04-11: Birding Book Club - Big Year Narratives

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In recent years it has seemed as though doing an ABA Area Big Year means that you have to write a book about it, but the form's roots can be traced to Roger Tory Peterson himself. What makes them so popular? Are they travelogue, sporting conquest, adventure, or some combination? Or is the appeal as simple as wish fulfillment? 10,000 Birds media reviewer Donna Schulman and Birding magazine media review editor Frank Izaguirre join host Nate Swick to talk about Big Year narratives and what makes them great in the first edition of the ABP Birding Book Club.

Also, the USFWS disappoints with new rules for the Duck Stamp.

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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
0:04.3	resources. And we at the ABA are excited to partner with the Cornell Lab of O to offer an
0:09.0	amazing deal exclusive to ABA members. ABA members can now get a 15% discount to any new
0:14.6	subscription to Cornell's amazing new Birds of the World resource that is applicable for three
0:19.7	years. Birds of the World is a powerful
0:22.1	resource that brings deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of Ornithology into a single
0:27.0	platform where birders can answer all their life history questions for every species of bird they
0:31.7	could want. It is extraordinary. You can get more information at birdsof the world.org.
0:40.3	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:44.3	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:47.3	I don't know if you recall a few months ago, but there was some noise in the burning community
0:52.3	about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service making
0:54.3	changes to the duck stamp. In short, they wanted to mandate the inclusion of some sort of
1:00.9	hunting element on the stamp. This was proposed as a permanent change. I don't think I talked
1:07.4	about it on this podcast, but I did on the ABA's Twitter account.
1:11.7	Sometimes I get turned around as to where I bring these things up.
1:14.5	But essentially we, and I'm speaking as the organization, opposed this change.
1:21.2	Why?
1:21.8	Well, we have been encouraging birders to purchase duck stamps for many years because it is such an effective tool for protecting
1:27.5	bird habitat. Famously 98% of the purchase price goes directly to habitat acquisition. There's
1:33.7	shockingly little administrative overhead. I think you would be hard pressed to find a more
1:38.8	efficiently managed conservation program. And, you know, the duck stamp also serves as a ticket to national wildlife
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