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Hello and welcome to the American Burning podcast from the American Birding Association.

I'm Nate Swick.

It's the last episode of the month, the last episode of spring.

If you ascribe to the meteorological seasons, though really early June is a good time for late migrants like flycatchers and a few warblers like Connecticut and morning too.

So I hope the birding season, spring season lingers into June.

It won't be long before adult tundra breeding shorebirds start heading south again.

So enjoy your three weeks of summer before fall migration kicks off.

Birding is great that way.

It's a this month in birding episode, so I won't keep you up here.

But I do want to note that Black Birders Week starts up on May 30th.

For information on that, check out the Black AF and STEM Collective.

There will be a link in the show notes, but you can find it there.

There's a lot of cool stuff planned, and I'll note it again next week. But that's all the adieu.

Let's get to the business, the Smith & Birding, with Sean Mellons, Jordan Rudder, Perbita Saha, all after this week's Rare Birds.

This is your Rare Bird Focus for the third week of May 2021.

Pelagic birding is fun, one, because you get to see a lot of cool birds and their element

on one of the most mysterious ecosystems on the planet, and two, because you never, ever,

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