Located in the Central Flyway, Port Aransas, Texas boasts hundreds of native and migrating species with a gorgeous island backdrop.

With six sites along the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, the island offers up-close vantage points to marvel at the magnificent migrating birds that consider Port A the ideal restop.

Get your tickets to the Whooping Crane Festival and celebrate their annual return to their

wintering habitat. Go to visit portoransus.com to plan your visit.

Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I am

your host, Nate Swick. It is the end of the month,

which is time for this month in birding. But before we get started on that, I have a couple

things to note. First, registration for the Rio Grande Burding Festival is open. The festival starts

on November 8, 23 in Harlingen, Texas. We will be there.

By that, I mean the ABA, not me in particular, sorry.

But we will have a booth at the trade show, and you'll be able to say hello, get merch,

get coffee, all that business.

It will be fun.

Please join us, link to register in the show notes.

Second, it's been a few days since I recorded this panel discussion,

and in that time, there has been some new and actually kind of sad news about a topic we

discuss this month. So we talked a good deal about the American flamingos in Pennsylvania,

in particular, the one in rehab in the context of what should be done with it once it has recovered and needs to be

released. Unfortunately, that discussion is now moot as the bird died while it was being

transferred from the rehab center to a zoo for additional help. The zoo was seen, not incorrectly,

as the right place for this bird as it continued its recovery path, but it's hard to foresee

what could cause stress to an injured bird, and in the end, that transfer was too much. So

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