08-23: Enjoying the Natural B's with Georgia Silvera Seamans & Natasza Fontaine

The American Birding Podcast

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Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Last week saw the fourth year of Black Birders Week, which continues to be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate diversity in the birding and nature communities. To help mark the occassion, we hand over the podcast to the host of Your Bird Story, Georgia Silvera Seamans, who brings our 2024 ABA Bird of the Year artist Natasza Fontaine, a working biologist in addition to being a science illustrator, to talk about her experiences with birds, botany, and whatever other natural "B's" she loves to encounter.

Don’t forget to donate to the ABA’s Nesting Season Appeal, which raises money for our excellent young birder programs.

Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it! And don’t forget to join the ABA to support this podcast and the many things we do for birds and birders!

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.

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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 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.
0:34.4	I am Nate Swick.
0:35.9	Not so much your host this time around, more your MC, because last
0:40.3	week was Black Birders Week 2024, the fourth year of an entire week, specifically focusing on
0:47.1	and celebrating diversity in our birding community. We're happy to play a small role in it this time
0:53.6	around with a special podcast episode
0:55.4	featuring Georgia Silvara Samens and Natasha Fontaine, both former guests on this podcast
1:01.4	and brought together to talk about Natasha's experience as a wildlife biologist and her love
1:06.5	of all the ecological bees. That refers to the letter, though it also refers to the insects.
1:13.0	You'll get what I mean here in a bit. If you were interested in following more Blackbirders
1:17.9	week programs, panels, discussions from the past week, check out the BlackAF in STEM
1:22.9	Collective's website. That's Blackafinstem.com. One quick programming note, we had a few technical
1:30.3	issues on this recording. We've mostly resolved them, but there are a couple of moments where
1:34.3	you might notice, I hope they don't distract you too much from this great conversation. So I will
1:39.2	send you over to Georgia and Natasha right after this week's rarebirds.
1:50.6	This is your rarebird focus for the beginning of June 2024.
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