09-44: This Month in Birding - October 2025
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The last Thursday of the month means it's time for This Month in Birding, our round table discussion with birding friends about news in birding and ornithology. This week we welcome Jennie Duberstein, Nick Lund, and Brodie Cass Talbott to discuss casual eBirding, hybrid Jays, and what bird to patronize on Halloween night.
Links to articles discussed in this episode:
The Unexpected Profundity of a Movie About Bird-Watching
The hunt for the last great auks: ancient DNA resolves a 180-year-old mystery
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| 0:34.4 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Burning Association. |
| 0:39.0 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:40.8 | Last week, I was in Florida for the ABA Community Weekend in Fort Myers. |
| 0:47.4 | Hello to all the friends that I met there. |
| 0:49.4 | Many of you are listeners to the podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | I appreciate the kind words you had to say about this show. |
| 0:55.9 | I will talk more about the Community Weekend experience next week. This week is the last |
| 1:03.1 | Thursday of the month, and that means that we have this month in birding. Those tend to go a little |
| 1:07.6 | bit long. So I'm going to send you to that as quickly as I can with the reminder that the ABA's next |
| 1:14.9 | community weekend will be in November in San Francisco, California. |
| 1:18.8 | These are fun, free events. |
| 1:21.5 | You get tons of information about them on the ABA website. |
| 1:24.8 | We look forward to seeing you there as well. And of course, |
| 1:28.3 | we've got a whole slate of community weekends all across the ABA area set up for 2026. |
| 1:36.4 | Can't wait to see some of you there. Anyway, on to the show, Jenny Doberstein, Nick Lund, |
| 1:42.8 | Brody Castelbert. They joined me to talk about hybrid jays, |
| 1:45.9 | great ock mysteries, and the best birds to patronize for trick-or-treating. All of that after this |
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