Have you been outburning? Outburning with field guides is the new birding video series you've been hearing about.

The latest episodes from Lima, Peru, Arizona, Brazil, Cape May, and the prey potholes include adventure,

conversations with fascinating bird people, and field pointers. Remember, even when you're at home,

you can always go outburning with field guides. Join the fun at outburning.com slash aBA hello and welcome to the american birding podcast from the american

birding association i am nate swick happy thanksgiving to listeners out there whether you've got

this podcast on the day it releases

or a few days after. I'm thankful to all of you who download and listen, join the ABA and

communicate with us. I very much enjoyed doing this, and I am grateful that so many of you

have found value in it as well. So thank you very much. Happy Thanksgiving

to all of you. Before we move on, I do have some sad news to report that birding community

and the ABA family lost one of the great ones. Ned Brinkley passed away while birding in

Ecuador last weekend. ABA members may remember Ned as the longtime editor of the ABA's North American Birds,

the Journal of Ornithological Record.

Ned took his responsibility collecting bird records from regional editors all over the continent

very seriously and would frequently write some of the most insightful and interesting essays

as part of the journal's changing seasons column, which was meant to be sort of an overview of

all the bird movement and migration phenomenon for a given season. Ned's interests and

abilities were varied, and he brought all of this to bear on these columns,

which were frequently, I don't know, for a birder like me, works of art, for people interested in

status and distribution with the wares and whys of bird movements, he was insightful and

clear-minded and brilliant at tying all of these

things together and frequently really funny, which I don't have to tell you, isn't super easy

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