07-11: Flight Paths, and the Wonder of Migration, with Rebecca Heisman

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We are in a golden age of bird migration science, and birders can only wonder at the ways in which we learn about bird migration in the 21^st Century. Rebecca Heisman's new book, "Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration" tells the story of bird migration research to the present, with all the amazing techniques and entertaining characters involved in figuring so much of it out.

Also, the Kowa Scopers are our champions for Champions of the Flyway.

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0:33.6	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm Nate Swick.
0:38.3	It's time once again for the champions of the flyway, the big day competition for bird conservation in southern Israel.
0:46.1	You might remember a few years back when I drove for an American young birders team.
0:50.0	We got a podcast out of it.
0:51.5	One of my favorites that we've ever done, actually.
0:54.3	Well, after a year of pandemic that made the event impossible, it came back last year, a little bit smaller, and hopefully at scale once again this year, it is a great competition.
1:05.7	I love the sharing ethos among the teams that are ostensibly competing and the whole goal is to raise money for a
1:11.8	species or a group of species in a country that desperately needs to help. There are a lot of
1:17.7	stresses on migratory birds in the region and champions is a great track record for getting money
1:22.3	to those critical places for those people to use as they see fit. This year, the species of focus is red-breasted
1:29.3	goose, and the recipients are the BirdLife International Partners in Kazakhstan and Bulgaria,
1:35.2	both places that host important stopover and wintering sites for red-breasted goose, which is one of
1:40.7	the world's most threatened waterfowl species and one of the world's
1:44.3	most spectacular looking waterfowl species. As is usually the case, we have some friends of the
1:50.6	ABA participating in particular, Jeff Bouten and the Kawa scopers. So if you are interested in
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