Episodes
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As I mention in the introduction, some of my best times recording episodes for the podcast is when I just talk birding with another birder, like myself who just loves to talk birding with a fellow birder. No other agenda, just having fun. Keith Corliss is my guest on this episode, a North Carolina birder who perfectly exemplifies a fellow birder enjoying taking an hour to chat about birding and meeting a new friend. Enjoy
See Keith's eBird profile here
Keith's email is on his ebird profile.
I mention several episodes I really enjoyed with other birders who have great local and regional birding experiences to share. You'll find links to those and more on my
I also mention the San Diego Birding Festival, I believe I misnamed it as the Sea and Sage Festival on the recording but here is the link.
You can find information about the Searcher 5-day pelagic with Todd McGrath and others here.
Westport Seabirds in Washington can be found here.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode Alex and I talk about how he has enjoyed birding in Eastern Washington as a Washington State University student, after birding in the Seattle area for most of his early birding days. We also talk about his mammal WA big year in 2022, his birding story, and more.
Enjoy.
Reach Alex by text, his phone number is on his eBird profile, or by email sowersalexander1- at- gmail- dot - com
On the Birdbanter.com blog post about this episode you can find links to many of the ebird hotspots discussed and more.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode we talk about slow birding, as Joan Strassmann writes about in her book. Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying Birds in Your Own Backyard. Joan also talks about her work at Washington University in St. Louis, and how her teaching there has led to using birding in the area as a means of teaching students observation skills. In her book she goes into beautiful detail about places and birds she sees and visits regularly.
You can find her book anywhere books are sold. Here is a link on Buteo Books.
To see her bio at Washington University in St. Louis click here.
To read the blog post associated with this episode or to send a comment or suggestion to me use these links.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode Melissa and I talk about her new book, Dare to Bird: Exploring the Joy and Healing Power of Birds as well as her recent travels. Melissa was a guest on Episode #105 in July 2021 where you can hear more about her background and birding story.
Find her new book whereever books are sold. Here you can find it on Buteo Books.
You can read more about Melissa's experiences and the book in an article in Audubon Magazine.
As always check out the related blog post on BirdBanter.com
Until next time, good birding and good day!
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I don't know many birders who may be better known by a reputational moniker than by their real name, but The Urban Birder, David Lindo, may be my first. I had certainly heard of someone called The Urban Birder, but only looked up who this was after Diane Yorgensen-Quinn put out notice of a trip David is planning to take Diand, Faye and likely other members of our ABC Birding Club on to see the Short-eared Owls of Kikinda, Serbia this winter.
On the episode we talk about the planned trip, how he came to be known as the Urban Birder, about his various services and roles in his company, and about his approach to urban birding in general. I think you'll find it interesting.
To see more, check out the related Bird Banter blog post.
Thanks for listening, and until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode I talk with Ezekiel Dobson, the young birder who just became the youngest Lower-48 ABA birder to see 700 species in a year on his 2024 big year. Ezekiel talks about his big year, his birding story, the birders and birds he has seen this year, and on what's yet to come, both in the big year and the years ahead for him.
Read more on the blog post on Bird Banter.
Support Ezekiel on his Go Fund Me page.
Follow Ezekiel on Instagram
Until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode Abby and I talk about the conservation efforts she is working on with Audubon Delta and the conservation of Black Skimmers and Least Terns, as well as her doctoral studies with mixed flocks in the American tropics, her birding story and stories.
You can contact Abby through Audubon Delta. Read more about topics on this episode on the blog post on BirdBanter.com
Until next time, good birding and good day!
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Matthew Bell, a Connecticut birder and travel specialist with the Connecticut Audubon Society is my guest on this episode. Matt got passionate about birding while at Ohio State University after a trip to Costa Rica, and on getting back to Ohio helped revive the Ornighology Club there. We talk about his work at Connecticut Audubon, his birding experiences, and birding in Connecticut.
If you have suggestions for guests you'd like to hear from, contact me here and I'll be grateful.
As always the blog post on BirdBanter.com has more links and details on topics related to this episode. Thanks for listening. Good birding and good day!
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On this episode Diane Yorgason-Quinn (see Episode #20) and Larry Schwitters talk about their work with Vaux's Swifts and the Vaux Happening Project. Larry got his start in swift research hiking to and looking for Black Swifts at over 100 waterfalls (thing very remote) in Washington State (and Oregon and CA). From there he helped preserve the Wagner Schoolhouse in Monroe, WA. From there he continued to start the Vaux Happening Project which documents roosting Vaux's Swifts at many old chimney roosts throughout the western U.S. and Mexico.
Enjoy. To learn more check out the associated blog post on BirdBanter.com
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On this episode I talk with Jacob Miller, a young Washington birding friend who has just completed his freshman year at Washington State University. Jacob shares his experiences as a first year university student, talks about birding in a new county and part of the state, big days and developing new birding friends, as well as starting a birding club at WSU. Enjoy.
We talk about Liam Hutcheson's WA big year, hear about it on episode #168.
To hear more about nocturnal bird calls in Washington, check out Episode #118 with Jim Danzenbaker.
