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

I am your host, Nate Swick. We have reached the end of another month, and in the cycle of this

podcast, that means this month in birding. For the birds themselves, it really doesn't mean

anything, except for the slow

rotation to fall, molt, post-breeding dispersal, and eventually migration. The best time of year for me

as a birder in the southeast where mild weather means southbound birds linger a little bit,

westerly winds mean the prospect of vagrancy, but not to get ahead of myself here. It's still quite hot,

still quite humid where I am. But before I move into the panel discussion, I've got just a little

housekeeping to take care of. We haven't talked much about it here, but the ABA offers some

exciting travel opportunities. You get to bird with the ABA in some pretty exceptional places.

We're heading to Costa Rica and September and Eastern Columbia in November. There are spots available on both. Amazing birding in those places, I don't have to tell you. One of these days,

I'll get on one of those trips and be sure to tell you about it as well.

The ABA is also hosting three community weekends, free birding weekends

this fall in Pittsburgh, in September, Fort Myers, Florida, and October, and in San Francisco

in November. Those are all free. They offer some birding trips, some birding workshops,

and a lot of fun meeting with fellow birders and

getting to know some of us here at the ABA.

You can learn more about all of these events at ABA.org slash travel and ABA.org slash

ABA community weekends, respectively.

So on to the show itself this month in birding with Dexter Patterson, Rebecca Heisman, and Nick Lund, all after this week's rarebirds.

This is your rare bird focus for the end of July 2025.

Shorebird vagrancy season is on, and the first

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