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Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Burning Association. I'm Nate Swick.

By now you have almost certainly encountered the word puzzle game that is sweeping the nation, the world, maybe.

Dozens of your friends may be posting their score on their social media accounts.

There's a friendly competition, lots of discussion, lots of learning.

I'm speaking, of course, of Bertil, the best, in my opinion, of the Wardle puzzle derivations,

because it is the Bird one.

Or, to be more precise, it's the Bird Code one.

Yes, Alex Tomlinson, National Audubon Staffer, has created this fun take on the immensely popular word game, but where

wordal is tired, stale, sold out to the New York Times. Burdle is fresh, new, authentic. Because

it, more than anything I have ever seen is encouraging Berders to think about, to begin to understand

those four-letter banding codes that

I know many of you have been avoiding. The codes that have started, many a list serve argument

are now critical information. If you are a burtel player, people who in the past might have deigned

to learn them are now coding out their common species, learning the difference between the code bank swallow and barn swallow, or even black third

of green warbler and black through to gray warbler. I have found that Bertel is a little bit

harder than wordle because you can't lean on English language rules because the answers

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