08-02: 2024 Bird of the Year Artist Natasza Fontaine

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The 2024 Bird of the Year is Golden-winged Warbler--the first of the charismatic and colorful wood-warbler family to be so honored. This gorgeous Parulid has it all, stunning colors, an important conservation story, and a unique taxonomic conundrum with its sister species, Blue-winged Warbler. A lovely illustration of a pair of Golden-winged Warblers on their nonbreeding tarritory in Costa Rica graces the cover of the January 2024 issue of Birding magazine. The creator of this year's cover is artist and field researcher Natasza Fontaine! She joins us to talk about her Golden-winged Warbler memories and the ins and outs of this year's BotY art.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Arizona Birding Tours, Arizona's premier local guiding service for birders and bird photographers.
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0:46.5	It's wintertime here in Delaware.
0:51.0	Time for ABA's bird of the year. About ABA's bird of the year. It's not about ABA's bird of the year.
0:58.0	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:03.7	I'm Nate Swick.
1:04.7	It is time at last to talk about the 20-24 bird of the year.
1:10.8	It is, as you may have heard last week, golden-winged warbler,
1:16.0	vermivora, Chrysoptera, along with the maybe conspecific but also maybe not.
1:21.7	Blue-winged warbler, it is the last holdout of the vaunted verminfora genus
1:25.9	that used to contain nine species of warbler's.
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