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Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.

I am Nate Swick. It is time for this month in birding, so we'll be brief up top like we usually are.

I do have some exciting news about the 2023 bird of the year that I will share the next time around when I have a

little more time to kind of spread out and do so. I'll leave that as a teaser. Come back next week.

Let's just get straight to the business this month in birding coming your way with Stephanie Bilke,

Jordan Rudder, and Birdie Castelabat. A lot of great bird thoughts, a lot of great bird discussions.

But first, the rare birds of the week.

This is your rare bird focus for the third week of August 22.

What a week for the Great Lakes region.

I talked about Wisconsin's first brown booby last time around

and how Minnesota birders were eager to add that species to their state list as well.

It happened not more than a day or two after the bird was seen on the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.

It crossed the river over to Winona County where it represents that state's first record as well becoming one of

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