08-25: The Importance of Insects with David Leatherman

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🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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When birders talk about the importance of a bird-friendly yard, they often mean insects even if they don't mention them explicitely. And so people that want to attract birds need to get comfortable with bugs. Colorado birder David Leatherman is a fan of bug-bird interactions and in his piece The Importance of Native Plants and Insects Amid the Reality of Modern Bird Habitats, in the April 2024 issue of Birding magazine, he encourages birders to familiarize themselves with living bird food. He joins host Nate Swick to discuss it.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Hannah Floyd, editor of the fledgling and contributor to Birding magazine and co-leader for ABA Community Weekends.
0:09.0	The Fledgling is an ABA publication that's produced, written, and edited entirely by ABA Young Birders.
0:15.0	Through this publication, young people share our writing, photography, birding tips, and ways to better our communities through birding.
0:21.5	There is so much talent in the young burner community, and this is just one of the ways ABA
0:25.6	helps us showcase this.
0:27.3	We rely on supporters like you to make sure we can continue to produce world-class publications
0:31.6	like The Fledgling, showing the many ways birding inspires art and writing and helps build
0:35.9	community.
0:37.4	Please give a gift today to
0:38.3	ensure the future of world-class ABA publications, including the fledgling produced entirely by
0:43.2	ABA Young Birders. Go to aBA.org slash nesting season or call it 800850-2473 and give today.
1:03.6	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:04.8	I am Nate Swick.
1:07.2	Summer means a lot of things.
1:12.1	In the birding world, breeding birds surveys, bald northern cardinalsinals post-breeding dispersal, bringing wood storks to your local lake. But here at the ABA, it means one thing,
1:18.3	more than any other. Young birder of the year season. Our Young Burder of the Year mentoring program
1:24.8	has been for years, one of the most gratifying things that this organization does.
1:29.4	The program was designed to guide and encourage the skills and talents of young birders by providing advice from experts in our community on a number of modules, basically activities that we ask the young birders to do.
1:41.9	Field notebooks, illustration, photography, conservation. There are a couple
1:47.1	that are required, and there are a few others that you get to choose. The program has run without
1:52.5	interruption since 1998, and if you go back and look at some of the names, you'll find a bunch of
1:56.9	people who are making names for themselves in the birding ornithology and conservation worlds.
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