Birder Education and Conservation to those birders who go above and beyond in those fields, as
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