08-42: Return to the Sky with Tina Morris

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The reintroduction of the Bald Eagle in North America is justifiably counted among the world’s great conservation success stories. Ravaged by DDT, the Bald Eagle was on the brink of extirpation in the United States by the 60s. As a young college student, Tina Morris played a large role in bringing this impressive bird back to the eastern United States, nursing young birds in upstate New York. Her memoir Return to the Sky: The Surprising Story of How One Woman and Seven Eaglets Helped Restore the Bald Eagle, documents these efforts. She joins us to talk about it.

Also, Nate is back from Georgia with a rare bird finding story.

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0:00.0	The birds and wildlife of Florida's spectacular space coast are on display at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival.
0:08.0	Scrub Jays, painted buntings, Caracaras, and American flamingos are all on the table.
0:14.0	Next year's festival features expert leaders that will help you find great birds and get great photos, boat trips to see dolphins, manatees, and maybe even whales,
0:21.7	talks and workshops featuring Rosemary Moscow, Ken Kaufman and others, and an expansive trade show
0:27.7	in Optics Hall. Make your plans now. Trips fill up early. The 26th Space Coast. Birding
0:33.0	and Wildlife Festival is January 22nd through the 26th, 2025.
0:41.4	Learn more at SCBWA.net.
0:51.8	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:53.7	I am Nate Swick.
0:57.3	Last weekend, I had the opportunity to speak at the Georgia Ornithological Society meeting at Jekyll Island, Georgia, one of the string of barrier islands
1:03.8	that the state boasts south of Savannah. I got to meet a lot of really great Georgia birders,
1:09.1	get my pathetic Georgia list on ebert up to something
1:12.5	approaching respectability, and I found a really great bird.
1:17.3	Well, I guess I can't say I found it.
1:19.9	Here's the story.
1:20.6	I was birding on Saturday morning with a small group of birders on a Jekyll Island hotspots
1:25.3	tour.
1:26.1	And the first place we went was this little public picnic area park on the south side of the
1:31.1	island called St. Andrews.
1:33.4	We spent about an hour and a half there.
1:34.9	Saw a lot of birds, including a good suite of southbound migrants and a few shorebirds,
1:39.8	et cetera.
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