02-11: Birding is My Favorite Video Game with Rosemary Mosco

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a naturalist or a nature lover on social media chances are you have come across Bird & Moon, an exceptionally fun series of webcomics filled with colorful and endearing and accurate nature themes. Bird & Moon is the creation of New England-based artist and writer Rosemary Mosco. Her new book, Birding is my Favorite Video Game, is a collection of many of her most viral creations and a lot more. Rosemary joins host Nate Swick to talk birds, video games, science communication, and the fun of gross-out science.

Also, a watershed moment in the history of birds in media, and the yanny-laurel theory of bird mnemonics.

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0:00.0	The ABA is joining with tropical birding for the first time for an extraordinary adventure in Thailand in 2019.
0:07.0	This is Thailand birding with a camera.
0:09.0	So if you are a photographer that likes birds or a birder who likes to take a few photos, this is a trip with you in mind.
0:14.0	And there are no shortage of incredible photo subjects in Southeast Asia, stuff like sunbirds, pitta, incredible pheasants, spoon-billed sandbiper,
0:23.5	some of the coolest-looking birds on the planet. Plus, mammals, culture, and amazing food
0:28.6	with ABA friends. This is setting up to be a really exceptional time. Have I interested
0:33.2	you yet? It's your mouth watering for bird photography and the real deal pad tie. Get more information
0:39.1	at ABA.org slash travel.
0:44.7	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American
0:48.5	Birding Association. I am your host, Nate Swick, and I want to take a little time up top to talk about a moment that I
0:55.5	think you might have missed, especially if you don't watch prestige cable TV. But I think it was
1:02.5	a watershed moment in the history of birding and bird representation in the media.
1:09.2	I don't think I'm overselling it. It is that big, much bigger than
1:12.8	that movie is out now that features the Millennium Falcon that really isn't even a Falcon.
1:17.9	Thanks for nothing. Disney and George Lucas. Anyway, thanks Meredith Miles and Nick Lund,
1:23.6	The Birdist on Twitter at Meredith C. Miles at The Birdist for sharing it. That's where I saw it.
1:29.2	And I want to share it with you all. It comes from the recent HBO adaptation of Ray Bradbury's
1:36.2	dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451. At one point, Guy Montag, the main character played by Michael
1:44.0	B. Jordan, walks past the sort of futuristic screen-heavy city center, and there's a video playing with a bald eagle overlaid with an authoritarian message.
1:54.6	And, well, I'll just play the scene here.
2:05.3	Yeah. play the scene here. Did you hear it?
2:07.1	Did you get it?
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