05-02: How to be "Hawky" with Janet Ng

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The wide open spaces of the North American west are frequently spotted with signs of human industrial energy production. Oil and gas wells, massive wind turbines, and the like are impossible to miss and impact, occasionally significantly, the birds that live in these vast prairie ecosystems. Dr Janet Ng studies the effects of this industrial incursion into these wild places in the southern Canadian plains, and works with various partners to keep landscapes "hawky".

Also the first batch of North American Classification Committee proposals are out with no mention of #birdnamesforbirds.

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0:45.0	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:47.5	I'm Nate Swick, your host.
0:50.3	Is everyone doing all right out there?
0:57.0	It's been a hard week to stay focused on, well, anything. And I know I will get some complaints about wading into politics like I do, but it feels like we should not be in a place
1:02.1	where the ABA of all organizations feels any sort of obligation to say the American Birding
1:08.7	Association opposes the violent demonstrations of January 6th and
1:11.8	strongly supports the peaceful transition of power. But if Axe's body spray has to do it, I guess we
1:17.1	should all be prepared. So that's that. Moving away from that sort of thing into birding politics,
1:26.6	the American Ornithological Society's North American Classification Committee
1:30.4	released their first batch of taxonomic proposals, and it is fairly non-controversial, some
1:37.7	interesting things in there, like finally splitting the North American Mugh goal from the European
1:43.0	Common Goal. Many authorities already treat
1:46.0	these as two different species, but the AOS has always had them lumped. The most interesting
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