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The American Birding Podcast

06-45: Birds, Wildfires, and Smoke with Olivia Sanderfoot

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7632 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A warmer and drier world means, unfortunately, a world in which wildfire becomes a greater risk. We know, all too well, the risk these fires pose to wild places, but there is surprisingly little we know about the risk to wildlife. That is the work of Dr. Olivia Sanderfoot, a researcher at UCLA looking at the impacts of wildfire smoke on wild birds and trying to answer a few of those increasingly relevant questions.

Also, a new bird endurance record!

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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 resource that is applicable for three years.

0:24.8

Birds of the World is a powerful resource that brings deep scholarly content from four celebrated works of Ornithology into a single platform where birders can answer all their

0:29.1

life history questions for every species of bird they could want.

0:32.0

It is extraordinary.

0:33.3

You can get more information at birds of the world.org.

0:41.2

Hello. You can get more information at birds of the world.org. Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

0:45.2

I'm Nate Swick.

0:46.5

The record for the longest nonstop flight by any animal has been shattered last month

0:51.3

by a bar-tailed Godwit that goes by the name of B-6. B-6 was banded

0:57.6

this summer in Alaska as a chick and left Kaskokwam Delta on October 13th. It did not

1:04.3

touch the ground again until arriving in Anson's Bay in northeast Tasmania, Australia on October 24th.

1:12.6

A grand total of 8,425 miles.

1:16.6

It's 13.5,000 kilometers for our metric friends over the course of 11 days.

1:23.6

The previous record was held by another bar-tailed Godw with the the tag 4BRW, good old 4BRW,

1:32.7

who took the Alaska to New Zealand route that was a comparatively pathetic 8,109 miles.

1:39.3

Sorry, 4BRW records are made to be broken.

1:43.2

Every great athlete eventually sees their record shattered by some young up-and-comer.

1:48.2

Barry Bonds passed Hank Aaron's home run total.

1:51.0

Christine Sinclair passed Abby Wambach's record for most international goals.

1:55.6

LeBron will soon pass Kareem's NBA scoring record.

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