01-21: Birds and the Farm Bill with Amanda Rodewald

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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When birders think about the Farm Bill they might be forgiven for thinking immediately about corn and soybeans. But the Farm Bill is more than an agricultural omnibus, it also funds projects that provide important habitat for more than 100 species of birds and is the largest source of funding for habitat conservation on private lands. Amanda Rodewald of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology joins host Nate Swick to talk about this most recent State of the Birds report, which features the Farm Bill, and all that it does for birds.

Also, ABA President Jeff Gordon responds to conversation about Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and what the "ABA Area" really means. You can find that conversation here, and the Birds Caribbean GoFundMe started by our friends at Wildside Nature Tour here.

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0:47.4	For more information, see rockjumper.com or events.a.org. Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Burning podcast from the American Burning Association.
0:55.5	I am your host, Nate Swick, and didn't occur to me until the last episode was out the door that I had forgotten to say that last time.
0:57.1	Oh, I didn't confuse anybody.
1:04.7	I have a few, a couple disparate birding related topics to touch on at the top of the show this time around.
1:07.5	We had some really good feedback from the last episode.
1:10.7	That is, 012, the photography episode.
1:14.0	Borders apparently have lots of opinions about photography.
1:15.4	Who could have guessed, right?
1:21.6	On our ABA Facebook page in the discussion about this episode, I wanted to highlight a comment by Eric Bruder, riffing on the Pixar Didn't Happen comment that I think Greg made.
1:29.1	He states, I'm aware of at least two cases where expert birders had rare bird reports denied because text descriptions and
1:34.5	sketches were not considered sufficient. He goes on to say that one of them was actually a
1:38.6	pretty well-known bird artist. Yeah, I mean, that's a shame. I think I responded to Greg that there's this
1:46.1	aspect of photography that that means that birders who perhaps aren't great at describing birds or
1:51.0	at least aren't great at describing birds in the way that bird committees really like them to be
1:55.1	described. You know, I think it's a good thing that we're getting photos to cover for, you know, what may have in the
2:01.8	past been not great descriptions. You know, ultimately, I want the birds that are out there to be seen,
2:06.5	to be documented, to get in the record that's important to me and to a lot of other birders. I still
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