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A new book I'm reading emphasizes the word watching in the expression bird watching, as

in don't be in such a hurry to merely note that you've seen a bird, but instead really have a close look at what it's doing and

Discover the facts of its life

The book is called slow-burdening and its author is here today to talk about how to become a slow-burder and also about some of the species

She profiles in the book so more in a moment, but first this message

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Today's guest is Joan Strossman, a specialist in animal behavior who's a professor of biology

at Washington University in St. Louis.

She's also now the author of Slow Buring, The Art and Science of Enjoying

the Birds in Your Own Backyard. Welcome, John. Thanks for making time to talk about this.

Thank you. I'm delighted to do so. Good. And well, she mentioned before we get started that we'll

have a book giveaway with the transcript of the show over on away to Garden.com. And say

congratulations because I started reading the book and all

I could think was finally an official title for the way I watch birds. So thank you.

Oh, it's my pleasure. Yeah. So tell us what slow birding is. Give us that sort of elevator pitch

on what slow birding. I guess I've been a-burder all my life. I've taught some very focused bird classes

where I've had students watch birds and kind of the minute I heard about the slow food movement.

I thought, oh, we should have slow-burding and it should be just the same where we watch things, we appreciate them, and we don't just run around

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