09-13: This Month in Birding - March 2025
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
March 2025 brings another This Month in Birding featuring a panel of birding friends here to talk about the month's new bird news and get ready for spring. This time around we welcome Jennie Duberstein, Bird Joy Pod's Jason Hall, and Nicole Jackson to talk plastics in seabirds, new eyes on old maps, and the best bird to party with.
Links to articles discussed in this episode:
Fifty years of songbird maps take flight in new hands
Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows
How a hummingbird chick acts like a caterpillar to survive
Coming off dry January, these birds are getting a little drunk
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| 0:00.0 | Spring migration is here and you can take advantage of some great spring deals from Zeiss optics |
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| 0:27.5 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:34.5 | I am Nate Swick. It is the end of March. It is a this month in birding episode. Those run long. I want to get you there. |
| 0:38.0 | But first, for March Madness every year, I do like to take a second and have a close look at the bird mascots for the men's basketball field, women's basketball |
| 0:42.8 | field as well. I forgot to do that this year, so imagine my disappointment when I pick up my head |
| 0:48.5 | and notice that there are zero birds in the men's suite 16. The women's bracket is hardly better with one, and that one is a chicken. |
| 0:58.5 | Hello, University of South Carolina Gamecocks. Both fields were mostly bereft of birds this |
| 1:03.9 | year, sadly, though Eagles are always well represented. The selection committee, who sets the brackets, |
| 1:09.2 | gets a big thumbs down for me for putting two birds together in the first round, a Louisville Cardinal versus Creighton Blue Jays matchup that saw one of the most accurate bird mascots in college basketball, the Blue Jays, against a cardinal with teeth. |
| 1:24.9 | But with only one bird in both brackets making it past the second round, I suppose |
| 1:28.4 | we must turn our rooting interests to the next closest thing, at least evolutionarily speaking. |
| 1:33.9 | It was a great year for reptiles, with both the Florida gators and the Maryland Terrapins |
| 1:38.1 | moving slowly and only in temperatures above 70 degrees into the Sweet 16. The women, too, |
| 1:49.6 | celebrate our scaly friends with terrapins and the horned frogs of TCU. |
| 1:51.2 | So I guess if we can't celebrate a high-flying bird in this year's tournament, the next |
| 1:56.6 | best thing has to be a spiny lizard that shoots blood from its eyes. |
| 2:02.4 | Rift Ram Bazoo, give him hell, TCU. |
| 2:05.6 | On the show this week, this month in birding, we welcome Jason Hall, Jenny Doberstein, |
| 2:10.0 | and Nicole Jackson to talk plastics and birds, crazy camouflage, |
| 2:14.2 | and the best birds that you would want to party with, among other things, after this |
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