02-03: More than Birds with Jody Allair & Frank Izaguirre

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

One of the major birding trends of the 21^st Century has been a move away from a sole interest in birds. This is facilitated by an ever increasing library of field guides to various taxa, smartphone apps that make it easier than ever to identify and catalog the things we see, and a general nature aesthetic that has become a bigger part of how we interact with the natural world. In this episode host Nate Swick welcomes two birders who have whole-heartedly thrown themselves into this new reality. Jody Allair is researcher and environmental educator with Bird Studies Canada at Long Point, Ontario, and Frank Izaguirre is a writer and naturalist, currently in Morgantown, West Virginia. His Tools of the Trade article, All the Wonders of the World: iNaturalist and Birding is featured in the latest issue of the ABA’s Birding magazine.

Jody and Frank share a ton of great resources for birders looking to expand their nature knowledge at The ABA Blog.

Also in this episode, opinions on the proposal to change the name of Gray Jay to Canada Jay. You can help us out by participating on our listener demographic survey here.

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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
0:20.1	world's last
0:20.9	naturally occurring population of whooping cranes, with experts from Aransas National Wildlife
0:25.1	Refuge, Wood Buffalo National Park, and more. Online registration ends February 19th. For more
0:30.5	information, go to whoopingcranefestival.org.
0:43.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:46.0	I am, as always, your host, Nate Swick.
0:52.6	Congratulations are in order for the bird team in the big football game last weekend.
0:55.9	From everything I have heard about the stadium in Minneapolis where the game was played. I suppose we're lucky that the Philadelphia Eagles didn't get confused
1:01.4	by all the reflective surfaces and fly, walk into the windows. I trust that the Philly
1:08.1	traveling staff got there early and placed a bunch of football players-shaped
1:12.5	stickers on the windows so that they would, you know, they would know to avoid them.
1:17.2	Really smart move on their part, I think.
1:19.0	I hope they also moved any indoor plants away from the windows.
1:22.3	That can be a real problem as well.
1:23.7	The last thing we needed was the NFC champs to hurt themselves on the way into the stadium.
1:31.2	That's not to say there weren't some losses. Eagles backup kicker Camus, Grugier Hill, was scared
1:37.6	by a big hawk. He ran into the glass by the west entrance. He was found by some Patriot fans
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