09-40: What is Birding Like?
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever had to describe birding to a friend or family member who just doesn't get it? What analogies do you use? Is birding like a religion? A sport? An obsession? In this encore episode from 2018, Guest host Greg Neise brings Birding editor Ted Floyd and young birder liaison Jennie Duberstein to bear on the issue in a rollicking discussion in an attempt to figure it out.
Also, it looks like Nate is going to be at the ABA Community Weekend in Fort Meyers, Florida, next month!
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| 0:00.0 | National Geographic's beloved bird field guide just got even better with the revised 8th edition, |
| 0:06.0 | complete with new eBird based range maps. |
| 0:08.5 | It features all the birds of Canada and the United States, now including Hawaii, 1,150 species in all. |
| 0:15.5 | The National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds is available wherever books are sold. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello and welcome. Guide to the Birds is available wherever books are sold. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello and welcome to the American Burning Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Nate Swick. I've got some news about the ABA's upcoming community weekends, most notably the one to be held the weekend of October 25th and 26th in Fort Myers, Florida. It is looking |
| 0:40.7 | very much like I will be traveling to Fort Myers, Florida to bird with all of you then. |
| 0:48.0 | And of course, I have priorities. I've been checking out eBird to see what I can get there. |
| 0:53.3 | In my experience, birding southern Florida, I have missed short-tailed hawk every single time. |
| 1:00.6 | It is just about the one South Florida specialty that I don't have. |
| 1:04.6 | I see, according to Ebert, that there are still a few around in the second half of October. |
| 1:09.2 | So I've got that on my list. |
| 1:11.2 | I would also like to see purple swamp in, which is also possible, though not as widespread |
| 1:15.6 | in the area as the hawk. |
| 1:17.0 | Just as well, it's introduced. |
| 1:18.6 | If I had to pick one, it would be the short-tailed hawk. |
| 1:21.8 | Anyway, we are still working on details for that weekend. |
| 1:26.6 | They will come when we finish getting some confirmation |
| 1:28.9 | from our partners down there. I expect that in the next week or so. I can tell you that we will have |
| 1:36.2 | brand new vortex binoculars to loan out to newer birders or to birders who just want to try out |
| 1:41.2 | some new stuff. That's exciting too. You can check the ABA website |
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