05-06: Birding through Pandemic and Cancer with Rebecca Heisman

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The year 2020 was an especially difficult one for many of us, but for writer and birder Rebecca Heisman, perhaps more than most. In addition to the responsibilities of being the parent of a young child in a year of pandemic, she dealt with a cancer diagnosis that upturned what was already something of a turbulent year. Through it all, birds became, what she calls in an essay recently published at Audubon, a thread of sanity She joins Nate Swick to talk about her trying year and what comes next.

Also, Pileated Woodpecker stories from Cecelia Dumois and Redmond Brubaker, and a congratulations to Wisdom the Laysan Albatross, a mother again at 69.

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0:44.9	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:46.7	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:47.8	Congratulations.
0:57.7	Are in order to Wisdom, the Lyson Albatross, the oldest known wild bird in the world on the occasion of the hatching of what is assumed to be her 36th chick just last week. There are various accounts
1:07.1	of Wisdom's age. Most put her in the 68 to 70 years old range. This is a bird that is
1:14.1	older than my parents still pumping out babies on Midway Island in the northwest Hawaiian Islands.
1:21.4	I couldn't find the age of her current mate, Akia Kamai, but he is Wisdom second, having outlived her first, so he is almost
1:30.1	certainly quite a bit younger.
1:33.0	Rao, go get him wisdom.
1:35.4	Interesting wisdom facts.
1:36.7	Wisdom was banded by none other than Chandler Robbins, the great Patuxent Ornithologist, creator
1:42.6	of the breeding bird survey, author of the Golden Field Guide,
1:45.8	who died just in the last couple of years.
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