08-47: Random Birds XIII with Ted Floyd

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Birding editor Ted Floyd is back for another episode of Random Birds. Ted and Nate talk turkey, and lots of other birds, with the help of a random number generator and a big list of birds.

Also, Slender-billed Curlew has been declared extinct. What does it tell us about bird conservation?

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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.
0:45.4	Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:50.8	I'm Nate Swick.
0:53.0	Sad, but perhaps inevitable news this month came from our friends in Europe with the announcement
0:59.0	that the Slender Build Curlew was officially declared extinct, the recommendation of a paper
1:05.8	published in the British Ornithological Union's journal, The Ibis.
1:10.5	The last confirmed sighting of this long-distance
1:12.7	migrant was in 1995, where a single bird was photographed at the Merja-Zerga wetlands, a tidal lagoon in
1:19.9	northern Morocco that was known as one of the last wintering sites for Slyndrable-Kirlew.
1:25.8	Extinctions on continents are fairly rare, at least in the last couple centuries.
1:31.1	Island birds get a lot of the attention, and rightly so with the extinction crises on
1:35.5	Hawaii, New Zealand, Mauritius, and countless other places around the world.
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