06-01: 2022 Bird of the Year Artist Christina Baal
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Last month the ABA officially announced the 2022 ABA Bird of the Year, which is Burrowing Owl! The excitement over the owl is, no doubt, helped along by the exceptional artwork of our Bird of the Year artist, Christina Baal, whose colorful and personable style seems to fit this species like an owl nestled in a subterranean PVC pipe. She’s with host Nate Swick to talk about Burrowing Owls, inspiration, and art.
Plus, send us your Burrowing Owl stories, like the one Nate shares this week.
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| 0:38.1 | Time for ABA's bird of the year |
| 0:43.8 | About ABA's bird of the year |
| 0:47.8 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American |
| 0:51.7 | Birding Association. I'm your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:54.6 | It is 2022, the year of the burrowing owl, Athena, Cunicularia, Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, |
| 1:04.2 | among other things, frequently depicted with a small owl friend. And cunicularia, this is actually kind of interesting. |
| 1:12.9 | It's from the Latin for borrower or miner. |
| 1:15.8 | It refers specifically so far as I can tell to a rabbit warren. |
| 1:21.1 | Coniculus pertains to the European rabbit, from which comes the term Coney, Lord of the Rings fans, you know. |
| 1:29.9 | Keeping rabbits is known as cuna culture from the same route, both European rabbits and burrowing owls. |
| 1:35.5 | Live in holes. |
| 1:36.6 | There's your connection. |
| 1:37.8 | And a particularly inane piece of trivia. |
| 1:42.3 | Anyway, it occurs to me that burrowing out is a particularly good choice because regardless |
| 1:46.9 | of how this pandemic proceeds, we will either be coming out of our burrows or sinking |
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