04-25: Finally a Field Guide to Hawaii with Helen & André Raine

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Birders on the mainland of the US and Canada have no shortage of options when it comes to field guides. Our friends in Hawaii, however, have not had such luxuries despite being home to some of the world's most spectacular birds. Now that Hawaii is included in the ABA Area, interest in the islands among birders is high, and the need for a good field guide was dire. Helen and André Raine have created just that guide along with photographer Jack Jeffrey, published as part of the American Birding Association series of field guide earlier this year. They join host Nate Swick to talk about it, and you can even win a copy with our trivia giveaway.

Also, a virtual NAOC was pretty great and a Cedar Waxwing story from Chris Ortega of California.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:10.0	I'm Nate Swick.
0:11.0	I want to give a shout out to all the podcast listeners out there who attended last week's North American ornithological conference.
0:20.0	The conference was held online virtually this year, but what it means is that it was
0:25.8	easier than ever for those of us sort of in the larger bird community who are not
0:32.8	professional ornithologists or students in that bird academic world to follow along,
0:39.3	even participate, which is pretty cool.
0:41.9	I've said this many times I will continue to say it again and again.
0:46.1	I think orthology is a scientific discipline that is so unique in that amateur community
0:52.2	scientists like many of us out there, are frequently engaged in the work
0:56.4	that bird researchers are doing such that this academic conference is actually kind of
1:02.8	interesting to us. Ornithology and astronomy seem to me to be the only professional, hard science
1:09.7	disciplines that have such buy-in from the associated sort of hobby community. There's frequently a lot of interaction. The work that all of the scientists do has a direct impact on our hobby, not just in terms of taxonomy and splits and lumps and obvious stuff like that, but also, you know, active conservation initiatives. And in hobby birders,
1:31.1	ornithologists doing work on bird populations have this community of cheap or free labor to do
1:37.7	surveys that are admittedly variably robust. But that is sort of what the Christmas bird count and the breeding bird survey
1:46.1	and indeed eBird are at least sort of theoretically meant to do. And of course, for someone like
1:52.9	me who is always looking for interesting bird people to talk to on this very podcast, this
1:57.3	content beast that has never satiated, It is a great opportunity to find guests.
2:03.0	So anyone who attended in AOC this year, if you saw a program that was particularly
2:08.2	interesting and you would like to send that person my way, I thank you for that. But I put
2:15.1	the word out on Twitter and I got a few ideas back, but I'm
2:17.6	always on the lookout for more. As I said, I have a lot of shows to fill, and I always like
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