04-42: Invasion of the Winter Finches with Matt Young

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The winter of 2020-21 is one the likes of which we have not seen before. It's a finch superflight year, with boreal grosbeaks, finches, siskins, crossbills, and more pouring out of the north and into places where birders can more easily experience them. This means that it’s an incredible opportunity for us to learn more about why this phenomenon happens, and Matt Young has always been one to have that conversation. He is a leading authority on Red Crossbill call types and now the founder of the Finch Research Network. He joins host Nate Swick to talk about this incredibly finch phenomenon.

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0:44.5	Well, and welcome to the American Birding Podcast for the American Burning Association.
0:46.9	I'm your host, Nate Swick.
0:51.6	I promised last week I would tell you a rarity finding story.
0:54.1	So I will do that. Dear American Burning podcast, I never thought it would happen to me.
0:58.1	You know, in lieu of telling the tale to friends over a drink in these pandemic times,
1:03.1	I will tell it to the podcast audience.
1:05.1	So here we go.
1:06.3	My family was staying at Kitty Hawk in the Outer Banks.
1:09.8	I already had some pretty good birding, especially sea watching.
1:13.2	We had one day where the weather was kind of nasty, but there were lots of birds moving over
1:17.0	the ocean in really big numbers, lots of scoters, loons, gulls, cormorants, Gannets, even a couple
1:23.5	of Yeagers, which are always fun.
1:25.2	But I was interested in land birds, mostly because of
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