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Bird Watchers, Birders, Nature Lovers should hear the Bird Banter Podcast. Hear Birders talk about birdwatching, or birding for the more passionate. Hear their birding stories, about bird watching experiences, about birding research, birding travel, and birdwatching anecdotes. It's fun, conversational and tries to be a birding ambassador to improve the world one birder at a time.
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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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
Dorian Anderson is my guest on this episode of the podcast. Dorian was a guest on one of my earliest episodes #5 in Feb. 2019, and I have been waiting it seems forever to talk with him again once his book was written and published. After you hear from Dorian today I'm sure you'll want to read Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery.
On the episode we talk about Pop Tech, a pretty cool concept and event that I had not heard about before. Check it out.
Here is a link to the Tammy and David McQuade episode we discuss. Here is the Biking for the Birds blog link. Here is a short You Tube done on his biking year.
Thanks for listening. Good Birding.
On this episode my guest is Michael Hobbs, a King County, WA based birder who has been doing weekly bird surveys at Marymoor Park in Redmond, WA for almost 30 years. You can contact Michael at this link to the park. We talk about the experience of such regular intentional bird surveys of a single location, the benefits, both in friendships made and birding experiences of his efforts, and about his other birding interests.
County birding is also fun, and Michael is one of a handful of WA birders who have listed >150 species in all 39 of the WA counties. He travels internationally at times for birding, and is an overall interesting guest. Enjoy.
To see more information about the episode and topics, see the blog post on the Bird Banter website.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding.
I'm guessing you know about The Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, but do you know about the man who willed it to existance, the man known as "The Birdman of the Senate?" I didn't until Will McLean Greeley, the Great-great nephew of Senator McLean, and author of a biography on Senator McLean reached out to me and we talked for the podcast. It's a great story, and one I'm enjoying learning more about.
You can find the book on Amazon here or at the publisher's website here.
Read more about the book, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and more on my blog post.
Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the book.
Until next time, good birding!
ON this episode Frank and I talk about his PhD work on field guides and how they have influenced conservation. To hear a video with Frank on this topic watch this You Tube.
We also talk about the recent ABA social media network called ABA Community.
Check it out.
For more info about Frank and this episode visit the blog post on BirdBanter.com
Until next time, good birding and good day!
On this episode we talk about John's birding story, birding in Connecticut, and his chase to see American Flamingos that were blown north by Hurricane Idalia. We talk about why the Long Island Sound is not great for pelagic birding, but is excellent for other birds.
Read more at the BirdBanter.com blog.
Learn more about John on his eBird Profile.
eBird is a great tool for many purposes, but there are times when a birder wants to know how to best bird a hotspot, where to park at the hotspot, are there restrooms there, and generally about birding the hotspot. It is great to ask a local birder, but often that is not possible, and so what to do? Now the answer is easy. Go to BirdingHotspots.org where my guests Ken Ostermiller and Adam Jackson have created an open source, crowdsourced site for birders to help each other know how to find birds at any eBird hotspot.
You can help by using the "suggest edit" feature to help flesh out the information on any hotspot.
Please get feedback to me, or contact Ken to volunteer to help as an editor for your state.
Thanks for listening. Please leave a rating and reveiw. See more on the Bird Banter Blog.
Until next time, good birding and good day.
On this episode I talk with two of the leaders of The Feminist Bird Club, Molly Adams who is the originator of the NYC chapter, and Sydney Golden Anderson who has been active in the Chicago chapter and now lives in Colorado. I was excited to hear about the clubs work to increase diversity and be inviting to all people with an interest in birds. Their work toward this goal is inspiring to me and I hope to you.
You can find the the Feminist Bird Club NYC Chapter website here, and there find links to many of the other chapters. Follow the NYC, Chicago or Seattle clubs on Instagram. Buy the new book The Birding for a Better World: A guide to Finding Joy and Community in Nature anywhere books are sold, available Sept 5, 2023, but you can preorder now.
I mention BirdingHotspots.org in the episode, and I encourage listeners to participate in this crowd-sourced birding tool online.
Check out the blog post associated with this episode on the Bird Banter Website.
Thanks for listening. Until next time, good birding and good day!
On this episode I talk with Greg Harrington, a Seattle, WA birder I've met several times in the field, and who had become a proficient and prolific birder in the area over a very few years. He is always fun to meet, and was really fun to talk with on this episode. He is a high school history teacher, and spent some of the Covid time when teaching was online teaching from the road while travelling around the U.S. exploring and birding.
You can find Greg's email on his eBird profile here.
Here is a link to A Birders Guide to Washington on the WOS website. You can buy it here.
Here is Jerry Cooper's old but IMO still fabulous: BIRDFINDER: A Birder's Guide to Planning North American Trips
See the blog post associated with this episode on the Bird Banter Blog for more details. Thanks for listening. Please leave a rating and reveiw.
On this episode Scott and I talk about his discovery of birding as a passion later in life, and about how this led to his quest to see all of the Lower-48 raptors, initially in a year, but eventually in 17 months. Scott is also a prolific author, and we talk about his writing and his future birding plans.
His newest book: RaptorQuest: Chasing America's Raptors
See more about the places and people we talk about on the BirdBanter.com blog.
Thanks for listening. Good birding and good day!
On Episode #155 I talk with Arkansas birder Dan Scheiman about birding in Arkansas, his birding story and creating backyard habitat by Planting for Birds. You can see Dan's eBird profile here, and read more on The Bird Banter blog here.
I'd love to hear about birders you'd like to hear from as guests. Reach me on the contact page or in part of an episode review. Thanks for listening.
Good birding.
Pelagic birding is different in many ways from birding on land. It's fun, exhausting, and difficult, but can be really great too. Ken Brown, my long-time birding buddy, and I have dreamed of getting out of Hatteras N.C. with Brian Patteson for years, and finally made it happen this year. Despite difficult weather we had a great trip, and talk about that and more on this episode.
Patteson Seabirding
Westport Seabirds
The Science of Birds Podcast
Blog post on Birdbanter.com
Dynamic Soaring Video
On this episode I talk with Rebecca Heisman, author of the new book Flight Paths, and hear about the story of writing the book, more stories about the people behind the research on bird migration, and her personal and birding story.
In the introduction I talk about the migration watch scene at Dune Peninsula. Check out the eBird hotspot page here.
You can learn more about Rebecca at her website rebeccaheisman.com
As always find more related info on the Bird Banter Blog post about this article.
Until next time, I hope you enjoyed migration, and good birding!
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Outstanding podcast. Ed's really grown into an excellent host. His interest, enthusiasm and knowledge shine through. He gets amazing guests, some of whom are well known, and others that I have enjoyed hearing from and about for the first time.