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The American Birding Podcast — 394 episodes
10-18: Sharing Spark Birds with Jenn Lodi-Smith
10-17: This Month in Birding - April 2026
10-16: Mob Tape Malpractice? with Marty Freeland
010-15: Saving Birds to Save the Planet with Scott Weidensaul
10-14: How to be Hawky with Janet Ng
10-13: Random Birds, April 2026, with Ted Floyd
10-12: This Month in Birding - March 2026
10-11: The Feather Wars with James H. McCommons
10-10: Bird Collections, From the Inside, with Nick Mason
10-09: World Without Birds with Nick Lund
10-08: This Month in Birding - February 2026
10-07: The Nature of Nutcrackers with Peri Sasnett
10-06: How to Make a Meadowlark with Johanna Beam
10-05: Random Birds, February 2026, with Ted Floyd
10-04: This Month in Birding - January 2026
10-03: Wildest Vagrants of 2025 with Tim Healy & Alex Lamoreaux
10-02: A Post-Pandemic Birding Journey with Ed Yong
10-01: 2026 ABA Bird of the Year Artist Kristina Knowski
09-52: This Month in Birding - December 2025
09-51: Random Birds, December 2025, with Ted Floyd
09-50: The Five Great Forests with Anna Lello-Smith
09-49: Birding Book Club - Best Books of 2025
09-48: This Month in Birding - November 2025
09-47: Birds and Board Games with Elizabeth Hargrave
09-46: The Feather Detective with Chris Sweeney
09-45: Dating Like a Bird with Bryony Angell & Wenfei Tong
09-44: This Month in Birding - October 2025
09-43: Inside Merlin with Miyoko Chu & Alli Smith
09-42: Random Birds, October 2025, with Ted Floyd
09-41: Take It or Leave It: Trumpeter Swans, Probability, and the Internet of Birding
09-40: What is Birding Like?
09-39: This Month in Birding - September 2025
09-38: A Dirtbag Big Year with Owen Reiser
09-37: New Art in the New Nat Geo Guide with Andrew Guttenberg
09-36: Where Have the Gray-headed Chickadees Gone with Brad Meiklejohn
09-35: This Month in Birding - August 2025
09-34: Random Birds, August 2025, with Ted Floyd
09-33: Why Birders Go Where They Go with Natalia Ocamp-Peñuela & Scott Winton
09-32: The Backyard Bird Chronicles with Amy Tan
09-31: This Month in Birding - July 2025
09-30: Loon News you can use with Natasha Bartolotta
09-29: Bird Talk with Becca Rowland
09-28: The State of Maui's Birds with Hannah Mounce
09-27: The Case for Saving Scrub Jays with Aaron Bloom
09-26: This Month in Birding - June 2025
09-25: The Avian Rainbow with Whitney Tsai Nakashima
09-24: 2025 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
09-23: 50 Years of Songbird Maps with Miranda Zammarelli
09-22: This Month in Birding - May 2025
09-21: The Biggest Week in American Birding Podcast Quiz Show!
