07-42: The Wingsnappers with Barney Schlinger

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Manakins are among the most unique and fascinating neotropical bird families with displays that run the gamut from group line-dancing to bizarre percussive feather snaps. One species, in particularly, has long fascinated UCLA researcher Barney Schlinger, the Golden-collared Manakin of Panama and western Colombia. It is the subject of his book The Wingsnappers: Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird and he joins host Nate Swick to talk about it.

Also, the eBird taxonomy update is coming! What does it mean for our ABA lists?

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0:00.0	Located in the Central Flyway, Port Aransas, Texas boasts hundreds of native and migrating species with a gorgeous island backdrop.
0:07.7	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.
0:17.2	Get your tickets to the Whooping Crane Festival and celebrate their annual return to their
0:20.9	wintering habitat. Go to visit portoranzus.com slash birding to plan your visit.
0:26.3	We'd all love to spend more time outside, see more birds, have more fun, connect with friendly
0:31.3	people. Our happiness depends on it, but modern life pushes us away from nature.
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1:00.3	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. I'm
1:04.9	Nate Swick. E-Bird's 23 taxonomy update is coming soon.
1:15.0	A lot of folks probably assume that Ebert's changes are more or less the same as those made by the AOS classification committee every summer, the ones that we talk about with Nick Block.
1:19.9	And while that is usually the case, that is not always the case.
1:24.0	In fact, in recent years, Ebert and the AOS have diverged in some significant and not so
1:28.6	significant ways, and this affects ABA birders because the official ABA checklist is tied
1:34.1	to the AOS committee's decisions and not to EBird, which is the Clements checklist after
1:39.6	ornithologist James Clement, and most notably, is the taxonomy that most of us actually use
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