04-19: How Birders Can Save the Migratory Bird Treaty Act with Tykee James

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Birders are undoubtedly familiar with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, at least by name, and recent proposed changes to that venerable piece of conservation legislation by the Trump Administration have environmental groups concerned about the long-term impacts on birds. Tykee James, host of On Word for Wildlife, a wildlife and politics podcast on the Wildlife Observer Network, and a government affairs professional joins host Nate Swick to talk about what the MBTA does and what birders can do to address these changes including commenting here before July 20!

Also, thoughts on the AOS's McCown's Longspur announcement and Nate issues corrections.

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0:36.2	Music You can get more information at birds of the world.org.
0:46.3	Hello, welcome. This is the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association.
0:55.1	I'm Nate Swick. I talked a little last week about an upcoming statement from the American Ornithological Society's North American Classification Committee on potential common name changes. And it did come in that sort of awkward
1:01.7	period between when I record these parts of the podcast and when the podcast actually comes out.
1:06.5	So if you're paying attention to this issue, you may be wondering why I didn't address it
1:11.7	last week, but I'm going to address it now.
1:14.2	And it's just as well having a little bit extra time.
1:16.7	My opinion on it has kind of gone back and forth in the period between when it came out
1:21.8	and now.
1:23.6	So the statement basically says that the NACC was going to come up with some new guidelines
1:29.4	for changing common names in what they call the context of a broader cultural landscape.
1:37.5	They state that they will strike a balance that recognizes the principles of nomenclatural stability.
1:43.8	There's that phrase again, while respecting
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