05-48: Encore - A Life in Raptors with Jerry Liguori
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Hawk-watchers are easily the most established sub-groups within the birding community, and the hawk-watching community in North America is close-knit and passionate. One of its undisputed authorities is Jerry Liguori of Salt Lake City, Utah, the author of Hawks at a Distance and Hawks from Every Angle, two of the most influential family-specific field guides in North America. He is the 2017 recipient of the ABA’s Robert Ridgway Award for publications in field ornithology and his articles have appeared many times in ABA’s Birding magazine. Jerry joins host Nate Swick to talk about the magic of watching hawks, his diagnosis with ALS, and what birders need to know about hawk-watching.
Also, the last of our Pileated Woodpecker stories from Gaspard Tanguay-Labrosse of Montreal, Quebec, and a fascinating study that suggests that chickadees segregate by species using smell.
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| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:36.6 | I am your host, Nate Swick. It is December, Christmas bird count season, winter owl season, |
| 0:43.1 | time to enjoy holiday cards festooned with cardinals and chickadees. Why are those the most popular |
| 0:49.4 | Christmas holiday birds? Cardinals aren't even found continent wide. I've never seen anything |
| 0:53.9 | beyond the classic black cap slash Carolina chickadee, no brown-headed boreal chickadees or eyeline |
| 1:00.4 | mountain chickadees. This gets to my theory that the entire Christmas culture industrial complex is |
| 1:06.9 | based entirely in the northeast United States. And I occasionally see a Santa with a palm tree, |
| 1:12.6 | but that's really an exception rather than the rule. I could go on, this is not the place for this |
| 1:17.8 | discussion. You can find my thoughts on the celebration cultural hegemony on my other podcast, |
| 1:23.9 | Benalida's. I want to talk to you about chickadees and this fascinating study I read |
| 1:28.6 | about recently. That's all about the hybrid zone between Carolina and Black Cap chickadees, |
| 1:33.3 | which, as you may know, has been studied extensively, and rightly so. And sort of why it's |
| 1:38.8 | relatively stable when the two species regularly steal each other's vocalizations. |
| 1:44.6 | Not just songs, as birders know well, but calls too from time to time. |
| 1:49.9 | And the answer to that question is that they might be using smell. |
| 1:55.1 | They smell different, Carolina, and Black Cap chickadees. |
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