08-15: Martin Migration Madness with Kevin Fraser

The American Birding Podcast

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4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Spring is finally on its way and with it, the promise of returning migratory birds to the United States and Canada. Among the first to arrive every year, and beloved among birders and non-birders alike, is North America’s largest swallow, the Purple Martin. With their chatty and gregarious nature martins have inspired so many people, one of whom is Dr. Kevin Fraser of the Avian Behavior and Conservation Lab at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. A migration ecologist with a particularly interest in neotropical migrants, Kevin has worked with Purple Martins for years, and he joined host Nate Swick back in 2019 to talk about the uncommon lives of these common birds.

Also, guest host Ted Floyd talks about birding and the recent eclipse.

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1:06.0	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I am
1:12.7	Birding magazine editor Ted Floyd, sitting in for our regular podcast host Nate Swick, who was out this
1:19.0	week. Well, I'm guessing that many of you reveled in or partook in or otherwise indulged in the
1:25.6	great eclipse of 2024. It was a total eclipse of the sun back
1:30.2	on the afternoon of Monday, April 8th, and it cut across a huge swath of the ABA area.
1:36.9	The eclipse per se was not an ornithological phenomenon, I well realized, but it was, I think it is
1:42.2	safe to say, a birding adjacentadjacent or birding-allied phenomenon.
1:47.4	Because everybody was out there talking to friends and family as well as to perfect strangers about the great eclipse of 24.
1:54.6	And isn't it the same way with birds?
1:56.9	Especially at this time of the year, spring migration.
1:59.9	We see a great bird, the first osprey of the season,
2:02.9	a flock of sandhill cranes migrating over,
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