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Well, and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I'm your host, Nate Swick.

Please pardon my somewhat rattley voice today.

I have come down with what I believe to be a pollen-related allergy illness.

It's not COVID.

I'm still COVID-free two years into the pandemic, though I certainly have been testing that more lately. It is spring after all, got to get out. Aside from all that,

I do have some very exciting news to share. Exciting for me, maybe exciting for you, could be.

The ABA is traveling to Panama this September, famously the only nation named after a Van Halen song,

visiting our friends at the Canopy Tower, which has become over the last couple decades,

one of the premier locations for birding in Central America. We will be traveling with the

incomparable Carlos Betancourt. There will be tanagers. There will be hummingbirds, there will be, if we are

extremely lucky, harpy eagle. You can experience them all with me if that moves the dial at all.

I'm very excited. I've birded Colombia and Costa Rica, and there's not a lot I love more than

filling those gaps in my e-bird map. So you get more information at the ABA website, AB8.org, slash travel.

It is available now.

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