06-03: A Big Year and a Bigger Purpose with Tiffany Kersten

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Texas birder Tiffany Kersten did not start 2021 with an ambitious year of birding in mind. But out of a job because of Covid closures, and with other hobbies unaccessible, the opportunity opened up to do something special. At the end of the year, she had traveled across the Lower 48 US states, raised awareness on the issue of women’s safety in the outdoors, set a new Lower 48 Big Year record of 726 species, and launched her own bird tourism business. She joins us to talk about her Big Year and her bigger purpose.

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0:34.0	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:37.9	I'm your host, Nate Swick. I have an owl story for you, not a burrowing owl story, though I am still soliciting those.
0:45.5	Podcast.a.a.org, if you want to send those to me. It's a snowy owl story, and it's not a
0:51.6	birders gone bad story. It's actually a really heartwarming thing. So this is a snowy
0:58.4	alley year, at least in the east and the Midwest. Lots of snowies have been moving down the coast
1:03.3	as far south as North Carolina this winter. And one just happened to show up right in the middle
1:09.1	of Washington, D.C., on the plaza outside Union Station, where it has been for about two weeks now.
1:17.9	It's not all that often that a snowy owl shows up in such an accessible spot.
1:22.9	I mean, it is literally at one of the largest transportation hubs on the East Coast, a few blocks
1:28.8	from the Capitol building and the Smithsonian.
1:31.9	You could theoretically enjoy the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and then walk over
1:37.3	to a real natural history phenomenon, not that the ones in the museum aren't real.
1:41.7	I mean, live, live natural history phenomenon.
1:44.2	I don't know if people are making that specific trip, but lots of people have seen the
1:47.8	bird. The eBird map is a giant cluster of dots on and around Union Station. I've seen
1:53.0	some photos of the bird sitting on the roof of Union Station. It's all just really very cool.
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