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

I am your host, Nate Swick. We've been doing a ton of work on the ABA website over the last

few months. Big, big shout out to Greg Neese and David Hartley for that hard work. And I want to

take this time at the top of this program to direct you to the brand new ABA store. We have a ton

of new stuff there. Lots of bird of the year common loon gear based on the art from Sam Zimmerman.

We've got some new ABA logo wear.

I know it's not a huge deal, but we've been missing that sort of thing for some time.

And I personally have been Jonzing for some good ABA gear for nearly the entire time

that I have been professionally associated

with the organization, which is nearing 15 years now. The only ABA hat I have is a prototype

that I had to design and order myself. I would not recommend doing that. Copyright issues aside. Hopefully that means that this

sort of maverick behavior will no longer be necessary. We have hooded sweatshirts now.

It's a, it's a whole new world. Plus, ABA members get 10% off. Head to ABA.org slash

store to have a look. To the show this week ted floyd is back to talk

random birds and the number generator is pretty good to us this time around a nice mix of

aBA distributional weirdos and widespread birds that's good good content. Thanks, random number generator.

All that after this week's rare birds.

This is your rare bird focus for the middle of October 2025 rarity season is upon us,

and we get to celebrate a couple first records for regions

in the ABA area this week.

The first first, a violet green swallow in Caddo Parish, Louisiana represents a first record

for that state.

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