This is Bird Note.

Justine Bow fell in love with birds when she was a kid, on a hike in New Hampshire with her dad.

And he kept saying to me, oh, I hope we see a Black Burnian warbler.

I hope we see a Black Burnian warbler. We did the whole hike, I don't know how long it was,

felt like an eternity to me, didn't see it, and then we were about to exit the trail and then he heard the call.

And we saw it above us and it's a really striking bird.

It's fiery orange and black and white and it was super captivating and a really beautiful surprise.

Today Justine manages the Bird Friendly Coffee Program at the Smithsonian Institute's migratory bird center,

working with coffee farmers to preserve habitat for birds that migrate to Central and

South America. And when visiting some of those farms in Colombia.

I got to see the same Blackburnian warblers that I see at home

and it's just this really interesting and kind of beautiful mirror image of what

we're doing here in the States. You know we're looking at the same birds. I got to sip coffee,

sitting under a bird-friendly canopy thinking about that

interconnectivity between the species that connect us and the same coffee

that we're drinking. It's a pretty moving thing.

You can learn more about bird-friendly coffee on our website,

birdnote.org.

I'm Mark Bramhill. You're