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Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Birding Association.

I'm Nate Swick.

It is the end of the month, so I want to get to the this month of birding panel.

But first, a bit of news.

I'm going to be speaking at the Manizales Bird Fair in Manizales, Colombia, the weekend of November 10th.

I don't have my specific schedule yet, but if you're going to be down there or you're thinking about going down there, please stop by and say hello. I'd love to meet any

listeners who are in the area. Suffice it to say, I am looking forward to getting down there again

and seeing Toucan Barbit's fingers crossed. Also, several other ABA staff members are going to be

at the Rio Grande Valley Burning Festival in Harlej and Texas that same week.

There will be a trade show where you can go and find the ABA booth and say hello to all

the folks there.

Please do so.

I won't be there, but there'll still be plenty of good ABA fun to be had at the Rio

Grand Valley Festival.

Let's get to the program itself.

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