09-20: Random Birds, May 2025, with Ted Floyd
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Nate is in Ohio for the Biggest Week, but hew had time to grab Birding editor Ted Floyd for another Random Birds before he headed off. Ted and Nate trust the random number generator to turn up some exciting birds for discussion including jaegers, pelicans, and shorebirds.
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| 0:30.5 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:34.5 | I am Nate Swick. I am coming to you from the biggest week in American |
| 0:39.3 | birding here in northwest Ohio. I am sufficiently birded up after one day here at the festival. |
| 0:45.6 | It was a little bit of a cloudy, rainy day this morning out of Pike Creek. But the group that I was |
| 0:51.8 | with, we saw a bunch of really great birds, including |
| 0:54.2 | the warblers that everyone comes here for the best bird of the day, probably Blackbilled |
| 0:59.5 | Kuku, not a bird I get to see all that often, but one that is always a real pleasure. |
| 1:05.9 | I am busy, as you might expect, here running around, trying to get some podcast stuff recorded, |
| 1:11.1 | and of course trying to see as many birds as possible during my relatively brief time |
| 1:14.4 | here in the Warbler Capital of the world, well, yellow Warbler Capital of the world to be more |
| 1:21.2 | accurate. So I'm going to keep this relatively short of more about the biggest week in |
| 1:25.2 | upcoming episodes. Please be ready for all of that. In the meantime, |
| 1:30.4 | this week, I have once again turned to my friend and colleague Ted Floyd, editor of birding |
| 1:35.5 | magazine, author of so many different field guides to talk a little bit of random birds. We've got |
| 1:40.9 | the number generator. We've got the list of birds. We've got some thoughts about |
| 1:44.7 | some of the birds that can be found throughout the ABA area. I'm excited to share that with you |
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