08-35: This Month in Birding - August 2024
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
It's the end of the month and time for This Month in Birding, our monthly panel with birding friends discussing the month's birding and ornithology news. For August 2024, we have a panel of Jody Allair, Tim Healy, and Sarah Swanson talking vultures, bustards, and the winners of the birding Olympic games.
Links to articles discussed in this episode:
How do birds communicate? Network science models are opening up new possibilities for experts
Loss of India’s vultures may have led to deaths of half a million people
Who Wins gold in the Bird Olympics?
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| 0:43.5 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. I am your host, |
| 0:51.3 | Nate Swick. It's the last Thursday of the month, so it's this month in birding. |
| 0:56.6 | They tend to run a little long, so I will get you there after a short piece of ABA business |
| 1:01.2 | in the form of a last call for this weekend's ABA Community Weekend in Seattle. |
| 1:06.9 | This is a free birding event with walks, workshops, birds and beers, or birds and |
| 1:13.1 | beverages, if you are underage, hate beer, or are a non-drinker. All beverages are welcome. |
| 1:18.3 | Juice, soda. Hummingbird solution. All fine. My colleague Kelly Smith will be up there in Seattle |
| 1:23.6 | this weekend. She's a delight. You will enjoy birding with her. Ask her about her chickens. |
| 1:28.1 | We do ask that you sign up on our website. If you want to attend, it is right at the top of |
| 1:33.2 | ABA.org, and be on the lookout for future ABA community weekends, including one at the end |
| 1:40.3 | of October in Sacramento, California this fall. If you are involved in a bird club that would |
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