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Hello, welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.

As usual, I am Nate Swick.

I like to lead off usually with some big birding news and for North America this week.

It doesn't come much bigger than Hurricane Hillary's arrival in Southern California.

The storm spun up the west coast of Mexico, officially making landfall in Baja, California, about 200 miles south of San Diego on the 20th of August.

And the two days following saw significant numbers of storm-driven birds in inland, California, Arizona, and Nevada, including a couple first records, which I'll get to in the rare bird segment here in a bit.

I don't want to spoil it.

But for many birders,

tropical storms are exciting because of the potential for storm waves, typically ocean-going birds

that are driven inland by the tropical storm's winds or birds entrained in the eye of the storm.

I'm somewhat familiar with what we expect when a hurricane or a tropical storm like this comes

ashore in the southeast, but the west coast

is still a bit of a mystery box for residents there, too, as it was the first hurricane to make landfall

in California since Nora in 1997, a practically prehistoric era when it comes to bird reporting.

I guess he used phone trees. I don't know. Anyway, because the northwest quadrant of this storm

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