04-16: #BlackBirdersWeek and Its Impact with Corina Newsome & Tykee James

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Following birder Christian Cooper’s encounter with a racist white woman in Central Park on Memorial Day, a group of Black birders and naturalists created #BlackBirdersWeek, an online event to celebrate Black naturalists and scientists and to draw attention to the unique issues birding can pose to Black people. Co-organizers Corina Newsome and Tykee James join host Nate Swick to talk about what the week meant to them, and where we need to go from here.

Corina Newsome is an ornithology graduate student at Georgia Southern University and Tykee James is the government affairs coordinator for National Audubon, and the host of the podcast On Word for Wildlife.

Also, Nate looks at problematic honorific bird names and offers a way forward.

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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.
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0:22.2	brings deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of Ornithology into a single platform
0:27.3	where birders can answer all their life history questions for every species of bird they could
0:31.4	want. It is extraordinary. You can get more information at birdsof the world.org.
0:40.5	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:44.1	I'm your host, Nate Swick.
0:45.6	It has been another busy week in the world, if not especially in birding, but some actions
0:50.7	taken by organizations outside of the world of birding have got me thinking
0:56.3	about an issue that has been, one that I have used this platform and others to sort of rail
1:01.2	against before, and that is the issue of common bird names, specifically birds, named after
1:08.6	people. Because it, as has been made clear in the last couple of
1:13.6	years, people are fallible, especially those from the 17th and 18th centuries. And yes,
1:20.6	I was a difficult time for anyone that wasn't a landed white man, but we, from our vantage
1:26.9	point in the 21st century get to make
1:29.3	decisions about who we honor and how we honor them and amusing honor rather
1:35.3	than remember because having a bird named after you is an honor there's no
1:39.1	issue with remembering we have books and academics and museums for that but
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