Best naswick Podcasts (2025)

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09-52: This Month in Birding - December 2025 1:01:49

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Jody Allair, Martha Harbison, and Rebecca Heisman join host Nate Swick for the last American Birding Podcast episode of the year, with a wide-ranging discussion of some of the latest bird and birding news. The panel talks warbler hybrids, vacant lots, and how to best yell at gulls among other things! Thanks for a great year! Also, don't forget to j…

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09-51: Random Birds, December 2025, with Ted Floyd 1:10:29

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We get one more go-round with the list and the random number generator for 2025 as Ted Floyd joins host Nate Swick to talk about, well, whatever birds we randomly turn up. This Random Birds covers an impressivley random suite of birds with kites, warblers, waders, and flycatchers all on the agenda. Also, ABA membership makes a great holiday gift! S…

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09-50: The Five Great Forests with Anna Lello-Smith 34:34

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Central America is home to five great tropical forests, whose presence and protection are critical to the conservation of just about every one of our neotropical migrant birds. It is the subject of a recent study from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Wildlife Conservation Society published last month in the journal Biological Conservation. An…

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09-49: Birding Book Club - Best Books of 2025 1:16:09

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The Birding Book Club is back again to do our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2025. There's no better time to give the gift of bird books to the birder in your life. And why not something for yourself while you're at it? Nate Swick is joined by 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman and Birding magazine media and book review edito…

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09-48: This Month in Birding - November 2025 1:01:46

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Happy Thanksgiving! At the ABA, we're thankful for birders - their passion, their deep knowledge base, and the willingness of some to come on the American Birding Podcast to discuss recent bird science and news. This month we welcome Stephanie Beilke, Tim Healy, and Ryan Mandelbaum to talk corvid mimicry, gator loving grebes, and the best birds to …

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09-47: Birds and Board Games with Elizabeth Hargrave 29:52

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What do birding and board games have in common? More than you'd expect! Birder and game designer Elizabeth Hargrave has made it a mission to bring these two things together and her bird-themed game Wingspan does just that. Wingspan has been covered by the New York Times, Smithsonian, and Science magazine among other places and has managed to elicit…

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09-46: The Feather Detective with Chris Sweeney 36:28

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Smithsonian researcher Roxie Laybourne may be the most influential ornithologist you've never heard of. Over the more than half a century she was a pioneering figure in the fields of forensics and aviation, all through her work with birds, and, more specifically, their feathers. Her incredible life is documented by journalist Chris Sweeney in the b…

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09-45: Dating Like a Bird with Bryony Angell & Wenfei Tong 39:46

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Can the various mating rituals, displays, and behaviors of birds apply to the lives of humans in the 21st Century, with our own uniue rituals, displays and behaviors? It's a question that birder and writer Bryony Angell asks as she approached her own renewed dating life in an article The Migratory Suiter, published in the most recent issue of BWD. …

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09-44: This Month in Birding - October 2025 1:03:55

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The last Thursday of the month means it's time for This Month in Birding, our round table discussion with birding friends about news in birding and ornithology. This week we welcome Jennie Duberstein, Nick Lund, and Brodie Cass Talbott to discuss casual eBirding, hybrid Jays, and what bird to patronize on Halloween night. Links to articles discusse…

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09-43: Inside Merlin with Miyoko Chu & Alli Smith 36:14

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It's hard to overstate in influence of Cornell's Merlin on the growth of birding over the last few years. What began as a simple tool for helping people to identify bird photos has become so much more, reaching millions of nature enthusiasts and even some celebrities. Miyoko Chu. Senior Director of Science Communitcations at the Lab, and Alli Smith…

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09-42: Random Birds, October 2025, with Ted Floyd 1:01:17

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Birding magazine editor and random birder Ted Floyd is back for another trip around the bird list. He and host Nate Swick take their list of birds and their random number generator and end up talking longspurs, vireos, and drama plovers in this edition of Random Birds. Also, check out the ABA Store for all sorts of fun Bird of the Year and logo wea…

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09-42: Take It or Leave It: Trumpeter Swans, Probability, and the Internet of Birding 1:13:00

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It's not hard to get birders talking about some of the big questions in our hobby. And this time we go back in the archives of Birding magazine to collect some historic hot takes for another edition of Take It or Leave It, the discussion panel for the most opinionated birders. This time we welcome Tim Healy and Martha Harbison to talk about Trumpet…

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09-40: What is Birding Like? 33:35

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Have you ever had to describe birding to a friend or family member who just doesn't get it? What analogies do you use? Is birding like a religion? A sport? An obsession? In this encore episode from 2018, Guest host Greg Neise brings Birding editor Ted Floyd and young birder liaison Jennie Duberstein to bear on the issue in a rollicking discussion i…

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09-39: This Month in Birding - September 2025 1:12:25

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The last Thursday of September means that it's time for another This Month in Birding, featuring friends from around the birding world gathering to talk about interesting bird news and science from the last month or so. This time around we welcome Frank Izaguirre, Andres Jimenez, and Sarah Swanson to talk about Barred Owls, baby cowbirds, and our f…

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09-38: A Dirtbag Big Year with Owen Reiser 42:21

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A Big Year is maybe the ultimate expression of birding obsession, with all the drama inherent to the effort. Brothers Quentin and Owen Reiser's attempt at a Big Year maybe most of all. It's the subject of their documentary, Listers, an attempt to throw themselves into the birding world through perhaps the most extreme expression of the hobby. It's …

