Welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I'm your host, Nate Swick.

It is at this month and birding week, so the discussion runs a little bit on the longer side.

So I'm going to keep this part, this intro part short, and just congratulate the listeners

who correctly answered last week's trivia questions and won copies of the new ABA field guide to the birds of Hawaii.

Congratulations to Scott Clark, Aaron Clanderman, Kyle Shanta, Elizabeth Trott, Cody Delano, and Max

Laura. Those books are on their way. Look for them in the mail. As to the

answers, I asked for the four species of bird that are native breeders in both Hawaii and Delaware

where the ABA's headquarters is located. I gave a few hints. I said that all four have subspecies

that are unique to Hawaii, but still considered

cons-specific with the mainland birds. So the birds that I had in mind when I asked this question

were common galanule, which is Alaiaula in Hawaiian, black-necked stilt, aaeo, black-crowned

night heron, Auku, and Pueo, or short-eared owl, which is a rare

breeder in the marshes in northern Delaware.

And indeed, on much of the east coast of the U.S., not a lot of people know that.

So those were the four I was thinking of.

There turned out to be three more that you could make a fair

argument should be included. Piedbill Grebe, certainly breeds in Delaware, was a former breeder

in Hawaii, but not for a couple decades now when I was talking about that fifth species. That

was the one I was thinking of. But, as I discovered, Least Turn is another in recent years. It is a

regular breeder on the Big Island, still not annual in Delaware, though it does breed in some

years. Again, you can make the argument that it belongs. And blue wing teal, which is another

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