02-17: Out There With the American Birding Expo with Bill Thompson III & Ben Lizdas

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The American Birding Expo is returning to the Philadelphia area once more next month. Running from 21-23 September, it is billed as “the world of birding in one place” and with exhibitors from 6 continents that is a pretty fair description. Expo-runners, Bill Thompson III and Ben Lizdas join me to talk about the Expo and what birders can expect in the way of exhibitors, workshops and keynoters. In addition to running the Expo, Bill is the editor of BirdWatcher’s Digest, and Ben runs the new optics retailer Redstart Birding. They are also the co-hosts of the podcast “Out There With the Birds", and we cover it all from the Global Big Year Challenge (tm) to the joys of matching people with the perfect pair of binoculars.

Plus, the feral cat problem and a bright spot thanks to our friends at the American Bird Conservancy.

Thanks to episode sponsor, the Partnership for International Birding, combining 200 scheduled tours to destinations around the world with unmatched support for local bird conservation.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding podcast is brought to by the Partnership for International
0:04.0	Birding, offering birders nearly 200 scheduled tours to destinations in the Americas, Asia,
0:09.5	Africa, and Oceania. Tour hallmarks include small groups of six to eight participants,
0:14.4	excellent lodging and logistics, proven bird finding with the best local guides, and unmatched
0:18.9	support for bird conservation. With your help, the partnership for international burning can add to the more than 80,000 acres
0:24.7	they've already helped to protect. To learn more, go to p.i.bird.com or call toll-free at 888-203-7464,
0:33.2	extension 912.
0:43.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Burning Podcast from the American Burning Association.
0:44.6	I am your host, Nate Swick, and if you are a member of your local burning listserv, you
0:52.5	know that there are certain topics that are verboten,
0:56.9	if or no other reason, and because no one needs their email folders filling up with three
1:01.1	dozen angry messages and 30 minutes about whatever, those topics tend to be politics, unscrupulous
1:08.9	photographers and the corollary to that baiting, though that may
1:13.1	mainly be a northern U.S. and Canada discussion.
1:15.8	And the third, the rail that I'm going to be approaching tiptoeing up to today, cats, especially
1:24.5	feral cats, and especially feral cat colonies. My friends, especially feral cat colonies.
1:29.2	My friends, the feral cat community is large and loud and litigious.
1:35.7	You only have to look at the recent dust up on the Google campus to see that.
1:39.3	Evidently, a feral cat colony maintained on the campus of Google's headquarters.
1:46.4	The cats and the colony were not staying on the grounds of the headquarters where they were being fed, but were
1:49.6	frequently straying over to a nearby park where they were effectively hunting burrowing
1:55.1	owls, which of course nest and burrows, which are on or under the ground. The point being
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