02-09: At the Champions of the Flyway with the ABA-Leica Subadult Wheatears

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Champions of the Flyway is one the world's premiere birding events, a combination bird race/conservation fundraiser held annually in southern Israel that has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to help stop illegal bird poaching around the Mediterranean. While North American teams have participated in the event before, this was the first year that ABA helped sponsor a team, the ABA-Leica Subadult Wheatears, consisting of college-aged birders who all have connections to ABA young birder programs: Johanna Beam, Marky Mutchler, and Aidan Place.

Host Nate Swick joins the wheatears as driver and documentarian and brings you in the car with the wheatears as they tackle Champions for the first time.

Special thanks to Jonathan Meyrav and Leica's Jeff Bouton for their support in all matters, and to everyone who donated to help the Subadult Wheaters reach their conservation goals!

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0:00.0	Birding means adventure and the American Birding Association and Rockjumper Worldwide birding tours are at it again.
0:06.9	In July of 2019, we will explore Colombia, the ultimate paradise for birders with almost 2,000 species, including more hummingbird species than any other country.
0:18.0	We're excited together again to see our friends while also raising important
0:22.1	funds for the ABA's conservation and community initiatives. Pre-register now for what is certain
0:28.6	to be an amazing time. Tanagers, parrots, ant pittas, and the ABA family await you a short flight
0:35.2	away. Get more information at aBA.org slash travel
0:43.3	hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American
0:50.3	Birding Association I am your host Nate Swickick, and I am pretty excited about this episode.
0:56.5	It's easily the most ambitious one we've done, just in terms of lots of moving pieces coming
1:01.6	together. It may not be the sort of thing that we can put together every time, but it's the
1:05.7	sort of thing I'd like to do more often. So, you know, more on that in a bit. First, though, I have a couple of announcements
1:11.2	to make before we get started. When this episode goes live, I will be on my way to Ohio for
1:16.3	the biggest week in American Burning. The ABA will have a table at Mommy Bay, and a couple of us
1:21.1	will be around for at least the first weekend. Kelly, our headquarters manager, will stick
1:25.0	it out the whole time. And John, who is the technical
1:27.9	producer of this podcast and also does sales and marketing, will be there as well. I will be around
1:33.8	the first weekend. So if you see me out on the boardwalk or anywhere, feel free to say hello.
1:38.7	And of course, stop by the ABA booth table, place, you know, wherever we are, and say hi.
1:45.9	Also, if you are a member of the ABA and you received a copy of the February issue of birding magazine that did not
1:51.1	include the EEV bird of the year stickers, please let us know. I have a link to a form in the show
1:58.0	notes that you can follow and get that fixed. We want you to have your
2:01.6	stickers, but sometimes the machine that shoots them into the magazines misses and
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