Podcast Episodes

10-01: 2026 ABA Bird of the Year Artist Kristina Knowski

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 excited to …

2 months, 1 week ago

09-52: This Month in Birding - December 2025

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…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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

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 bird…

3 months ago

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

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…

3 months, 1 week ago

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

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 bo…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

09-48: This Month in Birding - November 2025

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 Ame…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

09-47: Birds and Board Games with Elizabeth Hargrave

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 th…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

09-46: The Feather Detective with Chris Sweeney

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 p…

4 months ago

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

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, displa…

4 months, 1 week ago

09-44: This Month in Birding - October 2025

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 o…

4 months, 2 weeks ago