10-13: Random Birds, April 2026, with Ted Floyd
The American Birding Podcast
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
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Host Nate Swick leans once again on Birding magazine editor Ted Floyd for another Random Birds discussion. The Random Number Generator has a certain late winter/early spring bias with warblers and gulls and warblers and gulls on the agenda.
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| 0:35.1 | Hello and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. |
| 0:39.3 | I am your host, Nate Swick. I am on vacation with my family this week, so because of that, |
| 0:44.3 | I recorded this segment for this week's episode. Last week, it's early, it's still late March. |
| 0:52.9 | It's not April. There has been no April fools in my reality yet. So maybe this message is coming too late. But I'm going to make it anyway. |
| 1:01.5 | Birding is a trust-based community. We rely on our fellow birders to provide accurate information about the birds that they see. |
| 1:13.1 | 364 days of the year, this is not an issue. |
| 1:15.8 | One day of the year, it seems like some birders can't help to do the very obvious thing |
| 1:22.1 | and report a fake bird, sometimes a really ridiculous one. |
| 1:27.0 | Let me be clear here. Stop it. Just, just stop it. |
| 1:32.7 | In these days of AI, I think we've gotten a little bit better at decoding some of this stuff. |
| 1:36.6 | There's so much AI bird slap on social media these days. It's really awful. |
| 1:41.2 | Thankfully, none of it looks like actual birds yet, but it's out there. |
| 1:44.7 | The scourge of Facebook bird group moderators, no doubt. But if there's no photo, |
| 1:49.5 | or if it's from a trusted source, man, this stuff can go places. Many years ago, |
| 1:55.0 | in the Stone Age of social media, so you know, like, I don't know, 2012 or something, |
| 2:00.1 | there was a story that went bird viral |
| 2:02.2 | on April Fool's about the rediscovery of Carolina Parakeet somewhere in South America. It had a |
| 2:08.5 | very real photo attached to it, but it was a photo of a young son parakeet, which as an adult |
| 2:14.9 | is way more orange, but the young birds are green in places |
| 2:17.8 | where Carolina parakeet is green. |
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