05-23: 2021 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Early summer means that it’s time to talk taxonomy, and that means Nick Block, professor of Biology at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. For the last several years, Nick is person we like to talk to when it comes to reading the tea-leaves of the American Ornithological Society’s North America Classification Committee. We chat storm-petrels, bunting lumps, and the curious case of the Swainson's Thrushes.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jeffrey Gordon. I'm the president of the American Birding Association and the executive producer of the American Birding Podcast.
0:06.0	All of us at the ABA are grateful to you for being such loyal fans and listeners to this show.
0:11.0	Right now, during our nesting season appeal, we're asking you to do what you can to help keep this show going
0:17.0	and all the many free programs that the ABA offers, and particularly to help
0:22.6	our young birder programs, to ensure the next generation of leaders in birding and conservation
0:28.6	get the mentoring and inspiration. That has been so valuable to so many of us. Please, today, go to
0:35.3	aBA.org slash give or call us at 800-850-2473 and do what you can to help build a better future for birds and for people.
0:46.8	Again, that's ABA.org-G-slash-give or 800-850-2473.
0:53.8	Thanks so much and good birding.
1:00.3	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:03.8	I am Nate Swick.
1:05.3	Forgive me for walking you through some of my own birding these days.
1:09.5	I've been excited to return to my breeding bird survey routes this summer
1:13.4	because they didn't run them last year because, well, you may remember this time last year.
1:18.6	There were other things going on.
1:20.9	And because of the pandemic, the breeding bird survey lab, which runs the BBS,
1:24.7	wasn't able to do the prep work, sending out all the information on the many thousands of routes in the U.S. and Canada and Northern Mexico to the people actually running those routes.
1:33.9	I know some birders who ran their, ran their roots anyway, put the data in eBird.
1:37.8	Kudos to them. I chose not to, though in retrospect, it would have probably been the year with the least amount of car noise that I've ever experienced, so maybe I missed out.
1:46.3	But obviously, things were weird last year, whichever direction you decided on whether to run your BBS route or not.
1:52.3	I hear you.
1:53.6	So, as you can imagine, I was very much looking forward to a triumphant return this year.
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