05-28: Your Bird Story with Georgia Silvera Seamans

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We at the ABA are big fans of the growing birding podcast scene and one of the more interesting ones out now is Your Bird Story, which focuses on everyday people’s experiences with birds in cities. The host of Your Bird Story, Dr. Georgia Silvera Seamans, is, among other things, the director of Washington Square Park Eco Projects, an urban and community forester, and of one the co-organizers of Black Botanists Week. She joins us to talk about collecting bird stories from everyone and the importance of wild places in urban spaces.

Also, Nate is back from Florida wowed by Swallow-tailed Kites and Pileated Woodpeckers.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Ted Floyd. I am the editor of the American Birding Association's Birding Magazine,
0:06.6	and I've been out birding for much of the past week. This is my favorite time of the year with the
0:12.3	nesting season in high gear. It's also my favorite time of the year because I get to interact so
0:17.9	extensively right now with young birders at ABA teen birding camps
0:22.6	in connection with the ABA Young Birder of the Year program and simply out in the field
0:27.4	enjoying birds and nature together. This is also the time of the year when the ABA kicks into
0:33.2	its nesting season appeal, an urgent mid-year campaign to raise money for all our young
0:39.3	birder programs, as well as the many public services like this podcast, which require funding
0:45.1	beyond basic memberships. To contribute to the nesting season appeal, please donate online at
0:52.1	aBA.org slash give, or us at 800 850-2473 and give what you can.
1:03.2	Programming at the ABA is highly cost-efficient and your donation will go directly to resources for young
1:09.3	birders and the whole community of people who
1:12.0	care about birds and birding. Again, that website is aBA.org slash give, and the phone number is
1:20.3	800-850-2473. Thank you for ensuring a bright future for birds and for birders and good birding to all of you.
1:30.3	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:45.2	I'm Nate Swick, and I'm back, back from sunny, humid, and at least for one day, tropical stormy, South Florida.
1:54.7	It was a family vacation primarily, which is what I'm using as my excuse for not saying short-tailed hawk or mangrove cuckoo again.
2:03.2	Cuckoo, I feel, is a real long shot, especially in midsummer.
2:06.9	But the hawk, yeah.
2:09.2	My dad and I were driving down the road on Sanibel Island,
2:12.3	and we had a dark beauty of kind of whipped by one of those, you know, less than half a second things. And, you know,
2:19.3	all the boxes were ticked, even though it was brief, but it was so brief that it's one of those
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