07-20: Halcyon Kingfisher Journeys with Marina Richie

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Despite being such a charismatic bird, there are very few books about our 2023 Bird of the Year Belted Kingfisher, but this week's guest Marina Richie has written one. Her 2022 title, Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher documents the seven years she spent watching a pair of kingfishers near her home in Missoula, Montana, and her relationship with the birds and with herself. She also writes about it in an upcoming issue of Birding magazine

Also, Nate is back from the Biggest Week in American Birding

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Nikki Belmonti, executive director of the American Birding Association.
0:04.8	We are so excited to kick off our 2023 nesting season appeal.
0:09.5	This year, we are celebrating the changemakers in our young birder programs.
0:13.8	The amazing work of these young people are a direct result of ABA's young birder programs.
0:19.5	These programs provide a starting point for youth to become lifelong burders and conservationists.
0:25.6	The ABA Young Bitter programs are made possible by the generosity of donors like you.
0:31.0	Please donate online at aBA.org slash appeal or call us at 800 850-2473. Thank you for your support. Now, enjoy this week's podcast.
0:47.9	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. I am
0:52.5	Nate Swick. And I am back from an all too brief trip to Ohio for the biggest week.
0:57.8	More than any other event on the birding calendar, I think biggest week is a homecoming. It's the time I get to see so many people that I frequently only see for those few days in Ohio. And that is super great.
1:10.8	I want to thank all the listeners who came up
1:12.4	and said hello and that they enjoyed the podcast. It is very gratifying to meet people on the
1:16.8	other side of the microphone. I do my part of this show in my own room, my own home, wholly separate
1:22.9	from the people that consume it, and it means a lot to know that there are folks out there
1:26.5	actually enjoying what we do here. So thanks for that. To those of you I missed, I'm sorry. It's a very short
1:34.0	trip for me this year. Next year, schedule permitting. We'll do a longer one. As for the burning,
1:40.5	it was in the first few days of the festival, what a lot of Ohio regulars would call a little slow.
1:46.7	The diversity was there.
1:47.7	The numbers just weren't.
1:49.4	But come Thursday night, the winds changed.
1:52.0	And Friday morning on the boardwalk, the morning I had to drive back home, was very good.
1:56.5	I saw lots of the regulars in the short time I was there.
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