10-12: This Month in Birding - March 2026
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
They say March comes in like a lion and out like an American Birding Podcast This Month in Birding episode, and this month panel is an exceptional one to end a month with. Host Nate Swick is joined by Stephanie Beilke, Andres Jimenez, and Ryan Mandelbaum for a fun and birdy conversation covering Airtags on birds, the most bouba and kiki species, and Tom Johnson's last piece of amazing bird science.
Links to topics covered in this episode:
Using Apple AirTags to Document Dispersal and Exploratory Movements of Harris's Hawks
Seeing in the dark: Using thermal imaging to directly observe nocturnal migration
The bouba-kiki effect: Baby chicks match sounds to shapes just like humans
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| 0:00.0 | There's a different way to bird the world. With all four birding, you get immersive, well-rounded |
| 0:05.3 | experiences you won't forget. Sailing the Norwegian Arctic with just 12 fellow birders between cliffs |
| 0:10.6 | full of puffins and ice floes with polar bears, carefully scanning the Sri Lankan forest for blue magpie, |
| 0:15.6 | always aware a leopard could appear at any moment too. Roaming the rainforests and red deserts of |
| 0:20.0 | Australia looking for |
| 0:20.9 | cassoiris and fairy wrens while listening to Aboriginal Dreamtime stories are camping in Kenya, |
| 0:25.8 | waking up surrounded by spurfowls and zebras. Travel with All for Birding because the joy |
| 0:30.0 | of birding travel goes beyond the checklist. Visit all for birding. That's A-L-L-L-4Burting.com |
| 0:36.5 | for info and bookings. |
| 0:42.6 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:47.2 | I am your host, Nate Swick. It is the end of March, the last Thursday of the month, |
| 0:52.3 | and that means it's time for this month in birding, our monthly panel discussion. I'm excited to share this one with you. It was a lot of |
| 0:57.9 | fun to record. So let's get to it this week on the podcast. Stephanie Bilke, Andres Jimenez, |
| 1:04.8 | and Ryan Mendelbaum, join me to talk about air tags on birds, Tom Johnson's last piece of |
| 1:10.0 | amazing bird science, and our favorite |
| 1:11.8 | green birds for St. Patty's Day. |
| 1:14.0 | Ein glasse go bra after this week's rare birds. |
| 1:22.4 | This is your rare bird focus for the third week of March, 2026. |
| 1:26.9 | When Hawaii was added to the ABA area |
| 1:30.1 | a whole decade ago, can you believe it? One of the more intriguing birding possibilities of the |
| 1:35.0 | mid-Pacific archipelago was the possibility of some truly bizarre seabirds finding their way to the |
| 1:41.6 | ABA checklist. Well, that happened this past week when a group of |
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