09-37: New Art in the New Nat Geo Guide with Andrew Guttenberg
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
For more than 40 year the National Geographic Field Guide has been an essential text in the library of US and Canadian birders. The venerable series is in its 8th edition now, published as East and West earlier this year and as as guide from coast to coast just recently. Ted Floyd, a regular on this podcast, is the author, but a field guide is only as good as its illustrations. Former Bird of the Year artist Andrew Guttenberg is the art coordinator for this series as it takes a turn into the 21st Century and he joins us to talk about it.
Also, have you seen the new Listers documentary?
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| 0:00.0 | National Geographic's beloved bird field guide just got even better with the revised 8th edition, |
| 0:06.9 | complete with new eBird-based range maps. |
| 0:09.6 | It features all the birds of Canada and the United States, now including Hawaii, 1,150 species in all. |
| 0:16.3 | The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds is available wherever books are sold. |
| 0:22.6 | Celebrate Community and Conservation at this year's Great Midwest Crane Fest as thousands of Sand Hill Cranes gather near the Wisconsin River before flying south for the winter. |
| 0:32.6 | Registration is now open for the festival. It's in Baraboo, Wisconsin on November 15th and 16th. It'll have speakers, |
| 0:39.7 | workshops, food, art, and tours of each organization's world-class attractions. For more |
| 0:44.5 | information, visit www.g.g.midw.midwest cranefest.org. This event is brought to you |
| 0:50.7 | by the International Crane Foundation and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 1:06.0 | I am Nate Swick. |
| 1:08.0 | I don't know if you've seen it. |
| 1:09.0 | There's been a lot of talk in the bird world, |
| 1:11.0 | at least the online part of it, about the new film Listers by brothers Owen and Quentin Riser. |
| 1:17.7 | The idea is that these two brothers, who don't have a ton of experience, birding, or in the |
| 1:22.1 | birding world, decided to tackle a lower 48 big year. |
| 1:33.3 | The argument being that the best way to learn about something is to do it at its most extreme level, |
| 1:37.5 | which, to be honest, strikes me as akin to a casual neighborhood walker, |
| 1:39.5 | immediately signing up to run an ultramarathon. |
| 1:44.4 | But to be honest, it's not the worst argument I've heard for doing a big year. |
| 1:52.6 | I am both a fairly practiced observer of non-burder attempts to get quote-unquote birding, |
| 1:59.6 | and also somewhat protective of the genuine geekiness that is a valued, at least to me, part of the hobby. |
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