03-13: Bird Collision Basics with Heidi Trudell

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Birders love to watch the birds at their feeders from the comfort of their own home, but those windows we depend on can cause quite a few problems for birds, something that Heidi Trudell is all too aware of. She is the creator of the Facebook group Dead Birds for Science and the website Just Save Birds, and an advocate for birds safe glass and construction, as well as getting people comfortable with how their action or inaction affects the birds around us. All of which, she hopes, helps make the world a safer place for birds.

You can find an annotated list of all the products the Heidi talks about on her website, and help support her work at her Patreon site.

Also, the AOS Classification Committee decisions are out, with some interesting decisions and non-decisions. Plus, why you should get involved in the Breeding Bird Survey.

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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0:25.7	Zyce dealer or go online to zyce.com slash sports optics.
0:34.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Burning podcast from the American Burning Association.
0:39.9	I am, as always, your host, Nate Swick.
0:43.7	The American Ornithological Society Classification Committee decisions are out.
0:49.6	You might remember that Nick Block and I talked about those proposals in the last episode.
0:53.5	Sounds like we were just in the nick of time for that. As usual, there were some expected decisions and
1:00.5	some unexpected decisions. The White Wing scoters split went through. We talked about that one.
1:06.8	I think someone is going to find a velvet scotor, which is the European subspecies, full species now.
1:13.8	Somewhere in the northeast part of the ABA area, maybe Atlantic Canada, maybe New England,
1:19.1	sometime in the not too distant future now that people are going to be really looking for them.
1:23.9	The Fulmar split did not go through, though Nick made a pretty compelling case as to why that might be premature. In short, you know, it was based on mitochondrial DNA, not nuclear DNA. The committee likes to have both. Can't complain too much about that. The big question was whether that committee was going to do anything about these common name changes that were on the agenda this time around.
1:48.7	They did not.
1:50.0	They punted, which is what they have done in the past when presented with, you know, admittedly less charged common name changes.
1:57.5	So McCown's Longspur is still McCown's Longspur, but it is not McCown-Long-Spur.
2:04.8	I understand why they didn't make the change, even if that understanding is more or less based
2:09.5	in a sort of cynical interpretation of the committee's doings. I think it would behove the
2:15.5	classification committee to come up with a strategy for dealing with
2:19.2	things like this, because I don't think they're going to go away. Any interested party can make a
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