06-33: The Nature of Nutcrackers with Peri Sasnett
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
One of the most iconic and beloved birds of the North American west is the Clark's Nutcracker, the highlight of anyone's trip to the high country. It will come as no surprise to anyone that the bird's relationship to the ecosystem goes beyond begging for trail mix from hikers, a fascinating symbiosis that was recently the topic of Glacier National Park's Headwaters podcast, whose host, Peri Sasnett, joins us to talk nutcrackers and conservation.
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| 0:31.7 | It is extraordinary. You can get more information at birds of the world.org. |
| 0:39.5 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:43.6 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:45.6 | Welcome to the ABA checklist, Chihuahuan Medal Arc, the result of an accepted split by |
| 0:49.9 | the American Ornithological Society's North American Classification Committee. |
| 0:55.5 | It is a southwestern U.S. Western Mexico species that for years was considered a distinct |
| 1:00.8 | subspecies of Eastern Metal Arc. |
| 1:03.6 | The research that led to this split was undertaken by ABA Youngburder alum Johanna |
| 1:09.3 | Beam, who at the time was an undergraduate, |
| 1:12.4 | a fact that I find really amazing. |
| 1:15.9 | She found that the now Chihuahuan metal arc was not actually very closely related at all |
| 1:20.7 | to either of our known metal arc species and was, in fact, if you had to pick one of them, |
| 1:25.9 | was actually closer to Western than to Eastern, |
| 1:29.2 | the species that it was stuck with for decades. |
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