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🗓️ 12 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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In 2014, Dorian Anderson pushed pause on his life, which at the time included a career in neuroscience research, a burgeoning relationship, and the ongoing struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, for an ABA Area Big Year. But not just any Big Year, one that was entirely self-propelled. His Big Year plus cross-country trek by bike is recounted in a new memoire out this fall Birding Under the Influence: Cycling across America in search of Birds and Recovery.
Also, a huge migration day in Chicago leads to an inevitable and frustrating bird window strike incident.
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0:00.0 | We'd all love to spend more time outside, see more birds, have more fun, connect with friendly people. |
0:05.6 | Our happiness depends on it, but modern life pushes us away from nature. |
0:10.7 | Enter Berta. |
0:12.1 | Berta is the new free app that boosts your bird watching experience, fun birding challenges, |
0:16.8 | leaderboards, and cool badges turn sync bird life into a game, and better still, all the sightings |
0:21.4 | go to help bird conservation. Come Bird with Birda, sign up today. It's free. You can find |
0:26.2 | Burda B-I-R-D-A on all app stores. |
0:35.5 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
0:39.7 | I'm Nate Swick. |
0:41.1 | Birding is in the news again, and I have to say it is fascinating to watch how rapidly these national news items have gone from. |
0:48.4 | Look what these goofy birders are doing to really sophisticated and thoughtful pieces on birding and bird conservation over the last |
0:55.2 | few years. There's definitely been a real sea change. This time it has to do with a massive |
1:00.9 | bird migration event in the Chicago area. We're talking millions of birds. You might remember |
1:06.7 | the famous Tattasack eBird checklist from a couple years back that included counts of hundreds |
1:11.2 | of thousands of individual warblers at a migration hotspot on the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. |
1:16.4 | Well, imagine that in the third largest city in the United States. |
1:21.7 | Friend of the ABA, Markey Mutchler and others shared an eBird checklist from Promontory Park |
1:26.8 | on the Lake Michigan Shore in the |
1:28.9 | city of Chicago with 25,000 Palm Warblers, 142,000 yellow-rumped warblers, videos of just |
1:36.5 | unending waves of birds, mostly unidentifiable passerons, moving southward along the |
1:42.3 | lake shore with the sounds of city traffic in the |
1:44.5 | background. It's incredible stuff. It was one of those days where the winds broke and pushed all |
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