06-09: Eavesdropping on Birds with Tessa Rhinehart
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If a bird calls in a forest, or a swamp, or a grassland, and no birder is there to hear it, did that vocalization really happen? The birds sounds we miss contain so much information about bird behavior and populations, wouldn't it be useful if we could hear those sounds surreptitiously. That's the work of Tessa Rhinehart, a researcher, birder, and mathematician at the University of Pittsburgh who trains computers to identify birds for science and conservation.
Also, birders in Nova Scotia get a car company to overhaul their commercial.
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| 0:33.4 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:39.8 | Raising the profile of birding among the general public does not just mean |
| 0:44.2 | familian flycatchers and Doritos commercials. |
| 0:46.3 | It means that the hobby of birding is increasingly being used to sell various outdoorsy |
| 0:51.6 | and outdoors adjacent products. And you know me, I am a student of birding in the |
| 0:57.1 | popular culture, as someone who has both a personal and professional interest in the ways in which |
| 1:02.2 | birding and birders are portrayed by non-birders. To that end, I draw your attention to a commercial |
| 1:09.1 | that aired in Canada for the car company |
| 1:12.1 | Kia, no doubt trying to get a piece of that sweet, sweet birding money that Subaru has kept |
| 1:16.8 | its goshawk-esque grip on for many years. |
| 1:20.2 | In any case, the original TV spot features a pair of birders in their Kia who come across |
| 1:26.5 | a pair of computer-generated snowy owls |
| 1:29.7 | and decide that they are going to chase the birds as they fly away. |
| 1:33.6 | And in the commercial, they are legitimately chasing the owls, as I understand it, |
| 1:37.8 | which shows off the exceptional handling of the Kia Sorrento and challenging snowy conditions. |
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