07-18: The New Pyle Guide is Here with Peter Pyle!

The American Birding Podcast

naswick

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

2023 ABA Lifetime Achievement Awardee Peter Pyle has probably been one of the most influential American ornithologists of the last few decades. His Identification Guide to North American Birds, informally known as “the Pyle Guides”, are widely known as the banding bible, and remain some of the most informative and intimidating bird books on birders’ shelves. The much anticipated second edition of which came out this year. But the's also the chair of the ABA Checklist Committee, and was central to the effort to shepherd the birds of the Hawaiian Islands, at long last, onto the ABA Checklist. He joins us to talk about the new books, checklist committees, and Hawaii.

Also, join us in Philadelphia next weekend for an event with the Drexel University Academy of Natural Sciences.

Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify, and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Join Western field ornithologists and Colorado field ornithologists for their joint
0:04.1	2023 convention. This will be the biggest birding event this summer and takes place July
0:09.1	19th through the 23rd in picturesque summer county Colorado. The convention includes four days
0:14.5	of field trips covering habitat from pinion juniper foothills to alpine tundra. It is a great
0:18.5	opportunity to pick up high elevation specialties.
0:21.5	Field trip leaders will include the ABA's own Ted Floyd, Nathan Peeplow, and the convention's keynote speaker, Jesse Berry from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
0:28.4	Other highlights include workshops, science sessions, youth birder field trips, bioblitz, and local, national, and international exhibitors for optics, tours, and environmental nonprofits.
0:37.1	For more information, and to register, visit www.co-birds.org.
0:42.0	That's www.cobirds.org.
0:49.1	Hello, and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:53.3	It is a busy time of year
0:54.7	for the birding world, and we've got some things to announce to that end. I've mentioned it
0:59.4	before. I'll mention it again. We will be at the biggest week in American Birding starting this
1:03.7	weekend, the first weekend in May, if you were listening, when this episode drops. I'll be there,
1:08.9	starting on Monday afternoon. Come and say hi. I will probably
1:13.1	be hanging out at the ABA booth most afternoons. And the next weekend, and this is a new thing,
1:18.6	I'll be in Philadelphia for an event that we are taking part in with the Drexel University Academy
1:24.7	of Natural Sciences. It's the Cheryl Beth Silverman Memorial Lecture
1:28.8	Series. It's called For the Love of Birds. It is an event Friday, May 19th at 6.30 p.m.
1:36.6	It will be a panel featuring yours truly, along with recent podcast guest and mindful birding
1:42.2	advocate, Holly Merker, and photographer and educator,
1:45.3	Anwar Abdul Kawi.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from naswick, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of naswick and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.