01-20: How Photography has Changed Birding

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2017

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

There is arguably no technological shift that has changed birding more in the last decade or so than the proliferation of cameras. Taking photos and sharing photos has become synonymous with birding for many and it’s hard to remember time now when that wasn’t the case. In this episode, host Nate Swick talks broadly about photography in the birding world with a couple American Birding Podcast regulars, webmaster Greg Neise and Birding magazine editor Ted Floyd. We discuss records committees, social media, and whether this change is good for birding on the whole.

Also, birds and bird conservationists in the Caribbean are hurting following the passage of two major hurricanes. Our friends at Wildside Nature Tours give you an opportunity to help.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by Rock Jumper Worldwide Birding Adventures,
0:05.8	specializing in top-quality birdwatching tours with experienced professional guides to over 100 destinations around the world.
0:12.6	The American Birding Association is proud to join Rockjumper to offer an ABA tour to Tanzania in 2018.
0:19.3	Join us for hundreds of birds, iconic mammals, and amazing culture and
0:23.1	scenery. For more information, see rockjumper.com or events.a.org. Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association.
0:43.6	I just want to start off by thanking those of you who stopped by the ABA booth at the American Burning Expo in Philadelphia last weekend to say hello and share that you enjoy the podcast. It is a very
0:56.0	weird thing to be recognized by your voice. That was a new, a new experience for me. So thanks
1:04.2	for making me the focus of that very strange experience. And thank you so much for listening
1:09.9	and stopping by and saying hello.
1:12.7	I just want to spend a little bit of time right off the front talking about the hurricanes.
1:18.4	Multiple hurricanes. It has been long enough that we are starting to get some news from the
1:23.4	islands in the Caribbean that were hit by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. If you were following along,
1:29.1	you know that islands like Marbuta, Dominica, and Puerto Rico, particularly were hit hard. And along
1:34.7	with all the human suffering, a lot of birders were also concerned with the welfare of many of the
1:40.9	endemic bird species on those islands. Now, now there was sort of a couple weeks out from the passage of those storms.
1:47.4	There's a little bit more to report.
1:50.1	The Barbuda Warbler, a species found only on tiny Barbuda, and there was a lot of concern
1:55.6	that Hurricane Irma's passage directly over that island could have been an extinction-level
2:00.4	event for that species.
2:02.6	It's only about 2,000 birds on the island.
2:04.8	All of the residents, all the human residents of that island were evacuated.
2:08.3	So the fate of the bird was unknown for several days, but representatives from Birds Caribbean were able to get on the island and find a few, not many, but a few barbuda warblers that survived the storm.
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