01-14: Birding, Social Media, and the Facebook Summit

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Birders have always been great at taking advantage of technological tools to pass on birding information. The birding community has made especially good use of Facebook, and the internet giant has taken note. The ABA was received as a guest at the 1st Facebook Communities Summit to talk about two of our more vibrant groups, ABA Rare Bird Alert and What's This Bird. Jeff Gordon, Greg Neise, and Liz Gordon join host Nate Swick to talk about their experiences, and why it is that birders are so adept at social media.

And be sure to read Jeff's post on The ABA Blog about his experience, it was really cool that birders and the birding community played such a large role in the event.

Nate talks briefly about the recent split and lump news, you can read Birder's Guide editor Michael Retter's comprehensive run down of all the taxonomic changes.

Thanks again to Rockjumper Worldwide Birding Tours for sponsoring this episode and ABA Events, and to Samson Technologies for providing equipment used on the podcast.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by Rock Jumper Worldwide Birding Adventures,
0:13.7	specializing in top quality birdwatching tours with experienced professional guides to over 100 destinations around the world.
0:22.5	The American Birding Association is proud to join Rockjumper to offer an ABA tour to Tanzania
0:27.7	in 2018.
0:30.0	Join us for hundreds of birds, iconic mammals, and amazing culture and scenery.
0:35.4	For more information, see rockjumper.com or events.a.org.
0:44.2	Welcome to another episode of the American Burning Podcast from the American
0:49.5	Birding Association.
0:50.7	I'm your host, Nate Swick, and I feel like it would be inappropriate for me,
0:55.4	not to mention the biggest news in the North American birding world in the last couple
1:01.2	weeks, that being the release of the American Ornithological Society's checklist supplement,
1:07.9	rather confusingly called the American Ornithologist Union checklist supplement.
1:12.4	I guess they stuck with the prelump name for the organization for this one.
1:15.7	This is essentially the result of all the potential bird taxonomy changes that we talked
1:20.2	about back in episode 0108 with Professor Nick Block.
1:25.0	And well, you know, I think I should have Nick back in the not too distant
1:28.8	future to talk about these results, because some of the changes that we were expecting didn't happen.
1:35.1	And that being those splits to the Yellow Roamed Warbler and Willett, most notably. And some of them
1:40.9	happened that we did not expect. The Nashville Warbler split, which was not
1:45.3	considered to be terribly likely. It came within one vote of passage, so we were very close to
1:52.2	Calaveras Warbler, and we may have it in the not too distant future. And the Crossville
1:57.8	split that seemed like a long shot did go through. So now we have a new United States endemic species, not only that, but an Idaho
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