09-20: Random Birds, May 2025, with Ted Floyd
09-19: The Birding Dictionary with Rosemary Mosco
09-18: This Month in Birding - April 2025
09-17: Wild NYC with Ryan Mandelbaum
09-16: Birds, Wildfires, and Smoke with Olivia Sanderfoot
09-15: Looking Up with Courtney Ellis
09-14: Weird Winged Warblers with Nick Block & Matt Hale
09-13: This Month in Birding - March 2025
09-12: The 2025 State of the Birds
09-11: Random Birds XIV with Ted Floyd
09-10: The Power of Bird Data with Jer Thorp
09-09: This Month in Birding - February 2025
09-08: Urban Owls and More with Christian Cooper
09-07: 2024 ABA Rare Bird Draft with Amy Davis & Tim Healy
09-06: Habitats for Birders with Iain Campbell and Phil Chaon
09-05: This Month in Birding - January 2025
09-04: From Dinos to Birds with Christopher DiPiazza
09-03: Take It or Leave It - Mentorship, Rarity Reports, and Cameras for Beginners
09-02: Rehabilitation For the Birds with Tim Jasinski
09-01: 2025 Bird of the Year Artist Sam Zimmerman
08-51: This Month in Birding - December 2024
08-50: It's Bird-Friendly Chocolate Season with Bryony Angell
08-49: Birding Book Club - Best of 2024
08-48: City Pigeons and Urban Evolution with Elizabeth Carlen
08-47: Random Birds XIII with Ted Floyd
08-46: In Defense of Birds with Rich Fischer
08-45: Hybrid Chickadee Challenges with Amber Rice and Scott Taylor
08-44: This Month in Birding - October 2024
08-43: Gulls are for Everyone with Amar Ayyash
08-42: Return to the Sky with Tina Morris
08-41: The Courage of Birds with David Sibley
08-40: Sandy Komito, In His Own Words
08-39: This Month in Birding- September 2024
08-38: A Field Guide to Finches with Lillian Stokes and Matt Young
08-37: Inside Crane Conservation with Rich Beilfuss
08-36: Random Birds XII with Ted Floyd
08-35: This Month in Birding - August 2024
08-34: Figuring out Flamingos with Amy Davis and José Ramirez-Garafalo
08-33: Take It or Leave It - Banding, eBird, and Taxonomy
08-32: Birding Book Club - Bird Books for the Bird Continent
08-31: On Crow Culture with Kaeli Swift
08-30: This Month in Birding - July 2024
08-29: Dare to Bird with Melissa Hafting
08-28: Birding with Benefits, A Discussion
08-27: 2024 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
08-26: This Month in Birding - June 2024
08-25: The Importance of Insects with David Leatherman
08-24: Random Birds XI with Ted Floyd
08-23: Enjoying the Natural B's with Georgia Silvera Seamans & Natasza Fontaine
08-22: This Month in Birding - May 2024
08-21: Newfoundland's Euro Vagrant Phenomenon with Jared Clarke
08-20: eBird Annotated, Chicago edition, with Ted Floyd
08-19: The Birds that Audubon Missed with Kenn Kaufman
08-18: Nature Beyond Birding with Jody Allair & Frank Izaguirre
08-17: This Month in Birding - April 2024
08-16: Take it or Leave It - Seawatching, Records Committees, and Owls
08-15: Martin Migration Madness with Kevin Fraser
08-14: Random Birds, Special Edition, with Ted Floyd & John Lowry
08-13: This Month in Birding - March 2024
08-12: More than a Lawn Thrush with Emily Williams
08-11: Beat this Big Year Record with Jeff Bouton
08-10: Protecting Plovers in NYC with Chris Allieri
08-09: This Month in Birding - February 2024
08-08: Still Birding to Change the World with Trish O'Kane
08-07: 2023 Rare Bird Draft with Amy Davis & Tim Healy
08-06: The Drama of Shorebird Migration with Randall Wood
08-05: eBird Analytics with Harry Stevens
08-04: This Month in Birding - January 2024
08-03: Two-Fisted Birdwatching with Mike Lubow
08-02: 2024 Bird of the Year Artist Natasza Fontaine
08-01: Inside the Bird Name Committee
07-51: This Month in Birding - December 2023
07-50: Random Birds X with Ted Floyd
07-49: Birding Book Club - Best of 2023
07-48: Secrets of Slow Birding with Bridget Butler
07-47: This Month in Birding - November 2023
07-46: Random Birds, Vol 9, with Ted Floyd
07-45: Talking Lumps - Western Flycatchers with Alec Hopping
07-44: Meet Wayne Klockner, the ABA's New Executive Director
07-43: This Month in Birding - October 2023
07-42: The Wingsnappers with Barney Schlinger
07-41: Birding Under the Influence with Dorian Anderson
07-40: The Public Lives of Birds with David Welch
07-39: This Month in Birding - September 2023
07-38: Birding for a Better World with Sydney Golden Anderson & Meghadeepa Maity
07-37: Random Birds, Vol. 8, with Ted Floyd
07-36: Lifer Momos and Monals with Anuj Ghimire
07-35: This Month in Birding - August 2023
07-34: Secrets of Summer Birding
07-33: Birding Book Club - Books for Birders that Aren't About Birds
07-32: Birding Rwanda with Winnie Kyamujara
07-31: Remembering Tom Johnson
07-30: This Month in Birding - July 2023
07-29: Indigenous Reconnection through Birds with Alyssa Bardy
07-28: El Niño and Birds with Alvaro Jaramillo
07-27: Hear Birds Again with Lang Elliott
07-26: This Month in Birding - June 2023
07-25: Random Birds, Vol. 7, with Ted Floyd
07-24: What an Owl Knows with Jennifer Ackerman
07-23: 2023 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
07-22: For the Love of Birds
07-21: This Month in Birding - May 2023
07-20: Halcyon Kingfisher Journeys with Marina Richie
07-19: The Big Year that Flew By with Arjan Dwarshuis
07-18: The New Pyle Guide is Here with Peter Pyle!
