05-08: This Month in Birding - February 2021

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last Thursday in February and that means it’s time for This Month in Birding! We're pleased to welcome some birding friends to talk about the birding news of the month, and in this month maybe more than most, we need each other. February's winning panel consists of Jennie Duberstein of Sonoran Joint Venture, Jordan Rutter of the American Bird Conservancy, and Brodie Cass Talbott of Portland Audubon, who come ready to talk about owl ethics, the debunking of the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect, bird extinctions, and more.

Articles to topics discussed:

Owl Drama in New York City's Central Park

Is the Patagonia Picnic Table Effect a real thing?

(plus the cool PPTE charts Jennie mentions)

Extinct Birds were Not Declining Prior to Colonization of North America

Leave your Comments in Support of Rolling Back Proposed Changes to the MBTA

A Two-headed Grouse in Nova Scotia?

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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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0:22.3	brings deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of Ornithology into a single platform
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.
0:40.0	Hey everybody. This is just a warning that in the beginning of this episode, I discussed
0:43.6	an incident of sexual assault. There aren't a lot of details or anything, but for those who
0:48.2	might find that sort of thing distressing or inappropriate for younger listeners, you can
0:51.8	skip forward about four minutes, 45 seconds, five minutes.
0:55.3	Thank you. Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:00.4	I'm your host, Nate Swick. Let's just jump right into it, shall we? The birding world was rocked
1:06.5	last week by the allegations of Aisha White that Jason Ward sexually assaulted her.
1:13.1	You probably know Jason Ward from his topic, Birds of North America web series, and
1:18.3	frequently, of course, this podcast.
1:21.4	Aisha White detailed her experience in a blog post early last week, and the response has been
1:26.2	pretty swift.
1:27.6	Many organizations, including the American Birding Association, have severed ties with Jason Ward and the days since.
1:33.7	And while, on the whole, it has been a frustrating and sad thing, it has reinvigorated the ongoing discussion about women's safety in the field and entrenched sexism and inappropriate
1:44.9	behavior, largely by men in birding. And I'll talk about that in a minute, but first I want to
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