02-05: The Joy of Birdfeeding with Jim Carpenter

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jim Carpenter opened the very first Wild Birds Unlimited store near his home in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1981. At the time it was one of very few bird specific retail outlets in the country, and since then, Wild Birds Unlimited has grown to include more than 300 stores across the US and Canada. His new book, The Joy of Birdfeeding, The Essential Guide to Attracting and Feeding our Backyard Birds, was published late last year. Jim joins host Nate Swick to talk about how Wild Birds Unlimited came to be, and what he thinks are the most important things people should know about feeding birds.

Also, Greg Neise and Ted Floyd are back to talk about the most magical sounds of spring, duck songs. Or rather, the things that ducks do that aren't quacks.

If you think the yellow Northern Cardinal was great, check out this yellow Scarlet Tanager! Come birding with yours truly in Cuba this fall!

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0:00.0	Want to do some birding in Cuba this fall? Join me, ABA birding podcast host Nate Swick, for an
0:05.6	ABA trip to Cuba. We'll see Cuban Trogan, Cuban Tote, Cuban Crow, and a bunch of other birds
0:12.5	that don't have Cuba in the name. Ten days, 11 nights, September 8 through 18th. I'm excited. I would
0:18.5	love for you to join me and Arturo, Kurt Connell, who
0:21.0	literally wrote the book on Cuban Birds. Get more information at events.a.org.
0:30.5	Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:36.5	I'm your host, Nate Swick,
0:38.5	and have you guys, you guys heard about this yellow cardinal? It's a northern cardinal,
0:46.6	but it's yellow. That's it. It's yellow. I don't know if you heard, but it's been in the news
0:53.5	a bit.
0:55.0	Yellow we're supposed to be red.
0:56.2	That's the thing.
0:57.5	Far be for me to poke a little fun about how people interact with birds,
1:01.4	I'm probably literally the last person they should do that.
1:03.8	But like many birders, I imagine I've been a little befuddled,
1:07.6	a little bewildered at the extent to which this thing took off.
1:12.6	Speaking for myself, I very quickly went from, oh, that's pretty cool to, oh my God, why am I still
1:19.4	hearing about this thing? It is, after all, a northern cardinal, perhaps the most familiar feeder
1:24.5	bird for a great many people in the U.S. and Canada. You folks at West, obviously, you don't get to enjoy them, but the whole of the eastern
1:31.4	two-thirds of the continent does, just an element of familiarity at play.
1:35.2	I think that's a big part of why this thing went nuts the way it did.
1:38.6	Do not sleep on the appeal of Cardinals among the general public.
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