04-07: Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist with Don Kroodsma

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It’s hard to step out your backdoor these days without being overwhelmed by birdsong. Spring is easing northward across the continent and with it, an increase in the activities of birds. Few people know this like ornithologist and author Donald Kroodsma, professor emeritus or ornithology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the author of a great many books on bird vocalizations. He joins host Nate Swick today to talk about his most recent book, Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist just in time for the annual explosion of birdsong in the northern hemisphere.

Also, is birding seeing a renaissance in the COVID era? And more Cedar Waxwing stories from our listeners.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast.
0:09.8	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:12.0	I hope your self-isolation is going well.
0:15.4	I hope you are still finding birds at home or in your local patch um one of the more interesting aspects of all this
0:24.1	isolation i think has been the way in which birding is sort of having a day here i think it has to do
0:31.5	with people looking for hobbies they can participate in with this covid-19 reality.
0:38.3	I have seen a fair number of regular news outlets posting stories about birdwatching
0:43.3	in the last couple weeks.
0:45.3	One of them came from a friend of the ABA, Nick Lund.
0:48.3	He wrote it for Slate.
0:49.3	It was called You Have No Choice but to become a backyard birdwatcher.
0:53.3	There was one in The Guardian with the title, the wildlife travel drama on your doorstep, which, I know, seems like it's overselling it a little bit.
1:03.5	But, you know, you got to do what you got to do.
1:04.8	I understand how these headlines work.
1:06.6	My colleague Ted Floyd shared one on the ABA's internal slack called Coronavirus Quarantine is a great time to get into birding.
1:14.2	The Washington Post had something.
1:15.7	Obviously, Audubon had something.
1:17.3	The Times of India, Times of India had a thing about bird watching during this self-isolating COVID-19 thing.
1:25.1	ABA President Jeff Gordon was quoted in an article from W. H. Y. Y. Y., in
1:30.1	Philadelphia. Chris Packham, who our UK listeners might know, he hosts the BBC program Springwatch
1:36.8	over in Great Britain, has created a self-isolating bird club group on Facebook. That's worth checking out if you're looking for more
1:45.9	resources while you're sitting around. I think they're going to do a kind of a big bird count
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