04-15: 2020 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s split and lump season again. And that means Dr. Nick Block, professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts and Secretary of the ABA’s Recording Standards and Ethics Committee, is back on the podcast. He joins host Nate Swick to talk Northwestern Crow, Great White Heron, messy duck genetics, and scrub-less jays.

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0:31.2	species of bird they could want. It is extraordinary. You can get more information at
0:34.9	birdsof the world.org.
0:46.8	Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:48.5	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:49.5	This is it.
0:57.7	This is the big American Ornithological society proposal episode with Nick Block.
1:00.5	We're going to get in the weeds, folks, so be ready.
1:05.5	It is on sort of the longer side, so I'm going to try to make these extra parts of the episode.
1:08.9	A little bit on the shorter side, so we have more time to spend with Nick. But before I completely move on, I do want to give one more shout to Black Birders Week,
1:13.9	in particular, the panel discussion that I mentioned in the introduction the last time out.
1:19.3	They were exactly as good as you would expect, eye-opening, ultimately inspiring.
1:26.7	I will leave a link to those panels in the show notes.
1:29.8	They were hosted by National Audubon. Please check them out if you have not done so already.
1:34.6	I am struck by the youth and the energy of the organizers and the participants of that week.
1:40.5	It feels like we're in a moment here, and I really hope we don't waste it, but we've all
1:45.4	got some work to do to get there. Those panels really help you crystallize that. So
1:50.9	definitely go check those out. To that end, I will be speaking to a couple of the organizers,
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