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The American Birding Podcast brings together staff and friends of the American Birding Association as we talk about birds, birding, travel and conservation in North America and beyond. Join...
The concept of the "spark bird", the transformative moment with a particular species that turns you from a normal person into a real-deal bi...
It's the end of April and that means it's time again for another This Month in Birding panel with a great group of birding friends joining h...
Pishing, mob tapes, and playback are all tools that birders frequently use to supplement their birding experience, be it to show other birde...
Scott Weidensaul is the author of nearly 30 books about birds, birding, and natural history. His latest is The Return of the Oystercatcher:...
The wide open spaces of the North American west are frequently spotted with signs of human industrial energy production. Oil and gas wells,...
Host Nate Swick leans once again on Birding magazine editor Ted Floyd for another Random Birds discussion. The Random Number Generator has a...
They say March comes in like a lion and out like an American Birding Podcast This Month in Birding episode, and this month panel is an excep...
The early years of bird conservation in North America, is a fascinating period, featuring colorful characters and countless battles fought i...
The state of Louisiana hosts one of the world's largest repositories of ornithological knowledge, the Louisiana State University Museum of N...
The specter of a World Without Birds is certainly a sobering one, but one that could, though, inspire new birders and environmentalists to s...
February is the shortest month, but thankfully our end of the month roundtable discussion is long on fun and insight. This month's This Mont...
One of the most iconic and beloved birds of the North American west is the Clark's Nutcracker, the highlight of anyone's trip to the high co...
In 2023, ABA Area birders welcomed Chihuahuan Meadowlark to the official ABA Checklist, and subsequently to many life lists. Previously cons...
Birding editor Ted Floyd returns for another episode of random birds. This time around, the random number generator wants passerines, and Te...
It's the first This Month in Birding panel of the new year, and Nate welcomes a crew of birders featuring Mollee Brown, Frank Izaguirre, and...
2025 was an exciting year for rare bird sightings in the ABA Area, with two first ABA records and a fascinating array of interesting and une...
Science writer Ed Yong was an invaluable resource for many of us navigating the strange pandemic landscape. His writing about Covid-19 at Th...
2026 is officially the year of the Horned Lark ! This dapper little songbird can be found just about everywhere in the ABA Area, and we're e...
Jody Allair, Martha Harbison, and Rebecca Heisman join host Nate Swick for the last American Birding Podcast episode of the year, with a wid...
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, what...
Central America is home to five great tropical forests, whose presence and protection are critical to the conservation of just about every o...
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 o...
Happy Thanksgiving! At the ABA, we're thankful for birders - their passion, their deep knowledge base, and the willingness of some to come o...
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...
Smithsonian researcher Roxie Laybourne may be the most influential ornithologist you've never heard of. Over the more than half a century sh...
Can the various mating rituals, displays, and behaviors of birds apply to the lives of humans in the 21 st Century, with our own uniue ritua...
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 bird...
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 he...
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...
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 magaz...
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 rel...
The last Thursday of September means that it's time for another This Month in Birding, featuring friends from around the birding world gathe...
A Big Year is maybe the ultimate expression of birding obsession, with all the drama inherent to the effort. Brothers Quentin and Owen Reise...
For more than 40 year the National Geographic Field Guide has been an essential text in the library of US and Canadian birders. The venerabl...
Gray-headed Chickadee is certainly one of the most enigmatic species of breeding birds in the ABA Area. Though it is found broadly across no...
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'...
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 r...
Bird tourism is booming, and in many parts of the world we've seen countries invest in conservation and tourism infrastructure to take advan...
Writer Amy Tan is perhaps best known for her many novels including The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter , exploring themes of ide...
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 ne...
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...
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 w...
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...
The story of the Florida Scrub-Jay is one that encompasses many modern conservation angles and concerns. Local government, bedrock federal l...
It's our 350th episode! And to celebrate, we've brought you a super-sized This Month in Birding, and not only because the panel of Jody Alla...
You don't have to be a birder for a long time to appreciate that birds are capable of producing an astonishing array of colors and patterns,...
Break out your checklists and get ready for another summer of splits and lumps from the AOS North American Classification Committee . It's t...
An interesting study discussed on the monthly This Month in Birding segment led us to Miranda Zammarelli, a PhD student at Dartmouth who has...
The end of May means, for many of us, the end of spring. But before this magical month is over we bring a great panel of birdy friends toget...
The 2025 Biggest Week in American Birding is in the books and the American Birding Podcast was there to host a fun little game with a few fr...