05-24: Birding Book Club: Guides to Mexico and Central America
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
It’s time for the American Birding Podcast Birding Book Club and host Nate Swick welcomes bird media reviewers Frank Izaguirre from the ABA’s Birding magazine and Donna Schulman from the website 10,000 Birds to finally tackle birding's great contribution to world literature, the field guide. We start with guides to Mexico and Central America, popular destinations for US and Canada birders and a great place to begin the discussion about what makes a good field guide and who and what field guides are for.
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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 |
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| 0:22.6 | our young birder programs, to ensure the next generation of leaders in birding and conservation |
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| 0:46.8 | Again, that's ABA.org-slash-give or 800-850-2473. |
| 0:53.8 | Thanks so much and good birding. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm your host, Nate Swick. |
| 1:05.0 | A little bit of bird names for birds' news to lead us off. |
| 1:07.0 | Just a brief update here so we don't have to go into it again and this |
| 1:11.1 | month and burning next week. It's one of those things that is probably not worth a big |
| 1:13.9 | discussion and more the passing on of information. The American Ornithological Society has new |
| 1:19.7 | leadership, a new president and Mike Webster, a new executive director and Judeuscarl, former |
| 1:25.1 | podcast guest, FYI. |
| 1:32.4 | I admit I do not know enough about the organization to know how those two positions sort of interact with each other, other than to say academia is kind of weird that way. |
| 1:38.3 | But anyway, Webster has taken it upon himself to initiate an ad hoc committee to take a look |
| 1:43.4 | at the bird name thing |
| 1:44.7 | and issue some findings, possibly by the end of the year. So far as I can tell, the diversity and |
| 1:51.1 | inclusion committee who hosted the online panel last month was not involved in setting this |
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