09-19: The Birding Dictionary with Rosemary Mosco
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
When a person gets into birding they are not only confronted with a wide variety of wonderful and weird organisms but an equally wide variety of wonderful and weird terminology and jargon. It’s enough to confuse even the most enthusiastic novice, but hankfully, bird cartoonist Rosemary Mosco of Bird and Moon is on the case with a new book called The Birding Dictionary. This very funny addition to the birding lexicon features definitions for everything from adorbler to zygodactyl illustrated with Rosemary’s wonderful illustrations and she joins us to chat about the language of birders.
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| 0:29.9 | Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:34.9 | I am your host, Nate Swick. We are one week away now from the biggest |
| 0:40.0 | week in American Burning. I'm really looking forward to touching base with the burning world |
| 0:44.3 | after missing the event last year. And I'm here to share a little bit about what we plan to do |
| 0:50.5 | at the event, what the podcast plans to do. I will be recording some podcast content during the festival. |
| 0:57.7 | We'll have a little booth set up so we can get some good audio there. |
| 1:01.4 | There are clearly a lot of birdie folks around, so I'm not too worried about getting good |
| 1:05.8 | content. |
| 1:06.2 | But I do need your help, listener, if you were going to be there, and you're willing to have, |
| 1:13.0 | you know, a little bit of fun with me. Many years ago at the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival, |
| 1:18.2 | we did a live game show kind of based loosely on the old NPR show, Ask Me Another, basically, |
| 1:24.1 | you know, bird trivia and word games. It was a lot of fun. I intend to do something |
| 1:28.7 | like that this time, though not all at once, not one big, 45-minute, hour-long thing. |
| 1:34.3 | We'll be recording parts of it over the days that I'm there. So, you know, the afternoons, |
| 1:38.2 | probably of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. So if you're willing to help out, I will need you |
| 1:44.5 | Tuesday, Thursday, |
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