05-09: Unraveling a Nighthawk Migration Mystery with Elly Knight

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

GPS devices have been a boon for migratory bird research, and it seems that every year a new species gets a turn in the spotlight. This year, it's the amazing Common Nighthawk's turn. Our guest this week is Elly Knight, a researcher at the University of Alberta in Edmonton and the leader an initiative to describe the migration of Common Nighthawks, the subject of a paper recently published in the journal Ecography.

Check out a picture of "Maurice" the fake nighthawk at our website.

Also, the Meidum Geese fraud and why it feels like stringing, and a Pileated Woodpecker story from Charley Hesse of the Naturally Adventurous podcast.

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0:42.7	Music Get more information at birds of the world.org. Hi, I'm Nate Swick.
0:44.1	Welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:48.6	I was reminded this week that birding is difficult and has been for hundreds of years. The reason for this perhaps self-evident
0:59.9	revelation, a painting. A painting that was in the news recently, purportedly from Egypt, about 4,600
1:07.2	years ago, called the mitam geese, not the medium geese, which is how I always read it
1:12.9	in my head, mitam, the eye on the other side of the d. It was originally found in 1871 by
1:19.0	Egyptologist Luigi Vasali in a tomb located near the Midam Pyramid. Supposedly, this tomb belonged to
1:26.2	the Pharaoh Snefruz sun.
1:29.1	The fresco, the mural was removed and is now located in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
1:36.4	So this painting is considered the Mona Lisa for Egyptian art, because we have to compare everything
1:41.7	to the Mona Lisa, and it depicts six geese of three
1:45.3	species. So two of them are gray-leg geese. Two of them are greater white-fronted geese. Both of
1:51.5	those species that would probably have been familiar to Egyptians at the time. They regularly
1:56.5	winter as far south as modern-day Israel and Jordan probably would not have been uncommon
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