01-17: The Secret Life of Rails with Auriel Fournier

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rails are a mysterious and enigmatic family, often requiring and rewarding effort. Researcher Auriel Fournier knows that more than most, and her work with rails in Missouri has shed some light on how these birds migrate and how they use the landscape when they do. Auriel joins me to talk Rallidae and STEM outreach for women.

Also, Greg Neise and Birding editor Ted Floyd are back to discuss the much-maligned House Sparrow. Or, at least, to discuss their remarkable molt.

Some other things mentioned in this episode include ABA President Jeff Gordon's Facebook Live posts from the Protect Santa Ana Protest March, and the Dead Birds Facebook group.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by Rock Jumper Worldwide Birding Adventures,
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0:22.9	amazing culture and scenery. For more information, see rockjumper.com or events.aba.org. Hi, and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American
0:44.3	Birding Association. I am your host, Nate Swick, and before I get to the meat of the episode,
0:51.2	and we have a good one this time around that it's sort of turned into an
0:54.5	unofficial underappreciated bird episode quite accidentally by the way just sort of the way
1:00.2	that the contents sort of shuffled itself together i'll explain what i mean by that later
1:04.6	but first a couple noteworthy bits of news not necessarily necessarily related. First, two episodes ago, I talked
1:12.7	quite a bit about the Santa Ana situation, and by that I mean the proposed border wall at the
1:17.9	Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge in South Texas that threatens to bisect the refuge, and there are
1:24.0	real questions about access to the refuge for burders.
1:29.4	I won't go into detail again.
1:32.0	You can check out episode 015 if you haven't already.
1:39.1	But there was a protest march on the refuge held on August 13th, so a couple weeks ago as of the publication of this podcast.
1:42.0	And ABA President Jeff Gordon was there on the ground,
1:45.4	representing the birding community of the U.S. and Canada, both of which used this refuge,
1:50.1	making sure that our concerns about access and environmental degradation were heard.
1:55.3	He was joined by hundreds of other people, a diverse coalition of interested parties.
2:00.1	It was quite a thing. And he did a series of
2:02.6	Facebook live videos from the march itself. And I have collected those in a blog post, the link to which I
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