06-19: A Reference for All the Birds of the World with Brian Sullivan
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Maybe more than anyone in North America in the last 20 years, Brian Sullivan has been deeply involved in things that birders do. He was one of the original developers of eBird, which hardly needs an introduction to listeners, and is now project lead of Cornell's Birds of the World. In the last couple years Birds of the World has absolutely become an essential collection of bird knowledge which is all the more amazing considering the scope of the project.
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| 0:33.9 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I am Nate Swick. |
| 0:38.3 | It is the biggest week in American Birding. |
| 0:40.3 | And if you are listening to this podcast on the day that it is released, which is May 12th, |
| 0:48.3 | 22, then I am in Ohio and I have a favor to ask of you. |
| 0:53.3 | I am heading to the McGee Marsh Boardwalk this afternoon, again, May 12th, 2022. |
| 1:00.8 | I'll be wearing an ABA hat. |
| 1:02.6 | I will be carrying a microphone. |
| 1:04.8 | I want your thoughts about the biggest week and about spring birding in general. |
| 1:09.7 | I'm looking for podcast content |
| 1:11.5 | and you can help me. So today and today only that again the 12th the afternoon I don't know |
| 1:18.7 | exactly what time as I will be leading a trip that morning but I'll be there barring some sort of |
| 1:23.7 | weather or illness related mishap. I can't see the future. |
| 1:28.0 | But if you're listening to this on the 12th, |
| 1:29.8 | and you are at the biggest week at American Birding, |
| 1:32.6 | come by the boardwalk that afternoon, this afternoon, I guess. |
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