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Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association.

I am your host, Nate Swick.

It is at this month and burning episode, because it's the end of the month, so I'll keep things brief up top like I do.

But I do want to announce that I will once again be venturing into the wild world of in-person birding festivals this spring.

COVID-permitting, of course.

I am scheduled to speak at the Kansas Lec-Trecs Prairie Chicken Festival from April 7th to the 10th, 2022.

I'm going to see some prairie chickens, including lesser prairie chicken in Hayes, Kansas, in April.

You might remember way back pre-pandemic that I was scheduled for two years to speak at a

similar Prairie Chicken Festival in Oklahoma that was postponed and then postponed a second

time.

And in the intervening years, the lesser prairie chickens went away.

Maybe to other lex, maybe they just disappeared, but they were not

in the places where they could be easily accessed, and thus the festival's reason for existing

also disappeared. So we moved north to a new state with a new group of people, but the same

keynote speaker, that being me, to see the

birds and talk about why birding is great and why it makes you a better person.

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