09-49: Birding Book Club - Best Books of 2025
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The Birding Book Club is back again to do our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2025. There's no better time to give the gift of bird books to the birder in your life. And why not something for yourself while you're at it? Nate Swick is joined by 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman and Birding magazine media and book review editor Rebecca Minardi to talk about what we loved this very unique year of birds in books.
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| 0:00.0 | Visit Laredo, Texas for the annual Laredo Birding Festival happening February 4th through |
| 0:05.8 | the 7th. Don't miss the adventure. Go to visitlaredo.com for more information. |
| 0:15.7 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:21.4 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 0:23.5 | We are officially at the tail end of the year for birders. |
| 0:26.7 | That means we're heading into Christmas bird count season. |
| 0:29.4 | For nonprofits, we're heading into end-of-year appeal season. |
| 0:33.1 | Thanks to all of you who donated to the ABA over the last week, especially those who gave |
| 0:37.4 | on Giving |
| 0:38.2 | Tuesday. You helped make that day a success for us and helped set us up for a great 2026. |
| 0:45.2 | The end of the year also means holiday gift giving season. There's the big one, of course, |
| 0:50.2 | the one named after all the bird counts. But it seems like every tradition has an early |
| 0:55.0 | winter gift-giving component. And what birder in your life doesn't love an ABA membership? Sure, |
| 1:01.0 | what a thoughtful gift, but also bird books. That's right. It's time for the birding book |
| 1:07.9 | club to reconvene for our annual best bird books conversation this time, |
| 1:13.6 | 2025, Donna Shulman, Rebecca Menardi and I talk at length. |
| 1:18.6 | I mean, look at the runtime of this episode about our favorite bird and birding books of the year. |
| 1:23.8 | That conversation is coming to you after this week's rarebirds. |
| 1:38.5 | This is your rarebird focus for the beginning of December 2025. Remember those heady and hot summers of 2022 and 23 when it felt like Limpkins were pulling up at every wetland between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. |
| 1:47.4 | And then they just stopped. |
| 1:50.3 | Well, we're back. |
| 1:52.6 | Though I don't think anyone had a December Limpkin on their bingo car, but that's what we got in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, where the tail end of November brought the first snowstorm of the |
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