06-15: Building a Community of Birdstreamers
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
As interest in birding has grown in the last couple years, birders have turned up in some really interesting places, including the streaming platform Twitch. Dr WD40, Liz Clayton Fuller, and Ian Davies are birders who have figured out this live streaming thing and are using it to build a community of bird and nature fans in a seemingly unconventional place, and they join host Nate Swick to talk all about it.
Plus, if you want prairie-chickens, you've got to get to Kansas.
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| 0:33.9 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:39.3 | I am Nate Swick, and I'm back. Back from a pretty great weekend in western Kansas at the Kansas Lek-Treks Festival. |
| 0:45.3 | His first year is a festival, sprung up in response to the sad end of a similar festival in Oklahoma. |
| 0:51.3 | The answer to the question, if we can't find lesser prairie |
| 0:55.0 | chickens for a festival in Oklahoma, let's move the festival to where we can find lesser |
| 0:59.6 | prairie chickens. And Kansas still, thankfully, and for now, has quite a few lesser prairie chickens. |
| 1:04.9 | The most lesser prairie chickens at a number of lex that seem to my novicized to be fairly healthy. |
| 1:11.3 | But Nate, you ask, I assume, what does it like to go to a prairie chicken leck? |
| 1:16.8 | I have never done so. Well, I had never done so either before last week, so let me tell you. |
| 1:22.7 | You get up really early, like 3.30 a.m. early. |
| 1:26.6 | You drive to a field that, again, to my novice eyes, |
| 1:30.9 | looks like a pretty ordinary field. You get out. It's very windy, very cold. You walk out |
| 1:38.5 | in a direction. You make a left turn at a pile of cow patties. You walk for a little bit more. You set up a blind in the dark that is a little more than a hunting tent with room for about four people inside it with scopes and cameras. And you wait until the sun begins to rise. And slowly the birds begin to congregate on the leck and start doing their thing. |
| 2:02.1 | And you forget a little bit about the cold and wind there, and then you watch them until they |
| 2:07.3 | stop. |
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