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09-37: New Art in the New Nat Geo Guide with Andrew Guttenberg 40:15

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For more than 40 year the National Geographic Field Guide has been an essential text in the library of US and Canadian birders. The venerable series is in its 8th edition now, published as East and West earlier this year and as as guide from coast to coast just recently. Ted Floyd, a regular on this podcast, is the author, but a field guide is only…

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09-36: Where Have the Gray-headed Chickadees Gone with Brad Meiklejohn 41:59

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Gray-headed Chickadee is certainly one of the most enigmatic species of breeding birds in the ABA Area. Though it is found broadly across northern Eurasian it was, until very recently, also known from an isolated breeding population in northern Alaska and far northwestern Canada. Those bird, long a bucket list objective for ABA Area birders, might …

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09-35: This Month in Birding - August 2025 1:13:08

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It's This Month in Birding for August 2025 and, as we do at the end of every month, we've got a great panel of birders to discuss the month's birding news and scientific publications. Jason Hall, Mikko Jimenez, and Jordan Rutter join host Nate Swick to talk about grackle behavior, museums, and our very favorite penguins. Links to articles discussed…

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09-34: Random Birds, August 2025, with Ted Floyd 1:03:43

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Every once in a while, Birding editor Ted Floyd drops in for for another episode of Random Birds. The Birding Gods smile on Ted and Nate's random number generator for an eclectic bunch of birds from warblers to gulls, and one incredibly apropos selection. The AOS Classification Committee decisions are in, and Michael Retter has all the changes to y…

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09-33: Why Birders Go Where They Go with Natalia Ocamp-Peñuela & Scott Winton 36:59

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Bird tourism is booming, and in many parts of the world we've seen countries invest in conservation and tourism infrastructure to take advantage of it. Certainly birders are drawn by unique species, but perhaps our choices for bird-watching destinations have as much to do with other factors as they do with the presence of really great birds. It's t…

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09-32: The Backyard Bird Chronicles with Amy Tan 40:15

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Writer Amy Tan is perhaps best known for her many novels including The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter, exploring themes of identity, family, and the immigrant experience. Her newest book, however, explores something rather different. The Backyard Bird Chronicles is a collection of nature writing and sketching focuses on the many avian …

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09-31: This Month in Birding - July 2025 49:41

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The end of the month means This Month in Birding, and for July 2025 we've got a great panel of fun birders to discuss the month's birding news and scientific publications. Birders know Rebecca Heisman, Nick Lund, and Dexter Patterson for their great work in the birding world, and they join host Nate Swick to talk about hummingbird bills, drinking b…

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09-30: Loon News you can use with Natasha Bartolotta 32:17

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The ABA's 2025 Bird of the Year Common Loon is beloved across the United States and Canada, and though we at the ABA will only celebrate it for a short time, there are other organizations that have made protection and awareness of Common Loons their reason for being. The National Loon Center in Crosslake, Minnesota, is one such organization. They a…

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09-29: Bird Talk with Becca Rowland 34:10

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The search for the perfect mnemonic is the bane of any field guide author, from Roger Tory Peterson to your podcast host. It's the part of writing about birds and birding that requires the most creativity, ans Nova Scotia author and artist Becca Rowland, The Girl in White Glasses, has come up with an entire book devoted to the weird and wonderful s…

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09-28: The State of Maui's Birds with Hannah Mounce 38:30

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The state of Hawaii's birds is a topic that is frequently front of mind to those of us who care about bird conservation, and on every island there are bird researchers and conservationists on the ground putting any number of conservation efforts into practice. Dr Hannah Mounce is the program manager of the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project, and she…

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09-52: This Month in Birding - December 2025 1:01:49

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09-51: Random Birds, December 2025, with Ted Floyd 1:10:29

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09-50: The Five Great Forests with Anna Lello-Smith 34:34

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09-49: Birding Book Club - Best Books of 2025 1:16:09

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09-48: This Month in Birding - November 2025 1:01:46

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09-47: Birds and Board Games with Elizabeth Hargrave 29:52

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09-46: The Feather Detective with Chris Sweeney 36:28

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09-45: Dating Like a Bird with Bryony Angell & Wenfei Tong 39:46

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09-44: This Month in Birding - October 2025 1:03:55

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09-43: Inside Merlin with Miyoko Chu & Alli Smith 36:14

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09-42: Random Birds, October 2025, with Ted Floyd 1:01:17

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09-42: Take It or Leave It: Trumpeter Swans, Probability, and the Internet of Birding 1:13:00

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09-40: What is Birding Like? 33:35

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09-39: This Month in Birding - September 2025 1:12:25

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09-38: A Dirtbag Big Year with Owen Reiser 42:21

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09-37: New Art in the New Nat Geo Guide with Andrew Guttenberg 40:15

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09-36: Where Have the Gray-headed Chickadees Gone with Brad Meiklejohn 41:59

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09-35: This Month in Birding - August 2025 1:13:08

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09-34: Random Birds, August 2025, with Ted Floyd 1:03:43

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09-33: Why Birders Go Where They Go with Natalia Ocamp-Peñuela & Scott Winton 36:59

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09-32: The Backyard Bird Chronicles with Amy Tan 40:15

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09-31: This Month in Birding - July 2025 49:41

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09-30: Loon News you can use with Natasha Bartolotta 32:17

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09-29: Bird Talk with Becca Rowland 34:10

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09-28: The State of Maui's Birds with Hannah Mounce 38:30