08-16: Take it or Leave It - Seawatching, Records Committees, and Owls
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 18 April 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Birders are full of strong opinions, some serious and some silly. In this new feature, we invite friends on to discuss the spiciest bird takes we can find to determine whether we Take it or Leave it. George Armistead and Amy Davis join host Nate Swick to talk about spark birds, seawatching, records committees, and whether we should shre the locations of owls more frequently.
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| 1:05.3 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm your host, Nate Swick, back, at least for the time being. |
| 1:14.0 | Thanks to my ABA colleagues for helping me out the last couple weeks. |
| 1:17.3 | I can't say I'm back permanently just yet, so you'll hear from others again in the future. |
| 1:22.5 | But for now, you've got me. |
| 1:25.0 | What to talk about? |
| 1:26.1 | Well, I wish I could say I've been doing a lot of birding |
| 1:29.2 | lately, but the truth is I haven't. But even though my active bends out, e-bird-oriented outings |
| 1:35.3 | are fewer, it's hard not to notice the comings and goings of birds in my neighborhood or at my |
| 1:40.2 | kids' soccer games or anywhere I happen to be. The Northern Mockingbird on my neighbor's |
| 1:46.0 | house with its truly impressive suburban repertoire as I take out the garbage bins to the curb |
| 1:51.2 | in the morning, the dark-eyed junko picking its way through the Katkins and the Bradford pear |
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