07-27: Hear Birds Again with Lang Elliott

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It is an inevitability that as a birder ages, they lose the ability to hear some birds, particularly those with high pitched songs and calls. It is a struggle that nature recordist Lang Elliot has dealt with for decades, but he offers, with the help of modern technology, a solution of sorts called Hear Birds Again. Lang has also written an article introducing this new product in the July 2023 issue of Birding magazine.

Also, does Merlin really help in a Breeding Bird Survey? FInally we have data! Sort of.

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0:33.1	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I am Nate Swick.
0:38.5	My breeding bird survey season is over.
0:42.0	It is finito.
0:43.3	And yes, I know talking about your BBS is akin to talking about your fantasy football team
0:48.2	and that it's not nearly as interesting to other people as it was to you.
0:51.7	But you're going to have to hear me out for at least a couple minutes here.
0:55.1	Last week, I finished my last of three survey routes and they were slightly below average,
1:00.7	which seems par for the course, with what a lot of people are saying about this spring slash
1:05.9	early summer, but not so slightly as to be concerning. I attribute it to running them later in the period than I have
1:12.0	in the past. Turns out that that matters a fair bit. Two were in the midst of the weird,
1:17.2	wet, cold spring we've had here in the southeast and the last was in the full bore attic fan
1:22.2	summer. I bring them up because I talked a little last year about using Merlin on the root and my feeling
1:28.7	about whether that is entirely kosher and my desire, I guess, for a little bit of guidance
1:34.4	from Petuxet Research Lab, the USGS. This year they did, in fact, issue a statement affirming
1:40.4	that it is not okay. No Merlin on BBS routes, which is just as well. But now I'm sort of in
1:46.6	this unique situation to see whether Merlin made a significant impact on the results for my counts
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