06-30: This Month in Birding - July 2022
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 28 July 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
July is awfully hot across most of the ABA Area, and we've got a panel with no shortage of hot takes for the July 2022 This Month in Birding. Martha Harbison, Nicole Jackson, and Nick Lund join host Nate Swick to talk about national birds, woodpecker myths, ravens, macaws, and how your brain works when you bird.
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Links to topics discussed:
Study Upends Theory that Woodpeckers have Shock-absorbant heads
Common Ravens Repopulating the Eastern US
Spix's Macaws Return to the Wild
Study Examines Memory in Birdwatchers
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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 birds of the world.org. |
| 0:38.9 | Well and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:42.3 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:44.2 | It is the end of the month. |
| 0:46.3 | That means it's time for this month in birding, the panel discussion that we do at the end |
| 0:50.2 | of every month. |
| 0:51.0 | That also means that we go on for a while about birds. |
| 0:53.6 | And I want to get you to that conversation as soon as possible, so I will keep things short up top. But I do |
| 0:58.7 | have a couple of announcements to make that I want to make sure that everyone knows about. First, |
| 1:03.5 | we're coming to the end of July, and that means we're coming to the end of our new member |
| 1:07.6 | promo, which means that everyone who joins the American Birding Association in the month of July, |
| 1:12.0 | you can see free bag of our songbird coffee from Thanksgiving Coffee Company. Your choice of |
| 1:17.1 | grind, your choice of roast. We have a lot of great options. It's great coffee. It's the stuff |
| 1:20.7 | that I drink every single morning. So definitely if you're interested in that, go to ABA.org |
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