Read more on the Bird Banter Podcast Blog post.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode I talk with the authors of the new identification field guide to Empidonax flycatchers and Pewees as well as the book on Myarchus flycatchers and Kingbirds, Cin-Ty Lee and Andrew Birch. We talk about their longtime birding friendship, their birding stories, and the new books.
Check out the books at your favorite book resource. Field Guide to North American Flycatchers: Empidonax and Pewees and Kingbirds and Myiarchus.
Read more and see a book review on the BirdBanter.com blog.
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Mollee Brown is my guest on this episode and we talk about her Nighthawk Agency, which provides business solutions for the birding industry. We also talk about her work as a bird guide, her birding story, and the trip she is leading for Hillstar Nature to the the Chocó region of Colombia that I'll be taking next winter.
Check out Nighthawk Agency here. The trip to Chocó here, and The Birding Coop here.
The learn more about the topics discussed see the blog post on BirdBanter.com.
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On this episode I talk with Josh Covill, a Montana birder who leads birding tours in Montana as well as in Central and South America. Josh was the guide on my recent trip to the Santa Marta area of Colombia, and is a fabulous birder and really nice guy. Enjoy.
Find Josh for a Montana Tour at Glacier Birding.
Joshua's page at Hillstar Nature Tours.
See the blog post on BirdBanter.com for lots more related info and links.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode I talk with a relative newcomer to birding, Courtney Ellis. Courtney began birding during the pandemic, and has become a birding enthusiast and ambassador. Check out her podcast The Thing with Feathers, as well as her soon to be released book Looking Up: A Birders Guide to Hope Through Grief.
We talked about my episode #148 with Holly Merker where you can hear about Ornitherapy and the Mindful Birding Network.
To read more about the things we talked about check out the blog post on BirdBanter.com.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
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On this episode I talk with Holly Garrod, an accomplished birder, bird bander and conservationist about her work on bird banding networks with Birds Caribbean, and about the MOTUS network progress in the Caribbean. Her energy is fabulous, and her knowledge and expertise wonderful. I think you'll enjoy hearing her story.
Check out Birds Caribbean here.
See the Caribbean Birding Trail information here.
Learn about the MOTUS network and the Caribbean MOTUS systems at these links.
Here is info on the 2023 Caribbean Global Big Day efforts.
Read more about Holly and the topics we discussed on the Bird Banter Blog Post.
Thank for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
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Well, after a long break for a fabulous winter trip, the podcast is back with Ed talking about his trip to Florida, Colombia and Costa Rica.
The Colombia trip was run by Hillstar Nature Tours and led by Joshus Covill.
The Proaves Organization is worth checking out, and here is their article about the possible new species of antpita.
To see photos, more detailed narrative, and other cool stuff about the trip check out the Bird Banter blog post about the trip.
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On this episode I talk with Liam Hutcheson, sho just finished his record breaking Washington State big year. We talk about his big year, highlights, misses and people. Also about his birding story. While talking with Liam I marveled at how interconnected our birding community is, and how helpful birders are to each other. Pervious guests on the show who helped in one way or another with Liam's birding and his big year include:
Bill Tweit episode #8
Shep Thorpe episode #9
Ryan Rodriguez episode #47
Ken Brown #2, Bruce LaBar #3 and I were with Liam on a trip in early 2023 with Jacob Miller to the southeast corner of WA to see winter specialties.
For more details check out the BirdBanter.com blog post about this episode.
Until next time, good birding!
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Birding is not the first thing many think about when considering a trip to Italy, but as birders, it is always a consideration. On this episode I talk with Marco Valtriani, a guide with the Birding In Italy group of bird guides. As you can inagine a lot of their business is taking visitors from the U.S. and other far away countries out for a birding break from their other tourist activities in Italy.
We talk about where and when to find birds in Italy, how to best use the services of his birding tour group, the hopeful fact that the killing of birds for food has markedly diminished, the natural park system of the country, and lots more.
I also talk a bit about Christmas Bird Counts, how you can find one, and my experiences with CBCs.
Thanks for listening. As always, check out the blog associated with this episode on the Bird Banter website.
Good birding.
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On this episode I talk with Steve Hampton about his experience on the AOU Ad Hoc Committee on English names for birds, about climate change and the research on how it is affecting birds, about gulls in the Port Townsend area, his trip to Antarctica and more.
You can find more about Steve and contact him on his professional website Stephen-Carr-Hampton.com
His blogs are The Cottonwood Post about birding and Memories of the People about issues related to indigenous peoples of the U.S.
Here is a link to the official recommendations of the AOU ad hoc committee on English Bird names.
We talked about so many things you may want to see more links and discussion on the Bird Banter Blog post.
Thanks for listening. Until next time good birding and good day.
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My guest on this episode is Rachel Hudson, a Lewis County, Washington birder who is also a photographer, artist and recent college graduate. We talk about her interest in birding as a very young child, reading and nurturing her interest in birds from age 3, through her childhood birding in Texas and to her move to Washington for college. She has a genuine love for birds and birding that comes through clearly, and was really fun to talk with and get to know better.
She talks about the Vaux Happening project, as well as her work with her local Audubon Chapter. You can reach out to Rachel by email lighteningdash09 - at - yahoo - dot- com
Read more about the Vaux Happening project and other related topics at the Bird Banter blog post associated with this episode.
Until next time, good birding!
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