03-14: Letters from Bird Camp with Jennie Duberstein & Robert Buckert

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The ABA’s summer camps have long been an avenue for young birders to take in some excellent birding opportunities, to network with other young birders, and to learn about career opportunities in birding and ornithology. So many young people who have gone on to become influential in our community have come through ABA camps and other young birder camps, and many more consider it a seminal experience in their birding lives. Jennie Duberstein, ABA’s long-time Director of Camp Colorado and the Coordinator of the Sonoran Joint Venture bird conservation partnership, and Robert Buckert, a young birder and recent Camp Colorado attendee from Rochester, New York, join host Nate Swick to talk about the camp experience both as a counselor and as a camper.

Also, Piping Plovers in Chicago threaten to derail a music festival and some thoughts on playback.

Thanks to the 2019 Hawai'i Island Festival of Birds 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 the 2019 Hawaii Island Festival of Birds, Haakulamano, held October 24th through the 28th, 2019.
0:10.2	Because of its location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, Hawaii is an important stopover spot for many birds, and this year's festival celebrates those wanderers and migrants in addition to the unique native bird life of the Hawaiian islands.
0:22.1	Attendees can expect a field trip to some of the most unique landscapes in the world,
0:25.6	a bird fair, and entertaining talks from fascinating speakers.
0:28.7	You won't want to miss out.
0:30.0	Get more information at birdfesthawai.org.
0:43.2	This is the American Burning Podcast from the American Burning Association.
0:45.1	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:46.4	Hello and welcome.
0:50.5	It's summertime, which means it's time for two things.
0:54.0	Music festivals and breeding birds. And typically those things do not intersect in any
0:57.2	sort of interesting way, except this year in Chicago when a pair of piping plovers nested for
1:03.5	the first time in decades at Montrose Beach on the north side of the city, piping plovers,
1:08.6	especially those Great Lakes breeding birds,
1:11.4	are one of our most threatened shorebird species. So that was exciting, except that a big music
1:17.8	festival, big electronic dance music festival, was planned to be held on that very same beach
1:23.5	later this summer, and the presence of the plovers made that a little more complicated.
1:30.5	We at the ABA have sort of been following this story for a little bit.
1:33.9	Our own Greg Nees is a Chicago resident, a Montrose partisan, and he's been on it.
1:41.2	Montrose is, of course, you know, ostensibly a bird sanctuary, though the city has not
1:45.8	always managed it as well as some in the Chicago birding community feel like they could have,
1:51.9	especially with regard to off-leash dogs. That is another rant, perhaps for another time.
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