09-04: From Dinos to Birds with Christopher DiPiazza

The American Birding Podcast

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

4.7 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For many of us, an interest in birds and nature started with an interest in dinosaurs. Which is approriate since that's the path modern birds took when they became birds. We still don't know a lot about how dinosaurs looked and lived, but it stands to reason that if one were looking to recreate things that came before and are no longer with us that you would want to look at their closest living relatives. That is, in fact what my guest Christopher DiPiazza, of Prehistoric Beast of the Week, is all about. He is a middle school teacher and a dinosaur educator, but also a birder and paleoartist. We talk about the overlap between bird science and dino science and how he creates prehistoric art based on the birds he watches.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association.
0:09.9	I'm your host, Nate Swick.
0:12.4	There's been a lot of talk these days about social media's place in the modern world,
0:17.9	the pros and the cons, the highs and the lows.
0:21.1	And it's got me thinking, you know, certainly the birding world has made pretty good use of the resources available to us over the years that things like Facebook, Twitter, etc. have been around.
0:31.8	I personally have found Facebook an invaluable place to share photos, to teach birding skills and bird ID,
0:39.1	to communicate with the larger bird person world, and certainly to promote this program.
0:46.4	And it still is those things for the most part, even if the algorithmic machinations of slowly,
0:52.5	sometimes rapidly, picked away at the site's use as a way
0:55.8	to promote the American Birding Association itself.
0:59.3	All this, I suppose, is a way to say that the ABA does maintain, as a benefit of membership,
1:06.1	a social media community of our own, called ABA community.
1:10.2	It's close enough to Facebook that you
1:12.9	would recognize a lot of the interface. And it is free by design, all the nonsense that you find
1:19.6	on other social media sites. It is mobile friendly. There's no algorithm. And there's already
1:25.2	several thousand ABA members,
1:30.2	birders, of course, who are using it every day.
1:35.6	And we've tried to recreate a lot of the most useful aspects of forums,
1:40.1	of listservs, and of Facebook in particular, to offer places to share photos,
1:44.7	field notes, ask questions about birding, bird ID, places to go birding.
1:48.3	We've been at it for over a year now.
1:53.3	And of course, you know, it takes a little bit of time sometimes for these social media efforts to kind of reach a mass to the point where they are especially useful.
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