06-08: This Month in Birding - February 2022
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's the last week of the month and that means it's time for This Month in Birding. And while February is the shortest month, we do not give you the short shrift with our panel this month. We're joined by Sam D'Jarnett from Always Be Birdin', Orietta Estrada from Amplify the Future, and podcast regular Frank Izaguirre of Birding magazine to talk about murmuration dangers, Rare Bird Alerts pros and cons, and a Black Birders Week temperature check among other things.
Links to topics discussed:
Birds Fall From the Sky in Mexico
Lead Bullets Stunt Bald Eagle Recovery
Where Have the Rare Bird Alerts Gone?
Conspiracy Theorists Cause Texas Butterfly and Birding Site to Close
Amplify the Future Birders Scholarship Fund
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| 0:33.3 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association. |
| 0:36.9 | I am your host, Nate Swick. It is the last week of February. We all know what that means. It's this month in birding. And if you don't know, well, you're either very new or I haven't done a very good job with branding. I suppose both are possible. It also means that the chatter at the top of the show is short to get to the good |
| 0:55.1 | stuff. So I will say, I have one announcement to make. I will say that if you are a young |
| 1:00.1 | birder, if you know a young birder, the deadline to participate in the ABA's Young Burder of the Year |
| 1:05.6 | mentoring program for this upcoming year is coming up. It is March 1st, so very, very soon. If you want it on that, |
| 1:14.3 | you'll need to do it in the next couple days. You can find the link to the Young Birder of the |
| 1:18.3 | Year mentoring program registration in the show notes. So with that out of the way, onto the panel, |
| 1:24.6 | we've got Sam Dijarnay, Royete Estrada, and Frank is a |
| 1:28.1 | geary here to chat bald eagles, big bonkers and not entirely pleasant Q&on birding mashup, |
| 1:35.2 | and a Black Birders Week, temperature check. Good topics, good discussion, all after this week's |
| 1:40.1 | weirds. This is your rarebird focus for the third week of week's reverts. |
| 1:49.7 | This is your record focus for the third week of February 2022. |
| 1:55.4 | One first records report this week, and with it, an observation of sorts, there have been five first state and provincial records thus far in 2022. |
| 1:59.5 | Four of those, including this week's new record, |
| 2:02.2 | have been goals. The outlier is the Rufus Beck Robin in Colorado. Those goals represent |
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