07-17: This Month in Birding - April 2023
07-16: Creating a Kingfisher Mascot with Spencer Wilken
07-15: Antpittas and Adventure in Colombia
07-14: How to Identify Flycatchers with Cin-Ty Lee & Andrew Birch
07-13: This Month in Birding - March 2023
07-12: The Rise of Birding Culture in Colombia with Jose Martinez
07-11: Flight Paths, and the Wonder of Migration, with Rebecca Heisman
07-10: Birding, Annotated, Yet Again with Ted Floyd
07-09: Wildest Vagrants of 2022 with Amy Davis & Tim Healy
07-08: This Month in Birding - February 2023
07-07: The Avian Rainbow with Whitney Tsai Nakashima
07-06: Mindful Birding Ethics with Holly Merker
07-05: A Whole World of Seabirds with Peter Harrison
07-04: This Month in Birding - January 2023
07-03: Random Birds, Vol 6, with Ted Floyd
07-02: Winter Birding and More with Erik Bruhnke
07-01: 2023 Bird of the Year Artist Liz Clayton Fuller
06-51: This Month in Birding - December 2022
06-50: Tales from the Southern Ocean with Katinka Domen & Ted Floyd
06-49: Birding Book Club - Best of 2022
06-48: Birding While Black with J. Drew Lanham
06-47: This Month in Birding - November 2022
06-46: Burrowing Owls of San Diego with Susanne Marczak & Colleen Wisinski
06-45: Birds, Wildfires, and Smoke with Olivia Sanderfoot
06-44: A New Book about Bird Names with Susan Myers
06-43: This Month in Birding - October 2022
06-42: Trouble for Red Knots at Delaware Bay with Tim Preso
06-41: A Guide to Baby Birds with Linda Tuttle-Adams
06-40: Exploring Bird Migration with Melanie Smith & Chad Witko
06-39: This Month in Birding - September 2022
06-38: eBird, Annotated, in the Tropics with Ted Floyd
06-37: Birding without Tears: Birding and Kids with Bryony Angell
06-36: Mexican Birding Adventures with "Chucho" Moo Yam
06-35: Facts of Fall Birding with Amy Davis & Greg Neise
06-34: This Month in Birding - August 2022
06-33: The Nature of Nutcrackers with Peri Sasnett
06-32: A Lifetime of Birding Achievement with JB Brumfield and J. Drew Lanham
06-31: The Fledgling for Young Birders with Hannes Leonard & Adrianna Nelson
06-30: This Month in Birding - July 2022
06-29: Meet the New ABA Executive Director, Nikki Belmonte
06-28: Random Birds, Vol 5, with Ted Floyd
06-27: Birding Book Club - Best Birding References
06-26: This Month in Birding - June 2022
06-25: Canopy Tower Stories with Carlos Bethancourt
06-24: 2022 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
06-23: Black Birders - Embracing the Beauty Within
06-22: Unraveling the Mysteries of Bird Vagrancy with Alex Lees
06-21: This Month in Birding - May 2022
06-20: Gardening for Birds in Ohio with Julie Zickefoose
06-19: A Reference for All the Birds of the World with Brian Sullivan
06-18: The Joys of Birding Maine with Nick Lund
06-17: This Month in Birding - April 2022
06-16: The Secrets of Female Bird Song with Lauryn Benedict
06-15: Building a Community of Birdstreamers
06-14: Random Birds, Vol. 4, with Ted Floyd
06-13: This Month in Birding - March 2022
06-12: Winning for Farmers and Birders with Forrest Rowland
06-11: Secrets of Cemetery Birding with Danielle Belleny
