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Hello, it's the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm Nate Swick,

your host. Before we get into this month in burning for August 2021, I want to follow up on a topic

we discussed for the This Month in Burding July, 2021. There is no truth to the rumor that these

episodes are just part of a bird news perpetual motion machine.

That is just a nice byproduct.

You might remember that we talked about the mysterious bird illness that was primarily centered

on the mid-Atlantic, specifically the speculation that that illness might be associated

with the Brood 10 Cicada emergence, which was also centered on the Mid-Atlantic.

So with that in mind, we turned to Scientific American, which recently ran an interview with

Brian Evans, who is an ornithologist with the Smithsonian Institute.

He specifically brings up the cicada theory, or perhaps more appropriately, the series of

interconnected cicada theories.

He says that that seems less likely now because some of the birds impacted by this

illness have been found in places where the cicadas were not emerging, though,

admittedly, there is still a strong relationship

between the Brood 10 distribution and the mortality event. I just thought that was interesting.

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