05-16: Skyglow and Community Science with Lauren Pharr

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This time of year is a tough one for many birds, as they make their long dangerous journey from wintering grounds to breeding territories. The path taken by many sees them passing over or stopping to nest in increasingly urban landscapes. These landscape changes affect birds in many ways, some obvious, some more subtle. That is the work of researcher Lauren Pharr, a PhD student at North Carolina State studying urban noise and light pollution and their affect on birds. She’s with me now to chat about her work, wildlife research in urban settings, and community science.

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0:25.3	Hello, welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:28.8	I am your host, Nate Swick.
0:31.2	Last week was the much-anticipated American Ornithological Society,
0:36.4	bird names, community congress, an event organized by the AOS Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and attended by many influential voices in the birding community.
0:46.2	In addition to ABA President Jeff Gordon and our friend Jordan Rudder of the Bird Names for Birds Initiative, the panel consisted of a veritable who's who of former American birding podcast guests.
0:58.0	I saw Jody Allaire of Birds Canada, field guide authors, Ken Kaufman, David Sibley,
1:04.0	Gabriel Foley, also with Bird Names for Birds, has been on the show.
1:07.0	So as far as I know, this meeting that occurred last Friday will be put online at some
1:13.3	point as of the recording. I don't think that it has, if something changes between now and
1:19.3	Thursday when this episode goes out. I'll put that information in the show notes. So be sure to
1:24.1	check that out. But if you are a regular listener of this podcast, you sort of know where I come down on it, and for what it's worth, the ABA as an organization comes down on this issue. And we will certainly discuss all that kind of more in-depth in the April of this month and burning panel next week. But I'll take the opportunity here to make a couple comments, just sort of
1:45.3	initial reactions to the panel. I was especially interested to hear the opinions of some folks
1:52.8	whose take on the bird names issue I did not know, namely Marshall Eilf of Ebert and Danny
2:00.2	Beistrich and Dave Zilkowski of the U.S. Geological Survey,
2:04.3	the Bird Banning Lab and the Breeding Bird Survey, respectively.
2:07.9	And I thought that they might have some relevant things to say because all three of those people
2:12.4	maintain enormous bird databases used by researchers, and they might have some insight into sort of the
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