08-51: This Month in Birding - December 2024

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Thanks for another great year here at the American Birding Podcast. To close out 2024 we host another This Month in Birding panel featuring Jennie Duberstein, Mikko Jimenez, and Brodie Cass Talbott who join Nate to talk about bird brains, CBC memories, and old albatrosses. Plus, we make our predictions for what to look forward to in the bird world in 2025.

Links to items discussed in this episode:

World's oldest known wild bird is expecting again, aged 74

Experiments show backyard birds learn from their new neighbors when moving house

Study suggests there's no incentive for older birds to make new friends

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wayne Klockner, Executive Director of the American Birding Association.
0:06.0	Why do you love birding? For many of us, it's about the thrill of discovery,
0:11.0	adding that next species to your life list, or spotting one that is rare and unexpected.
0:16.0	Maybe it's the creative inspiration birds can provide to your art, music, or writing.
0:20.0	Or maybe it's the way birding can bring to your art, music, or writing.
0:21.0	Or maybe it's the way birding can bring a sense of peace, lower stress and help us connect
0:25.9	with nature.
0:27.8	Your donation to the American Birding Association will help ensure that anyone can find
0:32.4	a reason to love birding.
0:34.3	Through programs like the American Birding podcast and our publications like
0:38.3	Birding and North American Birds magazines, we tell inspiring stories and share advice from
0:43.7	experts on how to grow your birding skills. Through programs like community weekends and
0:49.2	young birders, we connect birders together to learn, grow, and form community around a shared love of birds.
0:57.0	Please give a gift today and become a part of helping others find their reason to love birding.
1:02.0	Give online by going to aBA.org slash appeal or by calling 800 850- 2473. Thank you.
1:16.2	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
1:20.3	I am Nate Swick. We've done it. We've come to the end of another year on the American
1:24.6	Birding podcast. And I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all of you
1:28.7	who continue to download and listen to the show who send messages
1:32.4	and say hello when I run into you in person.
1:35.3	It really means a lot to me that you continue to support the show.
1:39.5	And a special thanks to those of you who have joined the ABA
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