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Hello, welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I'm your host, Nate Swick.

Exciting news afoot.

I will be at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival next week.

I am not 100% sure what they'll have me doing there for the festival, but I will

be doing some stuff for the ABA, ready to man the booth, see some birds, and hope, hope

for a mega rarity.

If you are a podcast listener and you'll be there too, please come by the ABA booth,

say hello, I will have some stickers for you. They'll be there even if I'm not,

assuming I remember to bring them. We'll be doing our annual meeting and live streaming that as

well. I can't say it will be crucially important ABA business that you can't miss. There's a

kind of a pro forma aspect to it, but ABA staff will be there and you can mingle if you like.

I hope you do. In birding

news, a fascinating study published recently in the journal Current Biology looks at convergent

evolution and perching birds. And while my own understanding of these genetics and stat

heavy papers is mostly surface level, I am an absolute sucker for a beautiful

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