09-48: This Month in Birding - November 2025
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Happy Thanksgiving! At the ABA, we're thankful for birders - their passion, their deep knowledge base, and the willingness of some to come on the American Birding Podcast to discuss recent bird science and news. This month we welcome Stephanie Beilke, Tim Healy, and Ryan Mandelbaum to talk corvid mimicry, gator loving grebes, and the best birds to assign to all those other holidays.
Links to articles discussed in this episode:
Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys
Coordinated movements of multiple pied-billed grebes in association with an American alligator
Wintering closer to breeding grounds comes at a cost in an Arctic-specialized songbird,
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Erlem College. If you, or a young birder in your life is thinking |
| 0:05.7 | about college, put Erlem on your list, located on a major migration flyway in the Midwest and |
| 0:11.2 | surrounded by nature preserves. You can explore your passion with brilliant faculty through research, |
| 0:16.3 | fieldwork, and travel around the globe. At Erlem, Science, Discovery, and Joy, take flight. |
| 0:21.9 | Learn more at Earlem.edu slash birding. |
| 0:24.8 | That's e-A-R-L-H-A-M-D-U-S-Birding. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I am Nate Swick. Happy Thanksgiving to those of you in the U.S. listening to this episode when it is released. Happy belated Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends who celebrated it last month. And happy regular Thursday to those of you outside the ABA area listening to this |
| 0:56.7 | podcast. It is the end of the month. We'll get to the this month and burning panel shortly. |
| 1:02.7 | But it is the time of year when all of your friendly nonprofit organizations make a plea for |
| 1:07.8 | donations for various end of the year appeals. The ABA is no different here. |
| 1:13.4 | We keep the lights on and the bird content flowing with a mix of membership and donations. |
| 1:18.4 | And this Tuesday is what is generally referred to as giving Tuesday. It is a great time to give |
| 1:24.2 | to your favorite nonprofits. And your support for the ABA and our programs is greatly appreciated. |
| 1:30.9 | You can make donations at ABA.org slash giving Tuesday. |
| 1:34.5 | Thanks in advance for your support. |
| 1:36.7 | On to the business end of the show. |
| 1:39.3 | It's this month at Burning. |
| 1:40.5 | Stephanie Bilke, Tim Healy, and Ryan Mandelbaum join me to talk about |
| 1:44.3 | Corvid mimicry, citizen science, and Merlin, Merlin of all programs falling short against |
| 1:50.0 | actual human birders, score one for human ears. All that after this week's rare |
| 1:55.5 | birds. This is your rare bird focus for the third week of November 2025. |
| 2:06.1 | November is typically the best month of the year for ABA area vagrants. |
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