06-10: BWD is Back with Jessica Vaughan & Mike Sacopolus
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The birding world was shocked and more than a little saddened late last year when the venerable magazine Bird Watcher's Digest announced that it was ceasing operations. Famously founded by Elsa Thompson and Bill Thompson Jr in 1978 it was a real tent pole of the birding community in North America. But the exciting news is that the magazine will be back in 2022, rechristened as BWD and with many of the same people involved. Jessica Vaughn will be the editor and Mike Sacopulos the publisher. They join us to talk about the magazine relaunch and continuing the legacy of Bill Thompson III.
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| 0:33.3 | Hello, welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:37.7 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:40.2 | I've spoken a few times on this podcast about my love for county birding. |
| 0:45.3 | My home state of North Carolina has 100 counties, which is sort of perfect for county listing. |
| 0:50.9 | And that my goal, for as long as I I live here is to try and see 100 species |
| 0:55.8 | in all 100 counties. As far as I know, this has never been done. It's not even clear that I |
| 1:02.9 | will be the first one to do it. It's sort of an open-ended birding goal, something I have in the |
| 1:08.2 | back of my mind when I'm kind of cruising around in North Carolina. |
| 1:11.8 | I say this because I shared some recent county listing shenanigans on Twitter the other day, |
| 1:18.6 | and I had someone suggest that I perhaps needed to be more neutral about county listing in general, |
| 1:25.3 | but I will not. I will not do it. I love it. It causes you to sort of |
| 1:31.6 | pay attention to the patchwork of habitat in a given region. It makes even a relatively mundane |
| 1:36.9 | birding outing exciting because you want to find things like fish crow or Savannah Sparrow or |
| 1:42.3 | American Kestrel. It's hyper local. |
| 1:44.9 | It's hyper aware. |
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