05-51: This Month in Birding - December 2021

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We’re at the end of the month and the end of 2021. So it's time for the This Month in Birding panel. We bring back some of our birding friends from the year that was in the form of The Birdist Nick Lund, Bird Sh*t's Mo Stych, and Portland Audubon's Brodie Cass Talbott. We talk about the brand new ABA Bird of the Year, Burrowing Owls and rats, cursing crows, and our best and worst birding holiday gifts.

Links to articles discussed in this episode:

Burrowing Owl is the 2022 ABA Bird of the Year!

Farallon Islands Mouse Eradication Plan Splits Community

Foul-mouth Crow Befriends Elementary School

Good Bird Conservation News from Audubon

Colorado Ranch saves farm by betting on rare birds

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0:00.0	We're at the end of the month, the end of 2021. It is time again for this month in birding.
0:05.2	This is the one that will end the year for the American Birding podcast, a year in which we put out 51 episodes, a new record. I tell you, it only felt like 45.
0:16.8	I'm excited to bring back some friends, all of whom are returning. It's all very exciting.
0:22.7	So let's just get to it in alphabetical order.
0:27.9	He is the birdist and the author of the forthcoming ABA Field Guide to the Birds of Maine,
0:31.2	which is out early in 2022, I believe.
0:31.9	Is that correct?
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.6	Yeah.
0:35.7	Welcome, Nick.
0:36.9	Hey, you know, that's funny.
0:56.1	I've never been alphabetically first in anything. My L is smack in the middle. Yeah, we have a very late alphabet, heavy panel this time. She was one half of the bird shite podcast, which will have a new episode out by the time this releases, maybe. Anyway. I hope so. Yeah, I never miss it. and only partly because i help edit it uh hello again mo stike hello thanks for having me and last from portland audubon
1:02.0	making this an all portland episode but not all the same portland i didn't intend this to be a
1:07.0	theme episode but there you go uh in any case it is is Brody Castelbert. Hello, Brody.
1:11.8	Hey, thanks so much for having me. Yeah. So this episode, technically speaking, is being recorded
1:17.3	before the big ABA bird of the year reveal in Philadelphia this coming weekend. But it will be
1:22.6	released after that reveal. So people will be listening this knowing what the bird of the year is. So I think
1:29.7	it would be okay if I told you, provided that you all agree to embargo that information until
1:35.1	Sunday at 5.30 p.m. Eastern Time. I have buyers lined up. For a price, yeah, for a price.
1:41.4	We can talk. We can talk. Do you have any idea what the bird might be? We kind of talk. We're talking a little bit before we started recording about how the bird is chosen. Yeah, I'd like to hold off a second so we can pepper you some questions. And as Mo said, learn a little bit about how the sausage is made. That's right. So you, the ABA folks sit down and you say like here are the here are the birds we've
2:03.0	had recently here's uh you think about like what's something you haven't done or an area like
2:09.4	what's going to look good like what's the thought process yeah so usually every year we have like a
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