05-13: ENCORE - The Nomadic Nature of Snow Buntings with Emily McKinnon

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🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

It’s the time of year when Arctic birds are moving south into the populated parts of the continent, and citizen scientists are there to meet them, trap them, and use cutting edge technology to track their movements. It’s a testament to our interest in nomadic tundra birds that that could apply to a couple different projects, but this time around we are talking about Snow Buntings and the Canadian Snow Bunting Network. Dr. Emily McKinnon is a researcher at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and the administrator of this project that has found out a number of fascinating things about these consummate winter birds.

Also, the ABA added three species to its checklist last month, each with a different story.

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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
0:03.9	resources. And we at the ABA are excited to partner with the Cornell Lab of O to offer an
0:08.7	amazing deal exclusive to ABA members. ABA members can now get a 15% discount to any new
0:14.2	subscription to Cornell's amazing new Birds of the World resource that is applicable for three
0:19.3	years. Birds of the World is a powerful resource that
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.
0:41.0	Good well. Get more information at burrs of the world.org. Well, and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:44.5	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:46.5	I am out of town this week.
0:48.2	It is my kids' spring break, such that such a thing even exists in this school-from-home hybrid
0:54.0	world we live in these
0:55.6	days. My family has decamped for Eastern Tennessee for a few days, so I am taking the opportunity
1:00.6	to take a small break. So the interview, it is an encore, which is sort of a fancy way of saying,
1:07.1	a rerun, but it is from a while ago, and if you're a new listener in the last year or so
1:11.3	maybe you haven't heard it but because i care so much i'm recording a new intro and it's an
1:17.2	opportunity to talk a little bit about the aBA checklist committee and the aBA checklist
1:21.8	because we just added three species to the checklist last month the aBA has changed a lot in the 50-plus years that it has been around, but the ABA
1:32.3	checklist committee is one of those foundational elements of the organization, a committee
1:37.7	of eight birders who are tasked with maintaining the list of birds for the ABA area that
1:42.5	all the listers use, adding, subtracting, et cetera.
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