06-10: BWD is Back with Jessica Vaughan & Mike Sacopolus
06-09: Eavesdropping on Birds with Tessa Rhinehart
06-08: This Month in Birding - February 2022
06-07: Climate Science and the CBC with Sarah Saunders & Geoff LeBaron
06-06: Birdability for Everybody with Virginia Rose & Freya McGregor
06-05: Wildest Vagrants of 2021 with Amy Davis & Tom Johnson
06-04: This Month in Birding - January 2022
06-03: A Big Year and a Bigger Purpose with Tiffany Kersten
06-02: Random Birds, Uganda Edition, with Ted Floyd
06-01: 2022 Bird of the Year Artist Christina Baal
05-51: This Month in Birding - December 2021
05-50: Discovering the Inti Tanager with Ryan Terrill
05-49: There Are Birds with Stephanie Seymour
05-48: Encore - A Life in Raptors with Jerry Liguori
05-47: This Month in Birding - November 2021
05-46: Birding Book Club - Best of 2021
05-45: Behind the Finch Forecast with Tyler Hoar
05-44: A Guide to Pigeon Watching with Rosemary Mosco
05-43: This Month in Birding - October 2021
05-42: New Faces at the ABA with Katinka Domen & Laura Guerard.
05-41: Antpittas and Adventure in Colombia
05-40: Owls of the Eastern Ice with Jonathan Slaght
05-39: This Month in Birding - September 2021
05-38: Random Birds, Vol. 2, with Ted Floyd
05-37: ENCORE - Tales of Urban Birding with J.B. Brumfield
05-36: More Than a Lawn Thrush with Emily Williams
05-35: Demystifying Molt with Dani Kaschube
05-34: This Month in Birding - August 2021
05-33: Secrets of Summer Birding
05-32: A World Full of Parrots with Stephen Pruett-Jones
05-31: A Lifeline for Kauai's Birds with Lisa Crampton
05-30: This Month in Birding - July 2021
05-29: Birding, Annotated, Again with Ted Floyd
05-28: Your Bird Story with Georgia Silvera Seamans
05-27: ENCORE - Actor Ian Harding's Odd Birds
05-26: The All Canada Episode
05-25: This Month in Birding - June 2021
05-24: Birding Book Club: Guides to Mexico and Central America
05-23: 2021 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
05-22: Listen and Conserve with Project Terra with Mike Lanzone & Scott Whittle
05-21: This Month in Birding - May 2021
05-20: Bird Policy Updates and Freedom Birders with Tykee James
05-19: Random Birds, Vol.1 with Ted Floyd
05-18: The Glitter in the Green with Jon Dunn
05-17: This Month in Birding - April 2021
05-16: Skyglow and Community Science with Lauren Pharr
05-15: Secrets of SoCal Parrots with John McCormack
05-14: A World on the Wing with Scott Weidensaul
05-13: ENCORE - The Nomadic Nature of Snow Buntings with Emily McKinnon
05-12: This Month in Birding - March 2021
05-11: ID Nation - Early Spring Challenges
05-10: Birding, annotated, with Ted Floyd
05-09: Unraveling a Nighthawk Migration Mystery with Elly Knight
05-08: This Month in Birding - February 2021
05-07: A Sparrow Back from the Brink with Andrew Walker
05-06: Birding through Pandemic and Cancer with Rebecca Heisman
05-05: In Defense of the Cowbird with Sarah Winnicki
05-04: This Month in Birding - January 2021
05-03: Notes from the High Arctic with Clare Kines
05-02: How to be "Hawky" with Janet Ng
05-01: A Guide to Bird Behavior with John Kricher
04-44: Four Years of the American Birding Podcast
