06-31: The Fledgling for Young Birders with Hannes Leonard & Adrianna Nelson
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Close observers of the ABA might remember when we launched a new publication completely produced by a team of teen birders from all over the ABA Area. It's called The Fledgling, and after two issues it is well on its way to being something special. Hannes Leonard and Adrianna Nelson and members of The Fledgling team and they join Nate Swick to talk about this publication and the needs of young birder more generally.
Also, why do field guides to the US and Canada call themselves field guides to "North America"?
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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. |
| 0:20.2 | 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 | birds 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. |
| 0:39.4 | Well, and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:43.2 | I'm your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:45.0 | Did you ever wonder why field guides to the birds of the United States and Canada always |
| 0:49.2 | style themselves as guides for the birds of North America, despite omitting perhaps a third of the actual continent of North America and probably almost two-thirds of North America's birds. |
| 1:01.1 | That was a question posed on Twitter the other day by birder and artist Walter Cudendo, and it's one that I've always thought was a little weird, but I never really had any inclination to go down the rabbit hole as to why it is, |
| 1:11.8 | though it is a topic of conversation here at the ABA internally. |
| 1:15.7 | Michael Redder, you may know him. |
| 1:17.6 | He's been a guest on the podcast a couple times. |
| 1:19.6 | He is the editor of the ABA's Burders Guide publications. |
| 1:23.0 | He is a huge advocate for noting that North America is not equivalent to the ABA area, and they should not be used interchangeably. |
| 1:32.6 | North America, obviously, the landmass that runs from Canada and Alaska in the north all the way down to Panama in the south. |
| 1:41.1 | It might include the Caribbean, might include Greenland, depending on which |
| 1:45.6 | geographer you're talking to. |
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