09-28: The State of Maui's Birds with Hannah Mounce
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The state of Hawaii’s birds is a topic that is frequently front of mind to those of us who care about bird conservation, and on every island there are bird researchers and conservationists on the ground putting any number of conservation efforts into practice. Dr Hannah Mounce is the program manager of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, and she joins us to talk about some of the most pressing efforts on the island.
Also, Nate finished his Breeding Bird Surveys and hopes that this isn't the last year for the venerable conservation project.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:10.0 | I am Nate Swick, and I finally finished my breeding birds surveys for the year 2025, right up to the deadline. |
| 0:18.0 | I was a little too lazy this year. I know the program's future is still in doubt, but that's no excuse. |
| 0:25.4 | I talked a little about that a few weeks ago, and it appears that we still have time, thank goodness, to save the ecosystems mission area of the USGS, which contains the breeding bird survey and the bird banding lab, among other scientific endeavors, |
| 0:39.5 | whether the program's funding was removed from the recent Megabill passed by Congress |
| 0:44.1 | in an effort to make it reconciliation ready or it never made it there in the first place. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm not certain. |
| 0:48.9 | But the ultimate focus now seems to be on the upcoming budget, particularly the U.S. |
| 0:54.1 | Department of the Interior Budget, to be decided the upcoming budget, particularly the U.S. Department of the Interior |
| 0:55.1 | budget to be decided by Congress later this fall. In any case, I am heartened that my BBS |
| 1:02.0 | root results will find their way into friendly hands when I put them in the mail this week. |
| 1:06.8 | As for the roots themselves, well, I saw fewer birds, fewer species, and fewer totals. |
| 1:12.3 | I think there are a couple of likely reasons for that that aren't doom and gloom. |
| 1:16.4 | I did run the roots later than I usually do, and things have absolutely quieted down |
| 1:21.0 | over the last couple weeks. |
| 1:22.1 | Some of my really big misses this year, like Great Crested Flycatcher and Orchard Oriole, |
| 1:26.5 | or probably buckle down, raising young, instead of singing in the places that I usually misses this year like great crested flycatcher and orchard orio were probably buckled down |
| 1:28.6 | raising young instead of singing in the places that i usually expect them but the habitat has |
| 1:34.3 | certainly changed too that is in fact one of my favorite things about the breeding bird survey one of the |
| 1:39.9 | things that i find the most interesting one spot spot on my Virginia route where for the last |
| 1:45.4 | four years I've had singing American Red Star was completely clear cut in the 12 months since I was |
| 1:50.9 | out there. That part's not my favorite one. That was kind of a frustrating change. But in the places |
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