01-22: Hurricane Impacts on Caribbean Birds with Alvaro Jaramillo
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The 2017 Hurricane season was notable for the scale of the tropical storms involved and the destruction they caused not only where they made landfall in the United States, but also the islands in the Caribbean that they passed over. Alvaro Jaramillo of Alvaro’s Adventures joins host Nate Swick to talk about it. He's spent time on all these islands and has a lot of insight on the birds there and the unique conservation challenges they face in the wake of these storms.
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| 0:49.4 | I am your host, Nate Swick, and as we move into the the sparrowy and the yellow-roomed warblery period of fall migration, |
| 0:57.0 | I hope that you all had a great season. I certainly did. At the time when the last episode was |
| 1:02.2 | publishing, I was out on the Outer Banks of North Carolina at the Wings Over Water Nature Festival. |
| 1:08.6 | It's this sort of a smaller festival, sort of local. I've been helping |
| 1:11.5 | out there for about the last five years or so, giving the standard why you should eBird, |
| 1:16.6 | spiel, and birdwalk, and leading a couple field trips. This year I did in Outer Banks Big Day, |
| 1:23.5 | where we go before dawn to just after desk along a section of the outer banks, about 40 miles top to bottom. |
| 1:30.1 | And we managed to find about 117 species, which was a new record for me for that trip. |
| 1:35.3 | So I was pretty stoked about that. |
| 1:37.4 | But the whole exercise with this big day illustrates sort of a bigger point I've noticed with birders that I thought was pretty interesting. |
| 1:45.0 | So we had six people on the trip, along with two leaders, myself and another birder. |
| 1:49.7 | I had suggested that we try and fit into as few cars as possible because, you know, it's more |
| 1:55.1 | fun and people tend to see more when there are more eyes on the birds around you and fewer |
| 2:00.2 | eyes on the road. And in the past, |
| 2:02.8 | it always seems like there's always one person, you know, he wants to go and drive themselves on |
| 2:06.7 | these sorts of trips. They always, you know, miss half the things we see. So that's, that's how it goes. |
| 2:11.1 | So we just wanted to try to avoid that as much as possible. So I said right before we got |
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