02-12: 2018 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Another year, another trip around the world of bird taxonomy courtesy of the American Ornithological Society’s classification committee. That group of bird scientists informs the field guides and lists we birders use every day and they are once again making those decisions presently. As we have before, we lean again on Dr. Nick Block, professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts and Secretary of the ABA’s Recording Standards and Ethics Committee, He joins host Nate Swick to help break down some of 2018’s taxonomy proposals up for consideration by the AOS.
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| 0:46.7 | I'm your host, Nate Swick, and welcome to the summer. |
| 0:49.6 | It's officially summer, at least the meteorological summer. The birding summer is the shortest season |
| 0:56.6 | of the year as spring is arguably still going on in the far north and it won't be long now |
| 1:00.7 | before shorebirds start hitting back south. So really you've got three or four weeks of summer |
| 1:06.9 | in the burning world, so enjoy it while you can. This is always a fun time of year for me |
| 1:12.2 | because the first part of June means I get to run my two breeding birds survey routes. There's |
| 1:18.0 | nothing particularly novel about either of them. You can probably name the 75 most common |
| 1:24.2 | breeding birds in the southeast United States, and from year to year, I will find between |
| 1:28.3 | 62 and 67 of them on both of the roots. But I love the fact that there's this long history |
| 1:35.2 | attached to them, not just mine, but all the people who counted these roots before me. |
| 1:40.6 | And because I'm a little bit of a list keeper, and I mean that separately from what we think of as being a |
| 1:47.2 | lister, finger quotes there. I don't care too much about my ABA list. I care a little bit more about |
| 1:52.9 | my state list, but not so much that I'm in the car as soon as something new is found. |
| 1:57.9 | But man, I keep lists. I always have since I was little. Before birds, |
| 2:02.7 | it was sports teams and herpes of my state and national parks. And it's just the way that my |
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