08-21: Newfoundland's Euro Vagrant Phenomenon with Jared Clarke

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Newfoundland lies on the eastern extremes of the North American continent, and every spring it hosts an always fascinating and ocasionally extraordinary array of European vagrant birds. The phenomenon that brings European Golden-Plovers and Whooper Swans and Garganeys to North America is fairly well known now, and Newfoundland birders increasingly welcome bird enthusiasts from all over the continent to enjoy it. Guest host Jody Allair of Birds Canada hosts Newfoundlander Jared Clarke from Bird the Rock Tours to talk about why it happens and what it means to be on the leading edge of continental vagrancy.

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0:00.0	Focus on nature, not your equipment with Zeiss SFL binoculars.
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0:15.3	You're looking at those warblers at the very, very, very tops of the trees.
0:19.3	Visit your local optics dealers or visit zyce.com slash nature to find a dealer near you.
0:29.6	Welcome to another episode of the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:35.2	I'm Jody Allaire sitting in this week for Nate Swick.
0:38.7	On today's episode, I chat with birder and tour guide Jared Clark about the
0:43.3	amazing phenomenon of spring European vagrants in Newfoundland. But first, here are this
0:49.9	week's rare birds. This is your rare bird focus for the third week's rare birds.
0:59.6	This is your rare bird focus for the third week of May, 2024.
1:04.2	Buckle up, we've got quite the week of rarebirds to get to this time around.
1:09.8	Late May is the time of year when the continental rarity watcher turns their eyes to western Alaska, where both Asian vagrants and bird tour groups are arriving in some numbers.
1:15.0	The first report of the season comes from St. Paul Island and the Pribilofs where long-toed stint is the biggest find so far.
1:22.7	But other notable birds seen this week include Siberian sand plover, one half of the recently split
1:28.3	lesser sand plover, along with rare waterfowl like gargony and smew. We move to a rather remarkable
1:34.9	list of first records this week, starting in Washington, where that states, first great knot
1:40.1	was seen among a flock of migrating red knots in Pacific County.
1:44.7	This East Asian shorebird has a rather bizarre pattern of vagrancy in North America
1:49.3	with records from Maine and West Virginia, along with the slightly more reasonable Oregon
1:54.9	and Alaska.
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