07-05: A Whole World of Seabirds with Peter Harrison

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

When it was first released in 1983, Peter Harrison’s Seabirds: An Identification Guide was immediately hailed as a classic of the birding literature, an accolade it not relinquished in 40 years. And so it was with much excitement that Peter released the New Identification Guide in 2021, practically a different and far more comprehensive book. Peter Harrison is an artist, an author and a conservationist, an MBE, and still perhaps the authority on the birds of the world’s largest biome.

Plus, an ignoble end to a first ABA Area record.

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0:00.0	Calling all birders!
0:01.5	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 season 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.
0:26.2	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:29.5	I'm Nate Swick. I heard a fascinating story the other day, which I will share with you here.
0:35.2	Do you all remember the Western Marsh Harrier that was seen originally in Maine,
0:39.5	then again in New Jersey? First record for the ABA area first confirmed, I should say,
0:43.8	lots of great photos taken in Maine, especially of this bird. I always try to be aware of the fact
0:49.9	that vagrancy for most individual birds is a one-way trip. It's not unheard of for individuals
0:56.5	to return year after year, but for the most part of vagrant bird, especially one that ends up
1:00.4	on a different continent, doesn't ever make it back to its normal range again. And that's fine,
1:06.5	of course, the excitement that these birds prompt the experience of seeing them, the community
1:10.3	that grows around them, the potential birders that they make.
1:13.4	It's all part of the game and certainly a positive thing in the end.
1:17.3	But rarely do birds meet an end as dramatic as that Western Marsh Harrier as we learned
1:23.4	this week.
1:24.5	This story comes from a U.S.
1:25.9	Department of Agriculture newsletter passed on from
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