05-45: Behind the Finch Forecast with Tyler Hoar

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The annual Winter Finch Forecast is easily one of the highlights of the birding year for many, and a perfect combination of birding science and birding art. When Ron Pittaway retired in early 2020, birders worried that the forecast would be retired as well, but that was happily not the case. Tyler Hoar stepped in and with the help of the Finch Research Network, brought the forecast into the 21^st Century. He joins us to talk about how it all works and what it was like filling the shoes of a birding giant.

Plus, come join us as we reveal the 2022 Bird of the Year at a party in Philadelphia!

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0:32.6	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:37.7	I am Nate Swick, your host.
0:40.2	We have big, exciting news to announce here on the American Burning podcast.
0:44.8	It is November.
0:46.1	We are coming to the end of the year of the Pileated Woodpecker.
0:49.5	And I want to thank all of you who have shared your Pileated Woodpecker stories with me this year.
0:53.2	It's been fun to hear them to see the pilated content on the ABA's Birding Magazine to celebrate
0:58.8	the art by Juan Trevieso. It's been a good year. I think palated woodpecker has been a very good
1:05.4	bird of the year. But as 2021 comes to a close, we look forward to 2022's bird of the year. And we have it. It's chosen. It's in the bag. We have the artist. That is Christina Ball, who incidentally has been on the podcast before back when we did the live show at the 2019 Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. So we already knew she was a good sport, friend of the ABA.
1:27.7	Anyway, she does fantastic, visually exciting, very distinctive work. And she has really done
1:35.0	the 2022 bird of the year proud. But really the best thing about this year is that with
1:41.9	the pandemic waning, with vaccines, freely available, go get your shot if you haven't already year is that with the pandemic waning with vaccines freely available go get
1:45.8	your shot if you haven't already is that we can get together again and celebrate the bird of
1:51.0	the year in person like we did back oh my goodness it feels like so long ago back in 2020 so we're doing that with a big bird of the
2:04.9	year reveal party in philadelphia pennsylvania historic home of american ornithology and
2:10.3	according to our stats the sixth most popular market for the american birding podcast it will be
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