Join Western field ornithologists and Colorado field ornithologists for their joint 2023 convention.

This will be the biggest birding event this summer and takes place July 19th to the 23rd in picturesque Summit County, Colorado.

The convention includes four days of field trips covering habitat from Piny and Juniper foothills to Alpine Tundra.

It's a great opportunity to pick up those high elevation specialties. Field trip leaders will include the ABA's own Ted Floyd and the convention

keynote speaker, Jesse Barry from the Cornad Lab of Ornithology. Other highlights include

workshops and science sessions, youth birder field trips and socials, bioblitz, and national and local

vendors for more information and to register, visit www.cobirds.org. That's www.cobirds.org.

Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm

your host, Nate Swick. I don't usually like to lead off with

bad news in this segment, but an item came across my computer that struck me such that I felt

like I needed to. While the human population of the world has been dealing with the COVID-19

pandemic, the bird population of the world has been dealing with a similar sort of illness, a particularly pathogenic strain

of bird flu that has been running rampant through colonial seabird flocks for the last

18 months or so, and it is frustratingly finding its way to terrestrial birds as well.

In particular, California Condor, the species that was famously laid low in the 1980s

dropping to 22 individuals, all of which were taken into captivity and subjected to a breeding

program that eventually, a decade later, led to the release of several birds back in the wild.

And this is certainly one of the great conservation success stories of the 20th century.

The birds were released into California and Arizona.

They are seen there and in Utah and Baja, California, and Mexico.

People see them regularly.

They breed in the wild.

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