02-02: The Nomadic Nature of Snow Buntings with Emily McKinnon

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It’s the time of year when Arctic birds are moving south into the populated parts of the continent, and citizen scientists are there to meet them, trap them, and use cutting edge technology to track their movements. It’s a testament to our interest in nomadic tundra birds that that could apply to a couple different projects, but this time around we are talking about Snow Buntings and the Canadian Snow Bunting Network. Dr. Emily McKinnon is a researcher at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and the administrator of this project, she talks with host Nate Swick about about the fascinating things they've discovered about these consummate winter birds.

Also mentioned in this episode, A Jonathan Franzen essay on the Year of the Bird from National Geographic and a New York Times essay on owl politics.

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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
0:03.1	Whoping Crane Festival, February 22nd through 25th, 2018 in Port Aransas, Texas.
0:09.1	Come see one of North America's most spectacular and most endangered birds in their traditional
0:13.2	winter home along the Texas Gulf Coast.
0:15.6	Visitors can expect workshops and seminars, birding and nature tours, and trips to see the
0:19.7	world's last naturally
0:21.0	occurring population of whooping cranes, with experts from Aransas National Wildlife
0:24.7	Refuge, Wood Buffalo National Park, and more. Online registration ends February 19th. For more
0:30.1	information, go to whoopingcranefestival.org.
0:42.3	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:43.4	I am your host, Nate Swick, and I have a small favor to ask of our listeners that is not
0:48.3	necessarily related to birds.
0:51.5	We have seen a lot of growth in listeners in the last few months. It's been very exciting.
0:56.1	And we're sort of at the point where we are interested in exploring some of our hosts,
1:00.6	advertising options. I know, I know ads, yuck. But a few ads here there will definitely
1:06.5	help us cover various costs for the podcast, making sure contributors have good equipment
1:10.5	compensating those of us who work on this for the time. Making sure contributors have good equipment,
1:13.7	compensating those of us who work on this for the time it takes to produce it.
1:15.0	You know how these things go.
1:19.6	So they want some demographic info on our listeners,
1:24.8	and we need 250 people to fill out a survey and ad survey.
1:26.1	I'll put the link in the show notes.
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