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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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February brings an all-star lineup to This Month in Birding, with long-time friends Jody Allair, Nick Lund, and Jordan Rutter joining us to talk about all manner of birdy topics. The panel discuss the latest birding news including bird communication, low-impact journals, snakeskin in bird nests, and our favorite signs of spring, even if the season itself seems far off.
Also, our 2025 slate of ABA Community Weekends is up. Come join us this year!
LInks to items discussed this month:
Evaluating biotic and abiotic drivers of avian community mobbing responses along urban gradients in Southern California
Snakeskin Isn’t Just a Fashion Statement for Birds
Want to get a species protected? Publish in a small, niche journal
Songbirds socialize on the wing during migration, study suggests
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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. |
0:07.7 | They've renovated them with the modern burder in mind, burders who are carrying smartphones into the field and sharing their sightings online with burders from around the world. |
0:16.3 | The updated editions include all new text, organized by the latest taxonomy, refreshed art, and design, and all new range maps developed in partnership with Ebert. |
0:26.9 | And they've included Hawaii in the West Guide. |
0:29.9 | That's over 60 new species added to the National Geographic Field Guide. |
0:34.2 | But they have not changed the features that people love. |
0:37.0 | It's still a convenient paper bag. |
0:38.5 | It still has the navigational info on the front and back flaps and the thumb tabs. |
0:43.4 | The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of the United States in Canada, east and west, are available. |
0:48.8 | Wherever books are sold, these updated guides are perfect for novice and experienced birders alike. |
0:53.9 | Music These updated guides are perfect for novice and experienced birders alike. |
1:04.7 | Hello, welcome again to the American Burning Podcast from the American Burning Association. |
1:06.9 | I am Nate Swick. |
1:13.0 | Exciting news this week from the ABA and that we now have our community weekend schedule for 2025 up in public locked in for later this year. |
1:19.1 | ABA community weekends are our free birding weekends held at various spots around the |
1:24.7 | ABA area. The idea being that we come out, we partner with a local |
1:29.6 | birding organization, we help to host some birdwalks, some workshops, some birding birds and |
1:35.2 | beers-esque social event. Basically, it's an opportunity to reach birders all across the U.S. |
1:40.6 | and Canada and have some fun. These are all free, 100% free, but we do ask that |
1:45.7 | you register, of course. And for 2025, we will be heading to, drum roll and all that, Vancouver, British |
1:53.3 | Columbia, the weekend of June 14th and 15th, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 20th and 21st, Fort Myers, Florida, October 25th, and 26th, and back again to San Francisco, California, November 22nd, and 23rd. |
2:11.9 | If your city isn't on the list and you'd like to help us set something up, please let us know. |
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