04-18: Conservation, Cooperation, and NABCI with Judith Scarl

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to bird conservation in North America, there are so many groups that need to be engaged. You've got government agencies from many nations alongside multiple non-profits all invested in protecting birds. But how do they know to coordinate efforts, to spread their influence, or at least, how not to get in each other’s way? Into this space comes the North American Bird Conservation Initiative - NABCI for short - whose US coordinator Judith Scarl joins Nate Swick to talk about how they get it all done.

Plus, another Cedar Waxwing Story from Tyler Wilson of Bend, Oregon.

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0:48.3	Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:52.3	I'm Nitzwake. Here we are, officially in summer. The solstice is behind us. It's the season
1:00.2	of fledglings and ratty-looking birds. And on the plus side, fall migration, only a
1:05.4	couple weeks away, so we'll get to look forward to that again soon. But the big summer
1:10.7	news every year is the AOS Classification Committee
1:15.1	Supplement. Nick Block and I talked about the proposals a few weeks ago. The supplement is out.
1:22.7	So let's just say Nick and my predictions were about as accurate as they've been in the past, which is to say
1:29.4	not really accurate at all. Of the proposals we talked about, the Mexican duck is split, so
1:36.1	enjoy that one. Might be an arm shared tick. That means that there are some Mallard-type
1:41.4	ducks in South Texas that have the genes of three full species
1:45.0	all mixed up in there so that's not confusing at all that's not to say that i don't think the
1:50.3	split should have happened i do but and ducks ducks are a mess also northwestern crow no more
1:57.7	it is now a subspecies of american crow or a Klein or whatever. You don't have to
2:03.2	drive yourself crazy trying to identify them anymore. That's the takeaway. Washington, Oregon,
2:09.3	British Columbia birders, congratulations. One less thing to worry about, although I assume that a lot of
2:15.2	you lost a lyfer there.
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