09-05: This Month in Birding - January 2025
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the new year! For this month's This Month in Birding, we welcome an all star panel of naturalists and writers to talk about the month's bird news. Rebecca Heisman, Dexter Patterson, and Sarah Swanson join host Nate Swick to talk about loons, mosquito killing birds, cold weather birding tips, and much more!
Links to items discussed in this episode:
A focus on females can improve science and conservation
Coated seeds turn birds into mosquito-killing machines
Drivers of agricultural producers' tolerance towards less-charismatic avian species
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| 0:00.0 | I've got some exciting news to share. National Geographic has totally reimagined their popular and best-selling East and West field guides. |
| 0:08.0 | They've renovated them with the modern burder in mind, birders who are carrying smartphones into the field and sharing their sightings online with burders from around the world. |
| 0:17.1 | The updated editions include all new text, organized by the latest taxonomy, refreshed art, |
| 0:23.1 | and design, and all new range maps developed in partnership with Ebert. And they've included |
| 0:28.9 | Hawaii in the West Guide. That's over 60 new species added to the National Geographic Field |
| 0:33.8 | Guide. But they have not changed the features that people love. |
| 0:39.0 | It's still a convenient paper bag. |
| 0:43.5 | It still has the navigational info on the front and back flaps and the thumb tabs. |
| 0:48.9 | The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States in Canada, east and west, are available. |
| 0:54.5 | Wherever books are sold, these updated guides are perfect for novice and experienced birders alike. |
| 1:03.7 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. I am your host, Nate Swick. It is the end of the month, which means that I have for you the first this month |
| 1:10.0 | in bird for the year of our Lord God Bird 2025. I have for you the first this month in birding for the year |
| 1:11.0 | of our Lord God Bird 2025. |
| 1:13.4 | I want to get you over to that soon, but first, a little bit of institutional news, a brief |
| 1:19.5 | reminder that the ABA is not just a magazine and podcast organization. |
| 1:23.7 | We do lots of other stuff, including birding travel, and our 2025 travel itinerary is locked in for the year at our website, |
| 1:31.9 | AV8.org slash travel. Where are we going? Well, we've got some destinations that American Birding |
| 1:37.1 | Podcast listeners might remember from previous episodes might be excited about. We've got an adult |
| 1:43.2 | birding camp in Newfoundland in July, |
| 1:46.4 | led by friend of the podcast, Bird the Rock Guide, Jared Clark. You'll see lots of breeding |
| 1:51.8 | seabirds. You'll see caribou. You'll see whales, probably. You'll probably eat some |
| 1:56.1 | excellent seafood. Sounds like a great time there. We are also heading to Costa Rica this September. |
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