05-46: Birding Book Club - Best of 2021

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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It is time once more for the most anticipated Birding Book Club of the year, our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2021. And while it is still November, holiday gift-giving season is right around the corner so we want to get this conversation out there for our listeners' sake. We are joined by 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman and Birding magazine media and book review editor Frank Izaguirre to talk about what we loved this year in bird books.

Also, the New Zealand Bird of the Year is a bat for some reason.

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0:00.0	Since 1971, Beauty O' Books has specialized in ornithology and natural history.
0:05.0	They're a small, family-owned and operated mail-order bookstore with the largest selection of new, used, and rare birding and ornithology books in the world, and a knowledgeable staff ready to help.
0:15.0	Find field guides, travel guides, ornithology, natural history, humor, even children's books to inspire the next generation's love of nature.
0:22.6	Visit beautyobbooks.com to find everything you're looking for and ABA members receive 10% off.
0:32.6	Well, welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:36.6	I am Nate Swick with the big reveal of the 2022 ABA Bird of the Year.
0:41.6	Only a month away.
0:43.1	Tickets still available at ABA.org slash bird of the year to our event in Philadelphia, by the way.
0:48.4	I decided to take a look around the world to see what other countries have done for their various birds of the year or bird of
0:55.1	the years, whichever way you want to do it, competition slash fundraiser slash awareness campaign
1:00.1	slash points of meaningless argumentation. There are a number of places that do birds of the years,
1:05.3	very popular in the bird life international countries. Europe does a ton of them. I started out by Googling Bird of the
1:12.4	year just to find out who was doing it. I only found like three places, three countries.
1:18.6	I hesitate to use countries because the ABA area consists of both the U.S. and Canada and a tiny
1:23.0	part of France if we're being pedantic. Then I very quickly realized that English is not the only language
1:29.1	that people speak in the world. So I pulled up the old Google translator when they searched for
1:34.8	various Aves delanyo and Vogel Desiars and Waso Delani. And I found quite a few. There's some really
1:43.1	good ones. Germany does a Vogel de Sierrez. And in last year in 2021, it was Ratt Kelchen, which is the European Robin, apparently its second time as bird of the year. They've been doing it since the 70s. Pretty great. Spain did it as well. It was the Common Swift, Vensejo Comune.
2:03.8	Great bird, great name, great indicator species for various environmental concerns,
2:10.0	namely having to do with insect loss.
2:12.8	In France, it was the La Chavezh d'Athina, or the little owl.
2:17.2	Cute bird, love owls.
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