03-01: 2019 Bird of the Year Artist Megan Massa

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Multimedia bird artist Megan Massa is the latest artist to create the Bird of the Year cover art, an auspicious list that includes David Sibley, Julie Zickefoose, and Louise Zemaitis, among others. Her experiences have run the gamut from the hobby side of birding to birds research to art and her creation, a Red-billed Tropicbird soaring over a boat full of birders will be featured on the cover of the February 2019 issue of Birding magazine. It's the first Bird of the Year work to exist completely in a digital realm, a fascinating process that allowed Megan to add some cool artistic easter eggs. She joins host Nate Swick to talk bird art, research, and the needs of college-aged birders.

Plus, a good-bye to the Iiwi, a bird that asked all of us to learn a little more about Hawaiian native birds.

Thanks to the Space Coast Birding Festival for sponsoring this episode. We'll be there! Will you?

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0:00.0	Come join the ABA, the Space Coast Birding Festival in Titusville, Florida, January 23rd through the 28th, 2019.
0:06.7	It's one of the largest birding in wildlife festivals in the U.S.
0:09.2	and one of the best places to go birding in January.
0:11.6	Florida scrub jays, snail kites, loads of wondering waterfowl at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
0:16.3	We can't wait to see you there.
0:18.0	Get more information at SCBWF.org.
0:25.4	It's winter time here in Delaware.
0:33.2	Time for ABA's bird of the year.
0:35.7	It's funny about ABA's bird of the year. I know about ABA's birth of the year.
0:41.7	Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast for the American Burning Association.
0:45.6	I am your host Nate Swick, and welcome to season three.
0:49.6	I mean, we don't really do seasons here, but this is the first episode of what will be our third full year
0:56.2	of doing this podcast happy new year list and happy new bird of the year which if you've been
1:01.7	following us on the social media as you know is red build tropic bird which is our logo bird
1:07.8	an appropriate choice for our 50th anniversary, our golden jubilee,
1:12.5	if we were royalists or not, by the way, unless we're talking about royal turn, king eider,
1:17.8	emperor goose, in which case, sign us up for the monarchy.
1:21.5	But that logo bird is red-billed, tropic bird, mostly stylized now.
1:26.0	But in older ABA logos, it was more ornithologically accurate, which we love around here.
1:31.6	This is our first bird of the year that doesn't actually breed in the ABA area, which
1:37.1	admittedly is a little odd.
1:39.2	But that sort of goes back to the historical anomaly that was the choice of this species
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