05-50: Discovering the Inti Tanager with Ryan Terrill
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It is one of the great dreams of many birders, to be part of the discovery and description of a bird species that is brand new to science. But it is a process that can be long and involved. Ryan Terrill, an ornithologist at the Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College, was in the middle of it with the recent formal recognition of the Inti Tanager, a stunning South American bird known for years as the "Kill Bill" Tanager. Ryan's work surveying the bird's breeding territory in western Bolivia was a big part of that work, and he joins us to talk about the process, and why Inti Tanager is certainly not the last new species to come from this part of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Since 1971, Beauty O' Books has specialized in ornithology and natural history, |
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| 0:20.0 | to inspire the next generation's love of nature. |
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| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American American Burning Association. I am Nate Swick. |
| 0:38.0 | We had some big news here at the ABA last week. I, of course, am referring to the resignation of Jeff Gordon from the position of ABA president and I guess executive producer of this podcast, too, though that's obviously the lesser title. |
| 0:53.8 | If you are a regular listener of this podcast, you've heard Jeff here before. |
| 0:58.0 | In fact, the podcast itself and my involvement in it was largely due to him, so I thank him for that. |
| 1:05.0 | If you are old enough or well-steeped enough in ABA lore to remember when Jeff Gordon came on. |
| 1:13.3 | You'll remember that the ABA was in a very bad way at the time. |
| 1:17.6 | The organization was wobbling as close to its end as it ever has been. |
| 1:23.9 | Jeff's appointment to the position of president, captain of this listing ship, |
| 1:28.3 | ha-ha, lent instant credibility to an organization that desperately, desperately needed it. |
| 1:34.3 | And over the last 11 or so years, the ABA has really come into its own. |
| 1:38.3 | Definitely more public, more accessible, more involved in promoting every part of the birding community. |
| 1:45.1 | If you're listening, Jeff, we thank you for your hard work and wish you well as you move on to |
| 1:49.8 | other things, most of which will probably involve birding in some way, though without the added |
| 1:55.0 | stress of running a nonprofit. That responsibility, at least in the interim, goes to board chair |
| 2:00.7 | Julie Davis while we search for a new president. |
| 2:04.1 | If you're interested, stay tuned. |
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