04-04: The Importance of a Breeding Bird Atlas with Gabriel Foley

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Many states and provinces are increasingly interested in tackling a comprehensive survey of the birds in their regions. With the help help of technology, this ambitious undertaking is more achievable than ever. Maybe you’ve heard of Breeding Bird Atlases. Maybe you’ve participated in them in the past. But it’s easy to get involved with this important conservation and natural history initiative. Gabriel Foley is the atlas coordinator for the Maryland-DC Breeding Bird Atlas and he joins host Nate Swick to talk about what these atlases are trying to accomplish and how birders can get involved.

Also, Birding editor Ted Floyd recently returned from Mexico and thinks ABA birders should add it to their travel plans.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:12.2	I am your host, Nate Swink.
0:15.9	I want to start off with a quick note about last week's episode. Thanks to all of you who told me
0:22.8	that you appreciated it. Michael Redder told me that they have had a bunch of new people
0:27.7	joining the QBNA Queer Britters in North America Facebook group. That is fantastic. I love
0:34.2	connecting people with resources that they want, that they need, or just that they
0:38.6	appreciate having around.
0:41.0	I do usually get a few comments on the rare occasion we touch on these sorts of issues, both
0:46.0	supportive comments and critical comments, more the former than the latter, to be clear.
0:52.9	But I do want to state, you know, right off the bat,
0:55.7	why I think these things are important, why I think that they're so important that I would
0:59.5	cover them here in this podcast. So I, if you have not figured out, I am a, I am a straight white
1:07.5	male birder, which is hardly unusual in the burning community. It is sort of
1:11.6	the default experience for much of history. I think I'm a bit younger than the norm,
1:19.0	but I seem to be closing that gap with every passing year. Shout out to the inexorable
1:26.0	passage of time. I always appreciate the opportunity to talk with
1:30.9	people whose experiences in the burning community. I don't know. Why stop there? In the world
1:35.8	are different than mine. I am someone that likes to know things. And in that way, birding,
1:43.3	with its seemingly inexhaustible amount of things to learn
1:47.6	and to know is a very natural sort of pastime for me, that acquisition of knowledge of facts,
1:54.9	however relevant, frequently irrelevant, has been a running theme throughout my life and informs
2:00.3	a lot of the things that I
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