05-11: ID Nation - Early Spring Challenges

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Spring is here and birders across North America, including new pandemic birders for whom this might be their very first spring migration as a birder, are looking forward to birds return. And to help them along, we're starting a new regular feature on the American Birding Podcast, an identification roundtable. This time we welcome Field Guides early spring ID challenges with a couple crack birders Tom Johnson from Field Guides and artist and ornithology graduate student Marky Mutchler. Join us as we chat waterthrushes, blackbirds, and strategies for tackling big groups of migrating birds.

Also, it's March Madness and kudos to Creighton for having the best bird mascot in the field.

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0:45.6	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:47.4	I am your host, Nate Swick.
1:12.0	If you know me, if you've been a listener to this podcast for a while, you know that in addition to being a birder, I'm also a sports fan, specifically a basketball fan, and such this week, the return of the NCAA tournament is very exciting, sort of in that thing slowly seeming more normal every week as the vaccine drive continues. That's great. But this is not a sports podcast.
1:13.8	This is a birding podcast.
1:29.6	You are not necessarily interested in my hot sports takes, except perhaps for the one about how it is a travesty that the only two schools with bird mascots ever to win an NCAA tournament are Kansas, which has its mascot a jahawk a mythical bird wearing shoes it certainly raises the question of how does a bird
1:36.0	even wear shoes why do those shoes look like people's shoes when bird feet do not look like
1:41.2	people feet these are the questions that keep us up at night and louisville the cardinals which has a horrific monster of a mascot a cardinal with teeth
1:50.8	makes my skin crawl just to think about it awful so i'm i'm always interested in looking at teams
1:59.1	in the nca tournament with bird mascots and the ornithological accuracy of those mascots is a great concern to me.
2:06.0	And I will note that this is the men's tournament.
2:08.9	At the time I record this, the women's field has not yet been chosen.
2:12.3	So without going into a mascot by mascot breakdown of the ornithological accuracy of every school with a bird mascot
2:18.5	in the tournament. If you want that, you can go to my Twitter feed. Spoiler alert, there are a lot of
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