08-19: The Birds that Audubon Missed with Kenn Kaufman
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The ambitions, egos, and adventure surrounding 18th and 19th century American ornithology affect birding and bird study to this day. We welcome author, artist, and naturalist Kenn Kaufman, who has tackled this fascinating period in a new book The Birds that Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness, looking at John James Audubon, Alexander Wilson, and their peers through the lens of the common and widespread birds they did not find and describe, rather than the many many that they did.
Are we in a golden age of bird-watching? Maybe, but maybe not.
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| 0:16.0 | You're looking at those warblers at the very, very, very tops of the trees. |
| 0:20.0 | Visit your local optics dealers or visit zice.com slash nature to find a dealer near you. |
| 0:31.6 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:36.3 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:39.1 | Are we in the golden age of bird watching? Kate Wong, writing for a scientific American, |
| 0:45.3 | believe so, in an essay that came out at the end of last month. And to be fair, she makes a very |
| 0:50.5 | compelling argument. It's one that I've made here in this space, probably more than once. |
| 0:56.8 | The idea being that we are in an age of technological plenty and the tools at a bird's disposal |
| 1:02.8 | have never been as plentiful or as useful. |
| 1:06.3 | More, the community has never been as accessible or as diverse. |
| 1:11.4 | The burning festival circuit is lively. |
| 1:14.0 | My social media is certainly crawling with friends attending this week's biggest week |
| 1:17.8 | in American Birding in Ohio. |
| 1:19.7 | And there are similar festivals in San Diego, in South Texas, and Florida, |
| 1:24.1 | and Indiana, and Maine, and more popping up seemingly every year. |
| 1:28.4 | There are countless books from natural history publishers and general public publishers |
| 1:32.6 | about birds. |
| 1:34.1 | There are tours to bird-rich destinations being offered by tour companies beyond those |
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