Hello, this is Ted Floyd. I am the editor of the American Birding Association's Birding Magazine,

and I've been out birding for much of the past week. This is my favorite time of the year

with the nesting season in high gear. It's also my favorite time of the year because I get to

interact so extensively right now with young birders at ABA teen birding camps, in connection

with the ABA Young Birder of the Year program, and simply out in the field enjoying birds

and nature together. This is also the time of the year when the ABA kicks into its nesting season

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Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I am Nate Swick. A few weeks ago, I talked with friend of the ABA, Nick Block, about classification committee

changes potentially coming to your life list.

Well, that committee, the American Ornithological Society, North American Classification

Committee, released their changes a couple weeks ago.

And so now we get to see whether Nick was right or not.

It's not really fair to Nick.

We talked about how much of taxonomy is subjective, which is kind of weird for a science, but there you have it.

And I don't know about you, but I felt like Nick was being a little more circumspect this year, probably because of the experiences we've had trying to predict these

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