07-48: Secrets of Slow Birding with Bridget Butler

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

If there’s one thing that 2020 taught birders, its how to appreciate your immediate surroundings. The cancellation of festivals, international trips, and even many local bird walks and meetings encouraged us to be more present and local. It’s something that Vermont naturalist Bridget Butler has been pushing for a long time as part of her “Slow Birding” initiative. She joins host Nate Swick to talk about how birding can create a connection to yourself and the place where you live.

Also, cicadas have unseen impacts on eastern forests and birds are to blame.

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0:00.0	We'd all love to spend more time outside to see more birds have more fun, connect with friendly people.
0:05.4	Our happiness depends on it. But modern life can push us away from nature. Enter Berta.
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0:26.3	You can find BIRDA that is B-I-R-D-A on all app stores. Look around your home. I bet there's a bunch
0:33.9	of bird-related books or art. And of course there are because, well, birds
0:38.3	are your obsession.
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0:51.8	birdie things that allow you to dive deeper into your
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1:00.7	BRD-R-B-O-X-X.com.
1:07.4	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:11.5	I'm Nate Swick.
1:13.1	Every 17 years in parts of the eastern United States, billions of periodical cicadids
1:20.2	emerged from the ground as if from some subterranean alien invasion.
1:25.1	As you might expect, this inundation of insect protein provides a buffet for birds,
1:30.4	mammals, and other small predators. Like many of you, I suspect I have witnessed this. I have a vivid
1:35.9	memory of the last periodic cicada outbreak in my part of the continent about a decade ago,
1:42.4	and watching flickers and red-headed woodpeckers and great crested flycatchers
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