04-10: The Bird Way with Jennifer Ackerman

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Welcome to the new weekly American Birding Podcast!

Jennifer Ackerman is the New York Times best-selling author and essayist who wrote The Genius of Birds and a great many other science books. Her newest, out this week, is The Bird Way: A New Look at how Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think. It's a companion to that much loved earlier book, exploring the many creative, novel, and bizarre ways in which birds approach problems that they face and what they says about bird cognition and intelligence.

Also, a Cedar Waxwing story from Karina Li of Big Sky, Montana.

ABA members are eligible for a 15% discount to Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Birds of the World subscription. Log into your ABA account to get the code.

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0:00.0	I think we all know the pedigree of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology when it comes to bird resources,
0:04.8	and we at the ABA are excited to partner with the Cornell Lab of O to offer an amazing deal
0:09.5	exclusive to ABA members.
0:11.4	ABA members can now get a 15% discount to any new subscription to Cornell's amazing new
0:16.1	Birds of the World resource that is applicable for three years.
0:20.6	Birds of the World is a powerful resource
0:22.3	that brings deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of Ornithology into a single
0:26.7	platform where birders can answer all their life history questions for every species of
0:31.2	bird they could want. It is extraordinary. You can get more information at birds of the world.org.
0:42.2	Music You can get more information at birds of the world.org. Hello and welcome once more to the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association.
0:47.7	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:50.8	I can see that you're confused.
0:53.2	But Nate, I can hear you asking, it's sort of a dull roar I can hear on the horizon. We just had an episode last week. We're not supposed to hear from you for another seven days. This is, this is too much. It is too much bird content. I can't, I can't handle all this bird content. Oh no, my friends, you're going to
1:13.8	have to handle it. We are changing things up here at the American Burning Podcast Studios. We are
1:19.1	going weekly. This is our gift to you in this troubling, confusing, frustrating time.
1:26.3	And I suppose it's a little generous of me to assume that what you want to hear right now is more of me talking about birds, but that's what you're getting.
1:33.3	Congratulations.
1:34.3	I'm sorry, all responses are good responses.
1:37.3	But I had been wanting to go weekly for some time since, gee, since the beginning of this thing. I felt like there was enough
1:44.4	bird content out there to do so. And since we have gotten actually pretty good at streamlining
1:50.4	production, and since we're all at home and not traveling or otherwise doing other things,
1:55.3	as sort of a side note this week, I'd normally be at the biggest week in Ohio, getting my face
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