03-06: Birding Means Business in Colombia with John Myers

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Birders know the South American nation of Colombia as the most bird-rich country on the planet, but Colombia’s reputation among the general public is unfortunately somewhat more mixed. That is something that the Colombian government and non-profits who work there are trying to fix, as Colombia is heavily playing up its bona fides as a travel destination. Luckily for nature-lovers, birding is a big part of that strategy and John Myers of Conservation International has been working to build advise ecotourism initiatives in Colombia that promote conservation and lay the groundwork for an organic birding culture, and he joins host Nate Swick to talk about the amazing things going on in the biodiversity capital of the world. We mention the film, The Birders, as a great example of how birding has taken off in Colombia.

If this episode whets your appetite to visit Colombia, join us at our Colombia event this summer!

Also, more birding in the news, birding board games, and a new birding web-series!

Thanks to the Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival for their support of the American Birding Podcast.

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0:00.0	This episode of the American Birding podcast is sponsored by the Gray's Harbor Shorebird Festival held May 3rd through 5th, 2019 in Hokwium, Washington.
0:07.8	Come celebrate the spring shoreboard migration with the Grace Harbor Audubon Society at one of the great Pacific flyway stopover spots, see hundreds of thousands of plovers, turnstones, sandpipers, dowchers, and more as they rest and feed around hoquium and the Graves harbor national wildlife refuge.
0:21.9	It is a real spectacle and an amazing natural phenomenon.
0:25.4	It's not just about the birds.
0:26.7	Birding Without Borders author Noah Stricker is the keynote speaker this year.
0:29.8	For more information, go to Shorebird Festival.com or call 36056082.
0:35.4	Music 0.560-8162. Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Burning Podcast from the American
0:45.3	Burning Association.
0:46.3	I'm Nate Swick, and I am a sucker for articles about birding in large news publications or media outlets.
0:55.0	If you are a regular listener to this podcast, you probably know that by now, they are catnip to me.
1:02.0	And as an unofficial historian of this genre, I am particularly interested in the fact that these articles and essays continue to get more earnest, more sincere, more feeling
1:14.8	as though they come from burders that I know and interact with regularly. They're created
1:19.8	internally by people from inside our community, written to an audience who doesn't quite get
1:25.3	it maybe, but at least is pretty good sports about it.
1:27.8	Rather than the sort of birders flock, hard, look at these nerds chasing a rare bird.
1:33.6	Outsiders written for outsiders sort of thing.
1:37.5	There was one that was kicking around on the birdosphere about birding and anxiety, which is a kind of a neat thing to see.
1:43.4	I know that there have been a lot of
1:44.8	studies recently about how time spent outdoors is beneficial to your mental health. And I know a
1:50.0	lot of us in the birding world can certainly attest to the benefits of some regular binocular time.
1:55.3	I probably spend an unhealthy amount of time on social media as a result of my ABA responsibilities.
2:01.1	And I know that it's always great to unplug for a little, my brain works better.
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