03-05: Martin Migration Magic with Kevin Fraser

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Spring is finally on its way and with it, the promise of returning migratory birds to the United States and Canada. Among the first to arrive every year, and beloved among birders and non-birders alike, is North America’s largest swallow, the Purple Martin. With their chatty and gregarious nature martins have inspired so many people, one of whom is Dr. Kevin Fraser of the Avian Behavior and Conservation Lab at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. A migration ecologist with a particularly interest in neotropical migrants, Kevin has worked with Purple Martins for years, and he joins host Nate Swick to talk about the uncommon lives of these common birds.

Also, congratulations to the ABA's 2019 Young Birders of the Year, don't forget to help the ABA-Leica Subadult Wheatears, and some thoughts on Old Media, New Media, and learning about birds.

Thanks to Zeiss Sports Optics for sponsoring this episode of the American Birding Podcast!

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Burning Podcast is brought to you by Zeiss Sports Optics.
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0:37.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American
0:40.7	Birding Association. I'm Nate Swick. I have a couple things I wanted to lead off with this time
0:46.1	around both related to young birders in some way, a topic near and dear to many of our hearts
0:51.6	here at the ABA. Most of us on staff were kid birders at one time,
0:56.6	as you might expect. It's hard to get bit by the birding bug early on and not try to make it
1:02.0	a professional goal, even if that path often ends up as windy as a fleshing Wilson snipe.
1:08.8	That is something I can certainly speak to. Anyway, we recently announced
1:12.0	the 2019 Young Birders of the Year, a pair of incredibly skilled and dedicated young burders
1:18.3	from opposite sides of the continent. That's 13-year-old Ronan Nicholson from Sacramento,
1:23.1	California in the younger group and 17-year-old Max Knutbar from Charlottesville, Virginia,
1:29.5	in the older group. Congratulations to both of you. To win that competition is no small feat.
1:37.4	And even the runners up had amazing submissions. There are some really, really impressive
1:43.6	young birders out there.
1:45.5	And if you are involved in a local Audubon chapter or bird club or state ornithological
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