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Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American

Birding Association. I'm Nate Swick. It is the last Thursday of the month. So it's the

this month in birding panel. And this is a particularly long and

spicy one. So I want to go ahead and throw over to it. So without any further ado, aside from

the regular rare bird thingy, here's a panel with Dexter Patterson, Martha Harbison, and Jordan Rudder.

What a time we had. We talk molt. We talk shushers. We talk shining

woodcock butts. And we do it all right after this week's rarebirds.

This is your rarebird focus for the end of January, 2023. It's a fabulous foursome of first

records this week in the

ABA area. We'll start in Oklahoma, where a Sladybacked goal has been seen in Oklahoma City.

Reports of this species have exploded in the last decade across the ABA area from what used to be

a very rare East Asian goal Sladeybacked is now annual in the West and increasingly so in the Great

Lake. so it stands

to reason that we should start seeing records of this bird all across the continent. In Nova

Scotia, a gray-crowned rosy finch was seen in Green Bay. This species is the most wide

ranging of the three North American rosy finches, and this is to date the farthest east the species

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