03-22: Bird Glamour with Lisa Buckley
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
How many of you out there have dressed as a bird for Halloween? Many, we're sure! But there is obviously so much more that can be done in the realm of bird costuming, and Dr. Lisa Buckley has taken bird inspired cosplay to its logical extreme. In her day job she is a vertebrate paleontologist in British Columbia but on the side she has created Bird Glamour, eye makeup inspired by a whole host of birds. She's a singularly appropriate person to chat with on Halloween and she joins host Nate Swick to talk about how birds inspire a very unique form of art.
Also, the ear-splitting White Bellbird and your bird costumes at the blog!
Thanks to Turismo de Lisboa for sponsoring this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the American Birding Podcast is brought to you by Tirezmo de Lisboa. |
| 0:05.0 | The Iberian Peninsula offers some of the best birding in Europe, and Lisbon, Portugal is an excellent gateway to it all. |
| 0:12.0 | Located at the mouth of the Tagus River, with exceptional birding just a short distance away, Lisbon is a paradise for migratory waterbirds, with wintering flamingos, storks, raptors, and more. |
| 0:22.6 | And it's one of the most affordable cities in Europe. |
| 0:25.0 | For more information on what you can expect from Portugal's capital, be it cultural or birding highlights, go to visitlesboa.com. |
| 0:42.7 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast, the American Birding Association. |
| 0:44.0 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:46.5 | And if you have listened at all to this podcast, you know that I am a sucker for bird-related |
| 0:53.3 | stories that make it through to general public |
| 0:57.0 | news outlets. It is a recurring theme here in this podcast. I am a firm advocate for these |
| 1:04.5 | sorts of media, even if they don't always get the bird stuff entirely ripe. For the most |
| 1:09.1 | part, they do a pretty good job. I will say |
| 1:11.3 | it feels like they're getting better about that. But there was a dozy this week as a result of a |
| 1:17.0 | paper published in the journal Current Biology. Here are a few of the headlines that made their way |
| 1:23.1 | to general interest media outlets. From USA Today, the world's loudest birds attract mates |
| 1:31.2 | by screaming in their face. |
| 1:34.3 | From PBS, world's loudest bird flirts |
| 1:38.5 | by screaming in your face. |
| 1:39.6 | There's a theme here. |
| 1:41.0 | The New York Times, the loudest bird in the world has a song like a pile driver. |
| 1:48.4 | That bird, of course, is the white bellbird. Apparently, it has a very good publicist or a bad |
| 1:54.1 | publicist. It's hard to say. The song itself, which, you know, you might want to take your earbuds |
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