07-29: Indigenous Reconnection through Birds with Alyssa Bardy
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Humans have loved birds for as long as there have been humans. And while many of us in the birding world stay a birder for similar reasons, every birder, bird-watcher or bird enthusiasts has their own path to this world, to this interest, and it is one that frequently leads to a greater appreciation of love of the natural world more generally. Alyssa Bardy has a unique take on that journey. Her’s is a story of indigenous reconnection and revitalization though birds, nature-study, and photography.
Also, what do Canadian wildfires mean for the birds that breed there?
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| 0:33.4 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I am Nate Swick. It has been a hot summer, to say the least, and not just because of the air temperature. Many, many thousands of acres of the Canadian boreal forest have been on fire this summer. And while that on its own isn't unusual, the scale of these fires certainly is. The impact on humans |
| 0:56.2 | has been noteworthy. It is officially Canada's worst fire season on record. It is not the first |
| 1:02.3 | time that air quality is impacted densely populated parts of the continent, but it is the first |
| 1:06.5 | time that we can remember it in the east. While the winds have blown the worst effects elsewhere, |
| 1:11.4 | the fires have yet to abate. The question for us, of course, is what does this mean for birds? |
| 1:18.9 | And unfortunately, it is hard to say. The boreal forest is mostly uninhabited, so we don't really |
| 1:24.1 | get to see what it means for the continent's most important bird nursery until |
| 1:28.8 | fall migration moves those birds southward and in front of our binoculars. |
| 1:33.9 | Ecologist Andrew Sullivan quoted in an article in Audubon published last month makes a couple |
| 1:38.4 | important disclaimers about these particular fires and their impacts. |
| 1:42.1 | One being that the boreal forest is a fire-dependent ecosystem. |
| 1:46.5 | It requires regular fire to open cones to create the habitat mosaic that can support |
| 1:51.8 | dozens of bird species. |
| 1:53.8 | And two, boreal breeding birds have a very broad range, typically. |
| 1:58.0 | So even though these fires are historically large, the boreal forest is so massive that |
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