06-26: This Month in Birding - June 2022
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
It's the last episode of the month and that means it's time for This Month in Birding, featuring a fun panel of ABA friends discussing the biggest birding news of the month and more. On our panel this month, Sarah Bloemers from the hilarious Bird Sh*t podcast, Frank Izaguirre of the ABA's Birding magazine, and aeroecologist and birder Mikko Jimenez. They join host Nate Swick to talk Grasshopper Sparrow success, a new invasive bird in the UK, and the features you'd want in your ultimate birding vehicle.
Links to articles discussed:
Recovery of one of North America's Most Endangered BirIt'sds Reaches Historic Milestone
Scientists Develop New Methods to Improve Mapping of Bird Migrations
Britain's Birds At Risk from Asian Songbird
And also a link to the Twitchers documentary Frank mentions
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Nikki Belmontie, Executive Director of the American Birding Association. I want to thank all of you who have supported this year's nesting season appeal. If you haven't had a chance to support our campaign, I'm asking you for your support now. Visit us online at aBA.org slash appeal or call us at 800 850 2473. Our work is made possible by the generosity of donors like you. |
| 0:24.2 | Thanks and enjoy this week's podcast. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm Nate Swick. |
| 0:36.1 | It is a this month in birding episode, |
| 0:39.3 | so I'll keep things short up top. But I do have a couple things to remind you. Well, |
| 0:44.1 | one thing to remind you and another thing to just briefly acknowledge. First, the reminder, |
| 0:49.5 | I am helping to lead an ABA trip to Panama in September. You can head to ABA.org slash travel if you are interested. |
| 0:57.0 | And you can sign up to go birding with me in beautiful Panama with the amazing Carlos |
| 1:01.3 | Betancourt. |
| 1:01.9 | You heard him last week. |
| 1:03.4 | I can't wait. |
| 1:04.3 | It should be an amazing time. |
| 1:06.7 | And the comment, a couple of weeks ago, you may remember I talked a little bit about using Merlin |
| 1:11.7 | on the breeding bird survey. Ed Copkins left a comment on the ABA website stating that the |
| 1:19.2 | BBS is a single observer count and that Merlin is the equivalent of a second observer. And I want to |
| 1:27.3 | thank Ed for making that point because it is one that I thought about a fair bit before I decided to go ahead and do it. |
| 1:34.0 | I'm not sure that Merlin isn't a second observer. |
| 1:37.5 | I can certainly see where you would believe that, though. |
| 1:41.2 | My numbers and species were not significantly affected by its use. It certainly got a few |
| 1:46.3 | things wrong, so you can't rely on it completely. Its sort of spatial impact is limited by the |
| 1:52.7 | microphone that you use. And on my count, I did not count anything that Merlin found that I also |
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