02-01: 2018 Bird of the Year Artist Doug Pratt

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When we chose Iiwi as the 2018 Bird of the Year, there was really only one person we could ask to do the artwork. H. Douglas Pratt is a bird artist, author, and researcher, currently based in Raleigh, North Carolina, whose work has been featured in the National Geographic Field Guide to Birds of North America, among other works, and he wrote wrote and illustrated The Field Guide to Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Doug spoke with host Nate Swick about the cover art he created for the February issue of Birding magazine, as well as what he's seen in his 50 years of working on the Hawaiian Islands with Hawaii's native birds.

Also, new contributor Alain Clavette debuts on the podcast, with a field interview with Peter Gadd, a New Brunswick birder who, for the last few weeks, has hosted a very lost thrush.

Thanks to episode sponsor, the Port Aransas Whooping Crane Festival on the Gulf Coast in Texas. Experience the last naturally-occurring population of North America's largest bird at its traditional winter home.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by the Port Oranzus Wooping Crane Festival,
0:04.9	February 22nd through 25th, 2018 in Port Aransas, Texas.
0:09.5	Come see one of North America's most spectacular and most endangered birds in their traditional
0:13.5	winter home along the Texas Gulf Coast.
0:16.0	Visitors can expect workshops and seminars, birding and nature tours, and trips to see the world's
0:20.6	last naturally
0:21.4	occurring population of whooping cranes, with experts from Moranzas National Wildlife Refuge,
0:25.8	Wood Buffalo National Park, and more. Online registration ends February 19th. For more information,
0:31.0	go to whoopingcranefestival.org.
0:40.3	It's wintertime you're Hello, Hello, happy new year in Delaware.
0:43.3	Time for ABA's bird of the year.
0:48.3	About ABA's bird of the year.
0:52.3	Welcome.
0:53.3	Hello, happy new year list, and welcome back to another episode of the American Birding Association's American Burning podcast.
1:01.1	I'm your host, Nate Swick, and this is the first episode of 2018.
1:06.5	And as is our custom, if the thing you've done twice can actually be a custom, I guess that's the
1:12.7	bare minimum for a custom.
1:15.3	Anyway, as we did last January, the first episode of this year is given nearly wholly over to
1:20.7	the new ABA bird of the year.
1:25.0	And we went and did it this year. We went for a big splash, a Pacific typhoon-esque
1:31.4	sort of impact. We decided to go ahead and throw down with regard to Hawaii's inclusion into
1:37.2	the ABA area and make the ABA bird of the year a species that wasn't even on the ABA checklist
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