10-09: World Without Birds with Nick Lund
The American Birding Podcast
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4.7 • 677 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The specter of a World Without Birds is certainly a sobering one, but one that could, though, inspire new birders and environmentalists to support the efforts needed to make sure that world is never a reality. In Nick Lund's latest book aimed at younger readers, he tells the stories of birds made extinct by human hands and also those of birds that have been rescued from that fate. Nick and Nate also tell stories of birds seen in unlikely places, and the birding goals of a marathoner in a wide-ranging discussion.
Also, a new study about birds and brain health has made it to The Today Show!
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| 0:00.0 | The Florida Birding and Nature Festival has moved to the spring in Tampa Bay, April 9th through the 12th, which is the height of migration through coastal Florida. |
| 0:10.8 | You can see warblers and other songbirds sporting their fanciest plumages and nesting herons and pelicans. |
| 0:16.9 | The Florida Birding and Nature Festival features field trips to the best habitats across the six county area, |
| 0:22.3 | led by expert birders and land managers to protect the natural resources, |
| 0:26.4 | and who will share the measures taken to properly and scientifically protect their preserves. |
| 0:31.2 | There's a Nature Expo on Friday and Saturday with opportunities to purchase birding equipment, art, and wildlife products, |
| 0:36.9 | and keynote talks featuring |
| 0:38.2 | women conservationists in Florida by Rollins College's Dr. Leslie Kempool and Snail Kites and |
| 0:44.3 | their snail prey by Eckerd College's Dr. Hillary Flower. Get more information at Florida |
| 0:49.9 | Birding and Nature Festival.org. |
| 0:57.9 | Hello. Birding and Nature Festival.org. Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 1:02.7 | I am your host, Nate Swick. |
| 1:05.1 | As you can probably tell, I'm a little under the weather today. |
| 1:08.6 | I've been dealing with this sinus issue for a few days now, |
| 1:11.6 | but it does give me this super authentic radio host voice, |
| 1:14.6 | which I intend to use to my advantage as much as I can. |
| 1:17.6 | Here's another uninterrupted power hour of warbler flight calls from K-A-B-A-the-Hawk. |
| 1:23.6 | Look if you can edit out all the coughing. Now, I have other things planned. There was a study that came out a few days ago that has actually gotten quite a bit of press. It was published in the journal Neuroscience by a group of Canadian researchers from Toronto and Calgary. I know that it got into the consciousness of non-birders because I received |
| 1:45.8 | links from a lot of non-birder friends. So it kind of broke containment, as it were, probably |
| 1:51.4 | because it was published outside our regular circle of bird and nature journals. |
| 1:55.8 | Anyway, it found further evidence that birding is good for your brain. It improves attentiveness |
| 2:00.8 | and perception. |
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