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Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association. I am your host, Nate Swick.

The much anticipated 2022-23 Winter Finch Report is out.

Produced by Tyler Hoare, former American Birding podcast guest,

and the man who took over for burning icon Ron Pittaway and putting together the

forecast for what cool boreal finches might be hitting southward

in the winter. If you have not seen it yet, let me be the first to tell you that it is

probably going to be a slow year for you. I hate to be the bearer of, well, not bad,

not really even disappointing news, just news, It's the news. According to Tyler,

the cone crop from British Columbia Northwest Territories all the way to northern Ontario is bumper.

Even the cones in the high country of the Rockies are good all the way into northern Arizona.

What that means is that the birds don't have to go anywhere. They can sit tight

in their home ranges, gorging themselves on pine seeds until the winter ends. Their larders

are full. That means that birders in southern Canada and maybe some of the northern border states

might get some flights of crossbills, evening gross beaks, but the rest of us are

mostly out of luck. Red Bulls might move south because of poor birch crops, which is nice. And

red-brusted nut hatches might be more obvious than normal. But the classic winter birds,

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