06-36: Mexican Birding Adventures with "Chucho" Moo Yam
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
ABA Birders overlook Mexican birding at their own peril. The nation just to the south of the ABA Area hosts amazing culture, friendly people, and fantastic birds. Guest host Frank Izaguirre welcomes Mexican birder, artist, and photographer Jesús Antonio "Chucho" Moo Yam, who brings tales of birding adventure and community involvement, and reports on the the growth of ecotourism in Mexico.
Also, check out the new Codebreakers feature in Birding magazine!
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| 0:39.4 | Welcome to another episode of the American Birding podcast from the American |
| 0:43.5 | Birding Association. I'm your guest host, Frank is a Geary sitting in for Nate |
| 0:49.3 | Swick, who, when this episode airs, will be in Panama on an ABA trip, birding his heart out. |
| 0:56.6 | So, as many listeners probably know, I've had the great honor for the past year or so of |
| 1:01.4 | being one of the editors of Burning Magazine, the ABA's flagship publication. |
| 1:06.0 | I've been splitting the regular issues with longtime birding editor Ted Floyd. So Ted does an issue and I do an |
| 1:12.8 | issue. And Michael Redder also edits a couple themed special issues per year. The issues I've edited |
| 1:18.6 | so far are the January issue, which was the bird of the year themed issue, as well as the April |
| 1:24.0 | issue and the August issue, which members should have recently received. |
| 1:29.8 | I hope every ABA member has loved each issue and found them to be interesting and beautiful |
| 1:34.8 | and informative. One thing I want to mention briefly before talking about this week's rare |
| 1:39.6 | birds and then speaking with our interviewee is a recurring feature called code breakers, which has |
| 1:45.7 | its first entry in the August issue. The idea behind code breakers is that when it comes to |
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