05-39: This Month in Birding - September 2021
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It's the last episode of September 2021, and to add to this fall birding bounty comes a super panel featuring Birds Canada's Jody Allair, the Finch Research Network's Ryan Mandelbaum, and Jordan Rutter of the American Birding Conservancy. We're excited to chat about this winter's finch forecast, cutthroat birding, and some analysis of the Covid pandemic pause on birds in urban areas.
Links to topics discussed this month:
Last Week Tonight satirizes the Duck Stamp Contest (language warning)
Birding is a Cutthroat Test of Skill, Strategy, and Endurance
The 2021-22 Winter Finch Forecast is out!
Birders on their (Expensive) Habit
Peru adds Marvelous Spatuletail to 100 soles denomination
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| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm Nate Swick. |
| 0:38.3 | It is Timib time. |
| 0:40.3 | This month in Birding, I'll make things quick off the top. |
| 0:43.3 | But if you are a fan of perfectly executed pranks, this month was a good one in the birding and conservation world. |
| 0:51.3 | The duck stamp entries came out this month. |
| 0:53.3 | They announced the winner whose work |
| 0:55.5 | will appear on next year's stamp. There were some really wild submissions this year. As you |
| 1:01.3 | might know, this year, every stamp was required to include what they called a hunting element |
| 1:05.1 | per a rule change that has since been rescinded. So there are some pretty amazing submissions this year, |
| 1:11.6 | including a redhead aiming a gun at a hunter, |
| 1:14.4 | a duck-themed take on the Vermeer masterpiece, |
| 1:17.2 | Girl with a Pearl Earring, |
| 1:18.3 | in which the girl is a blue-wing teal, |
| 1:20.5 | and a couple of others that were clearly intended to mock this rule |
| 1:24.6 | in a legitimately masterful way. |
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