06-43: This Month in Birding - October 2022
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It's the end of October and time for our monthly This Month in Birding panel. This week features a fun crew with MD/DC Bird Atlas coordinator Gabriel Foley, Birding magazine editor Frank Izaguirre, and Sarah Swanson, author of the new Best Little Book of Birds: Oregon Coast. The panel geeks out over woodpecker brains, commiserates over the sobering State of the Birds, and suggests exciting bird costume ideas for Halloween, among other things.
Links to topics discussed in this episode:
2022 State of the Birds Reveals Widespread Losses of Birds in all Habitats
Never Before Seen Colorful Bird Hybrid Surprises Scientists
Even a Small Amount of Spilled Oil Damages Seabird Feathers
Woodpecker Brains Process Their Own Tree-Drumming as if its Birdsong
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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, and we at the ABA are excited to partner with the Cornell Lab of O to offer an amazing deal exclusive to ABA members. |
| 0:11.5 | ABA members can now get a 15% discount to any new subscription to Cornell's amazing new Birds of the World resource that is applicable for three years. |
| 0:20.8 | Birds of the World is a powerful |
| 0:22.0 | resource that brings deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of ornithology into a single |
| 0:26.9 | platform where birders can answer all their life history questions for every species of |
| 0:31.4 | bird they could want. It is extraordinary. You can get more information at birds of the world.org. |
| 0:40.2 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:43.6 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:45.2 | It is the last Thursday of the month, and that means this month in birding with a panel of fabulous birders to talk birding news of the last few weeks. |
| 0:52.1 | I want to get to that as soon as possible. |
| 0:54.5 | But first, a little bit of housekeeping. The ABA is a membership organization, as you might |
| 0:59.4 | have heard in my outros. As such, we do an annual membership meeting. This year, it will be in |
| 1:04.8 | conjunction with the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival, which is on Friday, November 11th, at 6 p.m. local time. I think it's central. |
| 1:13.5 | Always a good bet that we have a fair number of members there. But even if you are not attending, |
| 1:18.3 | you can make your voice heard. In fact, we encourage you to do so. Not only will we be |
| 1:23.1 | streaming the meeting on Zoom, if you want to attend virtually, you can get that link. |
| 1:27.5 | But perhaps more important would be a request for me to fill out a proxy ballot. You can do so |
| 1:34.1 | virtually with a downloadable PDF. The link will be in the show notes. There are a few board |
| 1:39.9 | members to approve some changes to the bylaws, updating language, and having to do with |
| 1:43.9 | running an |
| 1:44.2 | organization in the 21st century with computers and whatnot. It's pretty pro forma stuff, |
| 1:49.5 | but we do need people to fill those ballots out and get them in. So if you're a member and you're |
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