09-35: This Month in Birding - August 2025
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
It's This Month in Birding for August 2025 and, as we do at the end of every month, we've got a great panel of birders to discuss the month's birding news and scientific publications. Jason Hall, Mikko Jimenez, and Jordan Rutter join host Nate Swick to talk about grackle behavior, museums, and our very favorite penguins.
Links to articles discussed in this episode:
The Rodrigues parakeet's last day: What one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums
Exploration and dispersal are key traits involved in rapid range expansion, urban bird study finds
Conservation sweet spots: How protecting nature helps both birds and humans in the US
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| 0:00.0 | Do you love birds, nature, and the great outdoors? |
| 0:03.4 | Join us for Wings Over Beaufort, a three-day birding adventure in beautiful Beaufort, South Carolina. |
| 0:08.7 | Explore coastal habitats, spot rare species, and learn from top birding experts. |
| 0:13.2 | It's September 23rd to the 26th. |
| 0:16.2 | Visit Bufordsc.org slash Wings Over Beaufort to learn more today. |
| 0:26.7 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:31.2 | I am Nate Swick. It is the last Thursday of the month, and that means this month in burning. |
| 0:36.0 | We'll get to that. We'll get to that shortly. But first, I do have a couple pieces of ABA news to share that might be of interest |
| 0:42.7 | to you out there. To start, we're coming up on our next ABA community weekend, this one in |
| 0:48.9 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the weekend of September 20th to the 21st. Our community weekends are sort of an ABA's traveling road show. |
| 0:58.0 | We partner with local bird clubs for field trips. |
| 1:00.5 | We'll have social workshops. |
| 1:02.4 | We'll have ABA friends Kelly Smith and Frank is a Geary there to host Frank, |
| 1:06.8 | Pittsburgh Burt or you know Frank for the podcast. |
| 1:09.8 | He's here from time to time. |
| 1:11.8 | ABA community weekends are completely free. |
| 1:14.2 | All that we ask is that you register so that we know how many folks will be there. |
| 1:18.1 | The link should be right at the top of aBA.org. |
| 1:21.3 | So hopefully easy to find. |
| 1:22.8 | It should be a great fall birding weekend. |
| 1:25.8 | Also, if you are a fan of our bird of the year, we are holding an |
| 1:31.0 | auction for several pieces of our original bird of the year cover art. This is the stuff that was |
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