Podcast Episodes
Back to Search09-43: Inside Merlin with Miyoko Chu & Alli Smith
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 pe…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
09-42: Random Birds, October 2025, with Ted Floyd
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 an…
5 months ago
09-41: Take It or Leave It: Trumpeter Swans, Probability, and the Internet of Birding
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 co…
5 months, 1 week ago
09-40: What is Birding Like?
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 …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
09-39: This Month in Birding - September 2025
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 t…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
09-38: A Dirtbag Big Year with Owen Reiser
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 attem…
6 months ago
09-37: New Art in the New Nat Geo Guide with Andrew Guttenberg
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 …
6 months, 1 week ago
09-36: Where Have the Gray-headed Chickadees Gone with Brad Meiklejohn
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 Eu…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
09-35: This Month in Birding - August 2025
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…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
09-34: Random Birds, August 2025, with Ted Floyd
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 num…
6 months, 3 weeks ago