04-06: Bird Rehab Behind the Scenes with Ioana Seritan

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The world of bird rehabilitation is a unique aspect of the way that people interact with birds, and those that do the dirty work of helping wild birds get back to normal following scrapes with human things get an up close and personal look at birds that many of us just look at through binoculars or scopes. Birding Magazine Associate Editor Ioana Seritan does just that in her day job. She's a Wildlife Rehabilitation Technician at the International Bird Rescue in California’s Bay Area and she joins host Nate Swick to talk about bird rehab from the inside.

Also, the first of our Cedar Waxing stories and birding in the age of COVID-19.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American
0:09.8	Birding Association.
0:11.8	I am your host, Nate Swick, and boy, has a lot changed since the last time I talked to y'all.
0:21.6	Two weeks ago, my biggest issue with COVID-19
0:24.6	was that the autocorrect on my phone would change it to Corvid.
0:28.6	Now, merely 10 days later, my spring birding plans are completely upended.
0:34.6	A festival I was scheduled to speak at was canceled. I can't
0:38.4	imagine those that have not yet canceled are long for this world. It looks like, it looks like
0:44.3	2020 is going to be something of a lost year in terms of opportunities for the birding
0:50.3	world to get together. And to be honest, you know, that's, that's okay. I know that a lot of
0:57.7	people in our community skew older, skew into the higher risk groups. And I would ask you, if you
1:04.8	are listening to this podcast, to take all of this seriously and hunker down, you know,
1:10.0	limit your group activities for the
1:12.8	time being. I know I may not have just a ton of influence, but I hope that I can be as authoritative
1:18.8	as possible in suggesting these plans of action. Though burning itself can be done reasonably
1:24.5	under the guidelines issued by the World Health Organization and the
1:28.3	Center for Disease Control. So, so please continue to go birding. And let's be honest,
1:33.3	you know, time outside is good for you. And you should, you should keep doing it for as long as we
1:38.8	are able to do so. Yeah, even if we end up on lockdown, lots of people at feeders, you know, get some feeders.
1:45.7	Enjoy those. And in fact, I would certainly encourage Broder's to read the suggestions that we at
1:51.5	the ABA put out, that Ted Floyd put together on the ABA website. The link will be in the show
1:57.6	notes. Basically, you know, it's common sense stuff be smart look out for
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