06-29: Meet the New ABA Executive Director, Nikki Belmonte
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Back in May of this year, the American Birding Association announced the hiring of Nikki Belmonte as the organization's newest Executive Director. She comes to us with a background in non-profit management, environmental education, and as a hobby birder. We're excited to welcome her to the podcast to talk about birding community, CBCs, and the best flannel to cover up your nerdy bird shirt.
Also, hoat is the deal with the Hoatzin?
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| 0:00.0 | I think we all know the pedigree of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology when it comes to bird resources, |
| 0:04.5 | and we at the ABA are excited to partner with the Cornell Lab of O to offer an amazing deal |
| 0:09.1 | exclusive to ABA members. |
| 0:11.0 | ABA members can now get a 15% discount to any new subscription to Cornell's amazing new |
| 0:15.8 | Birds of the World resource that is applicable for three years. |
| 0:20.3 | Birds of the World is a powerful resource that brings |
| 0:22.3 | deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of Ornithology into a single platform where |
| 0:27.6 | birders can answer all their life history questions for every species of bird they could want. |
| 0:31.7 | It is extraordinary. You can get more information at birdsof the world.org. |
| 0:39.6 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American |
| 0:42.0 | Birding Association. I am your host Nate Swick. What is the deal with |
| 0:47.8 | Watson? That is the question asked by Ben Crair in a recent article in The New Yorker. |
| 0:53.5 | Of course, bird folks probably know a little bit about what is going on. |
| 0:56.1 | The Watson is a truly bizarre bird that has been something of a taxonomic conundrum for centuries, |
| 1:03.3 | I think it's fair to say. |
| 1:05.5 | It lives in these Oxbow lakes in Amazonian South America. |
| 1:08.5 | It has been described as a punk rock chicken. It eats plants and thus |
| 1:13.4 | smells funny because it digest leaves through fermentation like a cow. Its babies have |
| 1:18.8 | honest to God claws on the wings to help it to scramble through Riverside vegetation like |
| 1:24.7 | some sort of awkward monkey. I could go it is a very very weird bird and the |
| 1:31.1 | question of course has always been where does it fit in the great spreading evolutionary bush |
| 1:37.0 | charles darwin's famous tree of life that is birds is it close to cuck, taracos? Back when taxonomists used to use |
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