06-06: Birdability for Everybody with Virginia Rose & Freya McGregor
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
We have seen, in recent years, an increased awareness of the need to make birding welcoming, inclusive, and accessible. There are many many avenues to making a reality. Birdability is an organization that seeks to do so for people with a wide range of disabilities, from mobility challenges to chronic illness to neurodivergence. My guests are Virginia Rose, the president and founder of Birdability and Freya McGregor, Birdability's coordinator.
Also, if not Burrowing Owl, perhaps Manuring Owl?
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| 0:42.1 | Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:48.1 | The 2022 ABA bird of the year burrowing owl has so far been a great success. |
| 0:50.2 | I'll be honest, we expected it would be. |
| 0:51.3 | Who doesn't love an owl? |
| 0:55.5 | So in an effort to bring you that extra owl content you are no doubt expecting in this year of the burrowing owl, we at the ABA are combing the internet's |
| 1:00.2 | in an attempt to find burrowing owl news. You might think that begins and ends with a Google |
| 1:04.7 | alert that searches for the keywords burrowing owl, and you'd be mostly right. But that news |
| 1:09.8 | can come from anywhere. This one came |
| 1:12.6 | from our brand new director of development. Thanks Steve Sebastian for fully embracing |
| 1:18.0 | the ABA organizational aesthetic of being about birds all the time, even if your specific |
| 1:23.0 | job is not really about birds. Anyway, it's an article from Christina Larson at the Associated Press about reintroducing |
| 1:30.2 | burrowing owls in Southern California from places where their colonies are under threat |
| 1:35.0 | to protected grasslands. |
| 1:37.7 | And as it turns out, while the birds are groundbreakers in name, they are not groundbreakers |
| 1:43.0 | in nature. |
| 1:43.9 | They don't really like to stay in their new homes, despite the apparently pristine habitat, |
| 1:50.1 | unless there is the impression that owls already live there. |
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