03-26: The ABA at 50
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The end of 2019 means that we’re coming to the end of the ABA’s 50th, looking forward to the our next 50. Any big milestone encourages taking stock of where you’ve been, where you’re going. And here at the ABA we’ve been doing a lot of that internally, and in our various publications this year. But to sort of close the book on these 50 years we bring you a conversation about the ABA at 50 and beyond with a couple people listeners to the podcast are no doubt familiar with. ABA President Jeff Gordon and Birding editor Ted Floyd join host Nate Swick to talk about the past, the present, and the future of birding and the ABA.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jeffrey Gordon, president of the American Burning Association and executive producer of the podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I'd like to say thank you for a terrific third year here at the American Birding Podcast |
| 0:11.3 | and a wonderful 50th anniversary year at the American Birding Association. |
| 0:16.3 | We depend on your memberships and your donations, particularly at years end, to be able to offer |
| 0:23.1 | you great programs like the American Birding Podcast. |
| 0:27.2 | Please give what you can at aBA.org slash give or by calling us at 800,850-2473. |
| 0:41.5 | Thank you so much and good birding and happy new year. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Burning podcast from the American Burning Association. I'm your host, Nate Swick, and this is it. The end of our third |
| 0:56.3 | year, the last episode of the year. And before I throw it over to the interview, which is a good one, |
| 1:02.9 | I think, to end our 50th year on. I just want to pause for a second and thank all of you who |
| 1:09.5 | have listened to us this year, |
| 1:11.2 | previous years. Maybe this is your first episode, especially those of you who are able to see |
| 1:15.6 | us at our two live shows at the biggest week in American Birding and the Rio Grande Valley |
| 1:20.1 | Birding Festival this year. Thanks for all of it. It means a lot to me that so many people have |
| 1:25.1 | gotten excited about this project and this podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | So thank you. |
| 1:30.0 | I hope to run into all of you in 2020. |
| 1:34.6 | You know, 2018 had its ups and downs for sure, but I know for me, the birds and birding |
| 1:41.3 | and the birding community were, by and large, a wonderful part of it. |
| 1:45.0 | I really hope that you can say the same. And I hope that whatever holiday traditions you celebrate, |
| 1:49.9 | that they are great fun and that birding plays a part, even if it's just a small one. |
| 1:55.1 | So let's get right to it. On the show today, I welcome my colleagues, ABA President Jeffrey |
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