08-22: This Month in Birding - May 2024
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Spring turns to summer in much of the ABA Area this week, and we celebrate spring 2024 with a birding podcast crossover event for this month's This Month in Birding. We welcome Mollee Brown, one of the hosts of the Life List podcast and Jason Hall and Dexter Patterson, hosts of the brand new, and very fun, Bird Joy podcast to talk about the mathematics of bird flocks, how birding makes you happy, and our favorite moments of spring 2024, among other things.
Links to articles discussed in this episode:
The federal government plans to kill half a million West Coast owls
How do birds flock? Researchers do the math to reveal previously unknown aerodynamic phenomenon
Why birdwatchers are happier than the rest of us
Bald eagles are back, but great blue herons paid the price
Don’t forget to donate to the ABA’s Nesting Season Appeal, which raises money for our excellent young birder programs.
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Thanks to our friends at Zeiss for sponsoring this episode. For a limited time you can get $200 of all ZEISS Conquest HD binoculars. Visit your local optics dealer or visit ZEISS.com/nature to find a dealer near you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Focus on nature, not your equipment with Zeiss SFL binoculars. |
| 0:05.1 | Optimized to be as lightweight and compact as possible. |
| 0:08.3 | Zeis SFL binoculars are up to 30% lighter than comparable competitors. |
| 0:13.5 | And trust me, that's important. |
| 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 |
| 0:21.4 | Zyce.com slash nature to find a dealer near you. |
| 0:29.8 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Nate Swick. It's the end of the month, which means it's time for this month in birding. |
| 0:38.6 | We go a little bit long this time around, so I'm going to try to get you there as quickly as |
| 0:43.0 | possible with just a little reminder that if you want to help support this podcast, you can either |
| 0:47.3 | one, donate to our nesting season appeals, ABA's nesting season appeal. It's going on right now. |
| 0:53.8 | You can do that at a B.A. at org slash nesting season appeal. It's going on right now. You can do that at ABA. |
| 0:54.9 | Atorg slash nesting season. Also, too, you can leave a rating or review on Apple podcast to help |
| 1:00.4 | boost our rating and encourage other people to listen. I'm not entirely sure how that helps |
| 1:05.0 | more than say word of mouth. You can do that too. But it is a thing that you can do and it doesn't |
| 1:09.6 | cost a single dime. I know, no, |
| 1:11.4 | not bird-related stuff. There's plenty of that to come. Molly Brown, Jason Hall, and Dexter |
| 1:16.9 | Patterson joined me for a great this month in birding panel, where we talk flocking math, happy |
| 1:22.0 | birders, and our favorite spring moments, all after this week's rarebirds. |
| 1:32.8 | This is your rarebird focus for the end of May, 2024. |
| 1:39.1 | We are nearly 10 months post-peak of the American flamingo invasion from the summer of 2023, wherein many individual flamingos were blown inland by Hurricane Adalia |
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