08-36: Random Birds XII with Ted Floyd
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Birding editor Ted Floyd joins us for another random number inspired trip down birding memory lane with Random Birds. This time around Ted and host Nate Swick discuss the least of these, flycatchers and sandpiper, along with bitterns, warblers, and whatever else pops up.
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| 0:00.0 | The Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival is one of the biggest events on the birding calendar in the ABA area, and it's back and better than ever in 2024. |
| 0:09.1 | Harlingen, Texas is the perfect hub to explore all the amazing birding and nature opportunities that the lower Rio Grande Valley has to offer. |
| 0:15.8 | Not only the exceptional suite of birds that can only be found in the ABA area in South Texas, like |
| 0:22.1 | Green Jays and Hookbilt Kite and Common Parake, among others. But there's usually something a little |
| 0:27.4 | special down there, too. I don't know how the festival organizers do it, but there's no festival |
| 0:32.0 | in the ABA area where the possibility of something really, really rare is so high. And that's |
| 0:37.2 | before we even get to the |
| 0:38.1 | amazing speakers like Ken Kaufman and Amariash, the trade show, the field trips. There's really |
| 0:42.6 | nothing like it. It's November 6 through the 10th, 2024. Give more information or register for |
| 0:48.2 | this year's festival at RGVBF.org. The birds and wildlife of Florida's spectacular space coast are on display at the spacecoast |
| 0:58.2 | birding and wildlife festival. Scrub jays, painted buntings, caracaras, and American flamingos are |
| 1:04.0 | all on the table. Next year's festival features expert leaders that will help you find great birds |
| 1:08.9 | and get great photos, boat trips to see dolphins, manatees, and maybe even whales, talks and workshops featuring Rosemary |
| 1:15.6 | Moscow, Ken Kaufman and others, and an expansive trade show in Optics Hall. Make your plans now. Trips |
| 1:21.9 | fill up early, the 26th Space Coast. Birding and Wildlife Festival is January 22nd through |
| 1:27.0 | the 26th, 2025. |
| 1:29.5 | Learn more at SCBWA.net. |
| 1:38.9 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 1:43.1 | I am your host, |
| 1:44.6 | Nate Swick. When you are a birder, you are always a birder. It's not a thing that you can turn |
| 1:52.6 | off, even if you wanted to. Yes, I can go birding at my local patch with binoculars and camera |
| 1:58.5 | and all the accessories. But this time of year, this time of year when |
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