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Hi, and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast.

I am your host, Nate Swick.

There was an article that came out in, last week in McLean's, which is a news magazine based of Toronto, Ontario. You might have seen it kicking around on social media. It was called

the rise of millennial urban-dwelling burders.

I thought it was notable for a couple reasons.

First, man, here's birding covered positively in a serious general interest publication without a single bird's flock headline in sight, so that's pretty cool.

And second, I don't know if you've been following the spate of various millennials

are killing the whatever industry stories that have been coming out in the last few months.

There are a ton of them out there. Apparently, this generation is responsible for the deaths of

everything from wine sales to casual restaurants to marriage. But they're not killing

birding. Evidently, that is one thing that

millennials will spare from their cultural murder spree. So to all the millennials listening,

thank you for that. Anyway, the article goes on to say that the, this rise of data culture,

eBird, phone field guides and other apps like Larkwire, Merlin, I Naturalist now,

have really made it easy to share information very widely. And there's also sort of this general

social media sharing ethos that we've talked about here on the podcast, all sort of lending

itself to the gamification of birding that is supposedly appealing to this generation.

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