08-33: Take It or Leave It - Banding, eBird, and Taxonomy

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Break out the oven mitts because it's time to welcome a panel of birders to tackle the hottest birding takes we can find in Take It or Leave It. This time around we welcome ABA colleagues Michael Retter, editor of Birding special editions and North American Birds, and Jennie Duberstein, wildlife biologist and ABA Young Birder liaison to offer opinions on the scope of bird banding, eBird's tightrope between bird science and listing repository, and whether or not having multiple bird taxonomies is a good thing.

Also, a major bird mortality event leads to real changes on Chicago's lakefront.

Thanks to our friends at FeatherSnap for sponsoring this episode. Feathersnap is a smart bird feeder with AI bird identification capabilities that send photos of the birds visiting your yard. Capture every moment with FeatherSnap.

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0:00.0	It's the ultimate conundrum of any home bird feeder. You want to know what birds are visiting your yard, but you can't spend the entire day staring out the window waiting for them.
0:08.0	FeatherSnap is here to help. FeatherSnap is a smart bird feeder with AI bird identification capabilities that sends photos of the birds visiting your yard, or honestly, wherever you might want to place it, directly to your phone.
0:20.0	You can keep an eye on your bird feeder from anywhere in the world
0:23.2	and organize those sightings in the FeatherSnap app
0:25.6	or share HD quality photos or videos with friends and family.
0:29.8	It's solar power to extend battery life and build to withstand whatever weather conditions
0:33.6	might be thrown at it.
0:34.7	Capture every moment with FeatherSnap.
0:37.1	Learn more at FeatherSnapcam.com.
0:40.3	You'll hear it before you realize you've arrived.
0:47.3	Thousands of voices, then mist lifting to reveal a cliff close enough to touch.
0:52.3	Find yourself here amongst the astonishing colonies of seabirds, and possibly close to you,
0:57.8	to each other, in Newfoundland.
1:00.1	With over 350 bird species, the world's most accessible seabird nesting sites, North
1:04.5	America's largest puffin colony, and one of the continent's biggest bald eagle populations.
1:08.8	This North Atlantic Island is a birdwatchers paradise.
1:12.3	Binoculars may be optional, but this wonder is mandatory.
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1:25.7	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:30.0	I'm Nate Swick. What a difference a year makes. Not quite a year ago, I talked about a major
1:36.0	bird collision event in Chicago at the infamous McCormick Place, right on the Lake Michigan
1:42.5	Lakefront, following a massive bird migration night where
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