06-48: Birding While Black with J. Drew Lanham
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
One of the issues that the birding community has been reckoning with for the last several years is how we can encourage a broader coalition of nature enthusiasts to join us and to share the joy of birding. It’s an issue that Dr. Drew Lanham has given a great deal of thought. Lanham is a distinguished professor of wildlife ecology at Clemson University, a recent MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, and his memoir, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature was published in 2017. In this encore episode from 2018, he joins host Nate Swick to talk about his experiences as a black man who loves what he calls one of “the whitest things you can do”.
Also, a small adjustment in our winter finch expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | Calling all birders, join us from May 18th to the 21st, |
| 0:03.9 | 2023 for the Great Salt Lake Bird Festival. |
| 0:07.5 | Don't miss the premier event for both amateur and seasoned bird watchers. |
| 0:10.8 | Enjoy workshops, keynote presentations, and over 200 species of birds. |
| 0:15.1 | Start planning your trip by visiting greatsaltlakebirdfest.com. |
| 0:18.8 | That's greatsaltlakebirdfest.com. |
| 0:26.4 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:30.9 | I am your host, Nate Swick. I have, well, I guess it's a correction, a core agenda to issue this week. |
| 0:38.7 | A few weeks ago, I talked a bit about the Winter Finch report and how my interpretation of it |
| 0:42.7 | was that the Winter Finch flight was going to be a little on the light side this year. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, as it turns out, I am evidently not great at reading the tea leaves, |
| 0:52.9 | even when those tea leaves are more |
| 0:54.4 | or less spelled out for me by Finch Forecast professional Tyler Hoare. |
| 0:59.0 | I said something along the lines of the prospect of a major Finch eruption being about as likely |
| 1:03.8 | as a limkin in Buffalo, New York, and ah well, time makes fools of us all. |
| 1:09.8 | Evening gross weeks are doing the thing this year. |
| 1:12.2 | Their numbers still boosted by a massive spruce budworm outbreak in eastern Canada, |
| 1:17.4 | interestingly enough, brought on by the global coronavirus pandemic. |
| 1:22.0 | COVID-19 prevented the annual application of anti-budworm pesticides, |
| 1:30.6 | and consequently, the budworms proliferated in places that they had been kept at bay for decades, which was great news for the budworm eating songbirds |
| 1:35.4 | and not great news for the logging industry. But honestly, they are not a very sympathetic |
| 1:39.9 | aspect of all this. Well, you know, at least someone came out of the coronavirus pandemic looking |
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