03-19: Birding to Change the World with Trish O'Kane

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

All birders intuitively understand the value of birding, even if we're not so great as a community as expressing that value. Birding as a means for personal growth, and coming to grips with the changing world around us is an important part of why we enjoy this hobby. It's certainly a fascinating topic with a lot of rich veins to mine. It's something that Dr. Trish O'Kane of the University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources has thought a lot about. Her piece Of Fledglings and Freshmen was published recently in The New York Times, and she joins host Nate Swick to talk about her program "Birding to Change the World" and how birding can be a salve in this age of environmental anxiety.

Also, the most metal birds, and a few outstanding questions from a recent What's This Bird Live Q&A session.

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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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0:22.6	That is a win-win.
0:24.3	For more information, visit your local Zeiss dealer or go online to zyce.com slash sports optics.
0:35.5	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:40.0	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:42.7	I want to remind you right up top.
0:45.5	First thing that the ABA is going to be at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in November of this year,
0:52.0	and we are going to do a live show, a live podcast.
0:55.9	It will be fun, I promise you.
0:58.6	If it is not, you can take it out on me.
1:00.7	That's fine.
1:01.9	We do need some audience participation, though, and if you are an American Birding
1:05.6	podcast listener, and you are going to be at the festival in any capacity, and you'd be willing to help us out by being part of our show.
1:13.0	Please send me an email at podcast.ab.org.
1:16.6	We still have some spots available.
1:19.1	We're definitely interested in bird diversity around here,
1:22.0	a lot of diversity at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival.
1:24.7	That's why we're going.
1:26.5	And a fascinating study came out in the Journal of Geek Studies.
1:32.0	Earlier this month is called Bird Biodiversity in Heavy Metal Songs.
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