08-45: Hybrid Chickadee Challenges with Amber Rice and Scott Taylor

The American Birding Podcast

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The friendly and familiar chickadees are endearing yard birds in nearly all parts of the ABA Area, but there is more than meets the eye for these feeder friends, especially in places where two species interact. Chickadees and chickadee hybrids are allowing researchers to ask some fascinating questions about hybrid fitness, evolution, and climate change. Drs Amber Rice of Lehigh University and Scott Taylor of the University of Colorado-Boulder are exploring some of these questions with Carolina, Black-capped, and Mountain Chickadees and they join us to talk about their findings and the program they've developed for secondary students.

Also, more on smart feeders from Nate's backyard.

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0:00.0	The birds and wildlife of Florida's spectacular space coast are on display at the Space Coast
0:06.0	Birding and Wildlife Festival. Scrub Jays, painted buntings, Caracaras, and American flamingos are
0:11.9	all on the table. Next year's festival features expert leaders that will help you find great birds
0:16.8	and get great photos, boat trips to see dolphins, manatees, and maybe even whales,
0:21.2	talks and workshops featuring Rosemary Moscow, Ken Kaufman and others,
0:26.0	and an expansive trade show in Optics Hall.
0:28.4	Make your plans now.
0:29.5	Trips fill up early.
0:30.4	The 26th's Space Coast.
0:32.3	Birding and Wildlife Festival is January 22nd through the 26th, 2025.
0:37.3	Learn more at SCBWA.net.
0:45.5	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:49.4	I'm Nate Swick.
0:50.4	Last week's intro conversation on this month and burning about my new smart feeder from FeatherSnap was messed up by a technological glitch.
0:59.0	Maybe that's a little ironic, come to think of it.
1:01.0	So a lot of the conversation was sent to that great waste bin icon in the sky.
1:06.0	And as I was editing that portion of the episode last week, I was thinking a little bit about what I wanted to say in that conversation, what I had meant to say, what had been lost in that conversation,
1:16.1	and with apologies to Nick, Jason, and Perbita, who don't have the luxury of hosting a podcast
1:21.8	that allows them to circle back around things that were missed. I've got some thoughts on this whole thing that I
1:28.3	wanted to go a little further on because, well, a couple weeks have passed since that conversation,
1:33.5	and my thoughts have only sort of solidified in that regard. Since that last conversation,
1:39.1	I'm now up to seven species on my Feather Snap feeder. In addition to the chickadee and the tip mouse, I now have
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