05-01: A Guide to Bird Behavior with John Kricher

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

John Kricher is well known by anyone with an interest in tropical ecology. He's professer emeritus of biology at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and the author of many books, notably Tropical Ecology and A Neotropical Companion, re-released as A New Neotropical Companion in 2017. His most recent book, however, is about birds and their behavior, appropriately titled the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior, and podcast regulars might remember that it was one of our favorite books of 2020. John joins Nate Swick to talk about his book and the nuances of science communication.

Also, Nate fixes his finch anxiety and waxes poetic about the 2021 ABA Bird of the Year, Pileated Woodpecker.

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0:00.0	I think we all know the pedigree of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology when it comes to bird
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0:27.4	where birders can answer all their life history questions for every species of bird they
0:31.3	could want. It is extraordinary. You can get more information at birdsof the world.org.
0:35.8	Thank you. Get more information at birds of the world.org.
0:42.3	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:45.3	I'm your host, Nate Swick.
0:47.3	Happy New Year!
0:49.3	I hope your year list is off to a great start, and if it isn't, that's fine too. I don't know about you, but this
0:55.6	year feels a little different, a little more hopeful, even if the change is an arbitrary move
1:01.6	to a new number. It holds some power in our minds. And a new year list or yard list or whatever
1:07.6	alongside that slow lengthening of daylight and the hope that this
1:11.6	pandemic that we've all been enduring might come to an end this year. Fingers crossed at some
1:16.9	point, we deserve it, that's for sure. I took the opportunity early in this new year to put
1:23.6	an end to my Finch superflight anxiety. Maybe birders to the north of me don't feel
1:28.5	this, but I was getting a little nervous that I was going to miss this historic superflight
1:34.4	in which Evening Grosbeaks are showing up, evidently, in Florida, in Louisiana now, and people
1:40.9	are saying, whoa, we may never see this again. And it just, I don't know, it just made me nervous, you know, because I'd been out.
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