02-13: Voices from The Biggest Week- Women and ABA Big Years

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For decades, the ABA Big Year has been a man's game, but in the last few years that has changed, with more women than ever tackling the grueling endeavor in a number of creative and personally enriching ways. This year's Biggest Week in American Birding featured a panel discussion that included five women who have taken on Big Years: Laura Keene of Ohio, who did an ABA Big Year in 2016 which, along with three other birders, broke the previous record and set a new standard for a photographic Big Year, Lynn Barber of Alaska, who was the first woman to crack 700 species in a year, Laura Erickson of Minnesota, who did a Lower 48 Conservation Big Year in 2013, Nancy McAllister from Maryland who did a "Mom’s Big Year" in 2016, and, of course, Yve Morrell of Florida, she of the most recent Big Year in 2017.

Thanks to Kim Kaufman of The Biggest Week in American Birding for allowing us to produce this panel as a podcast, and thanks to our episode sponsor, the Hawai'i Festival of Birds held this September on the big island.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by the third annual Hawaii
0:04.2	Festival of Birds, held September 14th through 17th at Keahoe Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii.
0:10.5	This year's festival theme is back from the brink, Hawaii's battle against extinction,
0:14.9	experience fascinating keynote lectures about efforts to protect Hawaii's birds and habitats,
0:19.3	film festival, bird fair, and field
0:21.5	trips that allow you to personally experience them of Hawaii's most extraordinary bird species,
0:26.6	including the EEV, ABA's 2018 bird of the year. It's right there on the festival logo after
0:31.4	all. You can learn more and register for the festival at birdfesthawai.org.
0:41.1	Hello. for the festival at birdfesthawaii.org. Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American
0:44.9	Birding Association. I'm your hosinate Swick, and we have a special episode for you
0:50.7	this time around. Well, a different sort of episode would be better to say.
0:56.7	They're all special to me. They're all my children. In this episode, we have prepared a panel
1:02.7	discussion held at last month's biggest week in American Birding. It is the women and
1:08.2	ABA Big Year panel featuring five women who have all tackled a big year of some fashion in the last few years. Thanks especially go out to Kim Kaufman and all of the exceptional people at the biggest week for coming up with such a great idea for a panel and allowing us to reproduce it here for you as a podcast. I think you will really
1:30.5	enjoy it. There are some great insights into big gear birding from all of the people involved.
1:35.0	So I'll try to keep my part of the episode on the short side to get all of that in. It does run a
1:41.7	little bit longer than our typical episodes do. But I wanted to announce
1:46.1	the winners of the book drawing that I introduced in the last episode. So congratulations to
1:52.7	Elliot Nelson and Gail Shore, the random number generator randomly chose you and your books
2:00.5	are in the mail right now. Thanks for listening to
2:02.4	the podcast. So the second in our Voices from the Biggest Week annual series, the women and
2:08.6	ABA big year panel is coming up. I'll get you set up and introduce you to the panelists
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