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The American Birding Podcast

09-21: The Biggest Week in American Birding Podcast Quiz Show!

The American Birding Podcast

naswick

Science, Birding, Hobbies, Travel, Birdwatching, Leisure, Aba, Ornithology, Nature, Birds

4.7632 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The 2025 Biggest Week in American Birding is in the books and the American Birding Podcast was there to host a fun little game with a few friends. Test your luck with our birdy quiz featuring a quartet of Biggest Week birders and guides along with special guests Wendell Troutner and Tyler Ficker! We've got modified anagrams, Star Wars crossovers, and more!

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0:00.0

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0:29.4

Hello and welcome to the American Burning podcast from the American Burning Association.

0:33.8

I am Nate Swick and I am back from a very fun few days at the biggest week in American

0:38.9

Birding in Northwest Ohio. I got some great birds, met some great people, saw a lot of

0:44.5

friends, old and new. And I recorded some fun bird content with a few folks I cajoled into

0:52.2

participating in my bird quiz game. So I'm excited to share

0:55.8

all of that with you today. Thanks to Tasso Kakoves, Marissa Martinez, Patrick Maurice,

1:01.6

Harold Leonard, Tyler Ficker, and Wendell Troutner for tolerating my ideas and helping me to create

1:06.9

something that I think will be a lot of fun. So let's, let's just go ahead and get to it.

1:11.6

The American Biggest Week and Birding podcast quiz show right after this week's Rare Birds.

1:22.3

This is your rare bird focus for the third week of May 2025. We've had a nice run of state

1:26.7

firsts for the ABA area

1:28.4

this week, starting in Wyoming, which is not a state we get to talk about that much in this

1:32.8

spot, sadly. But it hosted its first record of Tundra bean goose this week among a flock of local

1:38.5

Canada geese and Casper. Tundra is the more common of the two being geese that have been seen with increasing

1:45.1

regularity in the ABA area in the last few years. But a record for the Rocky Mountains,

1:50.5

indeed the interior of the continent at all, is quite unusual. Previous interior accounts have come

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