03-11: Birds and Board Games with Elizabeth Hargrave

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

What do birding and board games have in common? More than you’d expect! Birder and game designer Elizabeth Hargrave has made it a mission to bring these two things together and her bird-themed game Wingspan, released earlier this year to great reviews, does just that.

Wingspan has been covered by the New York Times, Smithsonian, and Science magazine among other places and has managed to elicit interest at a time when enthusiasm among the general public for both birding and board games are at an all-time high. She joins host Nate Swick to talk about both.

Also, Birding editor Ted Floyd shares some thoughts about an extraordinary Western Tanager phenomenon.

You can find the American Birding Podcast listener survey that I talk about in the episode here!

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 Birding Podcast is brought to by Zeiss Sports Optics, a leading manufacturer of high-quality birding optics and advocates for young birder programs, including the ABA's own young birder camps.
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0:19.9	Plus, you're helping to support amazing experiences for young birders. That is a price point that works for you. Plus, you're helping to support
0:21.2	amazing experiences for young birders. That is a win-win. For more information, visit your local
0:26.3	Zyce dealer or go online to zyce.com slash sports optics.
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American
0:40.4	Birding Association.
0:41.4	I'm your host, Nate Swick, and I am back from the festival circuit.
0:48.0	Two festivals, I suppose that's the bare minimum for a circuit.
0:52.5	You're sort of near each other, but you know, the birding and the burtering
0:55.5	were excellent at both. In fact, it is the burtering that makes these things so special,
1:02.6	at least in my mind. I saw a lot of friends. I met a lot of people for the first time. Some of those
1:07.7	people agreed to help out on the inaugural American Birding podcast live.
1:13.6	I hope you listened to that.
1:15.4	I'm thinking of Jordan Rudder, David Sibley, plus Eliana Ardela Ardela of Burning Webas, who has actually been a guest before.
1:22.9	But this was the first time I'd actually met her in person.
1:26.0	So, you know, I hope if you're a regular listener of the podcast, you got to that panel discussion that they were all a part of. They all
1:31.1	had really, really interesting things to say about the burden community and the importance
1:37.0	of mentorship and how that concept has changed in the last decade or so with the increasing
1:42.5	relevance of social media. It was a great conversation.
1:45.6	I was thrilled to be a part of it.
1:47.1	I was especially thrilled to be able to pull off that live show, which was something I had
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