American Birding Podcast

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-12-19

  08-51: This Month in Birding - December 2024

Thanks for another great year here at the American Birding Podcast. To close out 2024 we host another This Month in Birding panel featuring Jennie Duberstein, Mikko Jimenez, and Brodie Cass Talbott who join Nate to talk about bird brains, CBC memories,...
2024-12-12

  08-50: It's Bird-Friendly Chocolate Season with Bryony Angell

Roughly a quarter of chocolate sales in the US and the UK occur around the holidays at the end of the year. And if you are listening to this podcast, you are statistically almost certain to be participating. What does that have to do with birds? Well, ...
2024-12-05

  08-49: Birding Book Club - Best of 2024

It's the Birding Book Club's biggest meeting of the year!. We're back again to do our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2024. There’s no better time to give the gift of bird books to the birder in your life. And why not something for yours...
2024-11-28

  08-48: City Pigeons and Urban Evolution with Elizabeth Carlen

The humble Rock Pigeon can provide some interesting insights into how natural selection is impacted by the urban environment. That is the work of Elizabeth Carlen, a former PhD candidate at Fordham University in New York City and the lead author of a r...
2024-11-21

  08-47: Random Birds XIII with Ted Floyd

Birding editor Ted Floyd is back for another episode of Random Birds. Ted and Nate talk turkey, and lots of other birds, with the help of a random number generator and a big list of birds.  Also, Slender-billed Curlew has been declared extinct. What do...
2024-11-14

  08-46: In Defense of Birds with Rich Fischer

On Veteran’s Day, here in the United States, we commemorate military veterans of the US Armed Forces, and this Veteran’s Day we at the American Birding Podcast commemorate the work done by the Department of Defense to protect and conserve out national ...
2024-11-07

  08-45: Hybrid Chickadee Challenges with Amber Rice and Scott Taylor

The friendly and familiar chickadees are endearing yard birds in nearly all parts of the ABA Area, but there is more than meets the eye for these feeder friends, especially in places where two species interact. Chickadees and chickadee hybrids are allo...
2024-10-31

  08-44: This Month in Birding - October 2024

It's spooky season for birders and for this month's TMIB panel we've assembled a most terrifying group of birders to discuss this month's birding and ornithology news. Jason Hall, Nick Lund, and Purbita Saha join host Nate Swick to talk Canad Geese, va...
2024-10-24

  08-43: Gulls are for Everyone with Amar Ayyash

There’s probably no group of birds on the planet that an ilicit such a wide range of reactions than gulls, and no other group of birds that some birders won't even try to identify. Amar Ayyash, who has, through his writing and photography, established ...
2024-10-17

  08-42: Return to the Sky with Tina Morris

The reintroduction of the Bald Eagle in North America is justifiably counted among the world’s great conservation success stories. Ravaged by DDT, the Bald Eagle was on the brink of extirpation in the United States by the 60s. As a young college studen...