07-36: Lifer Momos and Monals with Anuj Ghimire

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Moving to Nepal to North Dakota offers quite the ornithological whiplash, but birder and graduate student Anuj Ghimire takes it all in good stride. He joins guest host and Birding magazine editor Frank Izaguirre to talk Himalayan pheasants, North Dakota nemeses, and where to find Nepali food in Fargo.

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0:33.9	Welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:39.5	I'm your guest host, Frank is Aguirre, sitting in for Nate Swick.
0:43.5	Before we get to the interview, which is really great, I wanted to talk a little bit about something so cool that happened to me recently in my role as an editor of Birding Magazine.
0:55.0	I received back issues of birding since even decades before I was an ABA member.
1:00.6	The earliest is from 1969.
1:03.2	And one of the coolest things, to my surprise, as I was looking through those,
1:07.5	was reading some of the letters to the editor from like the early
1:12.3	70s.
1:13.9	So here's one.
1:15.7	Birding improves with each issue.
1:17.9	It's the one thing I watch for in the mail.
1:22.1	That was sent to the ABA from someone named Dick Anderson in St. Louis, Missouri in volume 3, number 6,
1:31.5	the November, December issue of 1971. That is exactly how I want ABA members to feel when they
1:39.6	see birding in their mailboxes. I want people to feel so excited to see what's inside and start reading
1:47.2	the articles and just flipping through and looking at the photos and maybe reading a few captions.
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