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Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Burning Association. I'm Nate

Swick. The annual Winter Finch forecast distributed by our friends at the Finch Research Network was released

this week. This is the 25th year of the report, the silver anniversary, which was started by Ron Pidaway, who sadly passed on

this year, but continued by Tyler Hoare and a team of birders, biologists, and foresters who

continue to make these predictions based on the state of cone and berry crops across the

Canadian boreal. The big question on everyone's mind in the wake of the report, is this going to be a big year for eruptive finches into southern Canada and the lower 48?

Your crossbills, your evening, your pine grove speaks, your red poles, and whatnot.

We can go species by species, or you can follow the link in the show notes to the more detailed reports.

But the rundown, as it is, is that most species are going to stay in the north, particularly

in the east, but there might be some movement in the Great Lakes and parts west. We'll see.

Some exceptions include Pine Siskins, who have already started leaving the boreal in numbers and

should have a sustained strong

flight all winter and both crossbills in particular the highly nomadic white-winged crossbills

red crossbills also might be on the move maybe later in the winter though get your recording

tools out as those different call types could turn up in weird places link in the show notes to the

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