07-13: This Month in Birding - March 2023
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Spring is in the air in March, at least theoretically across much of the ABA Area. And the last Thursday of the montg means This Month in Birding, our monthy panel discussion the covers all the important and not-so-important bits of birding news from the month that was. This month's panel features Brodie Cass Talbott and Sarah Swanson from Portland Audubon and aeroecologist Mikko Jimenez talking Audubon's name, Bell Bowl Prairie, and what to do about the famous Flaco the Eagle-Owl.
Links to stories discussion in this episode:
National Audubon Society Announces Decision to Retain Current Name
U.S. birds' Eastern, Western behavior patterns are polar opposites
Priceless Bell Bowl Prairie Demolished in Rockford
Latin American and Caribbean researchers detail colonialism in ornithology
Flaco, Central Park Zoo Owl, Tastes Freedom and Isn't Rushing to Return
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| 0:33.7 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:37.6 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:39.6 | It is the end of March, the month that, as everyone knows, comes in like a Limkin and out like a Lammergeyer. |
| 0:45.8 | And we are indeed taking on this month like a bearded vulture takes on a delicious marrowy bone this time around. |
| 0:50.8 | It is this month in birding, featuring a west-oriented panel of |
| 0:55.8 | Mika Jimenez, Sarah Swanson, and Brody Castelba. We talk Audubon names, Western and Eastern |
| 1:01.9 | birds. Flacco, the Eagle Owl, yes, we do eventually get around to Flacco, and much, much more. |
| 1:08.1 | Let's get into it, all after this week's rare birds. |
| 1:14.8 | Music and much, much more. Let's get into it all after this week's rarebirds. This is your rare bird focus for the end of March, 2023. |
| 1:18.5 | Florida continues to amaze this week saw what might be the Sunshine State's |
| 1:22.4 | fifth potential state first, and this one, like at least two of the previous birds, |
| 1:28.0 | might be an ABA first as well. A bird strongly suggestive of a Eurasian spoonbill was photographed flying |
| 1:34.2 | near Duck Key in the Florida Keys. That's Monroe County. The species is not, as it might seem |
| 1:39.6 | at first, a completely unexpected vagrant to the ABA area, there are a number of Caribbean records, |
| 1:45.3 | including multiple records from Barbados and singles from St. Lucia and Martinique, and even one |
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