04-42: Invasion of the Winter Finches with Matt Young
04-41: Birding Book Club: Best of 2020
04-40: Birding Stories from ABA Friends
04-39: This Month in Birding - November 2020
04-38: What Now in Bird Policy with Tykee James
04-37: Loving the Unloved Vulture with Katie Fallon
04-36: Kestrels in the Hood with Najada Davis
04-35: This Month in Birding - October 2020
04-34: Birding in the COVID-19 Era, Part 2
04-33: Sage-Grouse Politics and the American West with Ashley Ahearn
04-32: ENCORE - The Secret Life of Rails with Auriel Fournier
04-31: Noc-Mig Magic with Mark James Pearson
04-30: This Month in Birding - September 2020
04-29: My So-Called Lifer: Ornithology in High School with Stephen Maguire
04-28: Birding Book Club: All of a Family
04-27: Becoming a Birder, Unintentionally, with Julia Zarankin
04-26: This Month in Birding - August 2020
04-25: Finally a Field Guide to Hawaii with Helen & André Raine
04-24: Secrets of Slow Birding with Bridget Butler
04-23: The Evolution of Online Birding with Mike Bergin
04-21: Secrets of Shade-Grown Coffee with Ruth Bennett
04-20: J.J. Audubon and the Bird of Washington Fraud with Matthew Halley
04-19: How Birders Can Save the Migratory Bird Treaty Act with Tykee James
04-18: Conservation, Cooperation, and NABCI with Judith Scarl
04-17: This Month in Birding - June 2020
04-16: #BlackBirdersWeek and Its Impact with Corina Newsome & Tykee James
04-15: 2020 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
04-14: What It's Like to Be a Bird with David Sibley
04-13: This Month in Birding - May 2020
04-12: City Pigeons and Urban Evolution with Elizabeth Carlen
04-11: Birding Book Club - Big Year Narratives
04-10: The Bird Way with Jennifer Ackerman
04-08: Birding in the COVID-19 Era with Ted Floyd & Brodie Cass Talbott
04-07: Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist with Don Kroodsma
04-06: Bird Rehab Behind the Scenes with Ioana Seritan
04-05: On Non-Native Birds in the ABA Area with Peter Pyle
04-04: The Importance of a Breeding Bird Atlas with Gabriel Foley
04-03: Affinity and Identity in the QBNA with Jennifer Rycenga & Michael Retter
04-02: 2020 Bird of the Year Artist Tony Fitzpatrick
04-01: Saving a Hummingbird Haven with Sheri Williamson
03-26: The ABA at 50
03-25: Best Bird Books of 2019 with Donna Schulman
03-24: LIVE from the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
03-23: Documenting Birders on the Border with Otilia Portilla Padua
03-22: Bird Glamour with Lisa Buckley
03-21: The Secrets of Female Bird Song with Lauryn Benedict
03-20: 3 Billion Birds Lost, a Discussion with Jordan Rutter & Ted Floyd
03-19: Birding to Change the World with Trish O'Kane
03-18: Veery Meteorology with Christopher Heckscher
03-17: Birding the Rock
03-16: Inside Fantasy Birding with Matt Smith
03-15: Where Expertise Falls Short
03-14: Letters from Bird Camp with Jennie Duberstein & Robert Buckert
03-13: Bird Collision Basics with Heidi Trudell
03-12: 2019 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
03-11: Birds and Board Games with Elizabeth Hargrave
03-10: LIVE from The Biggest Week-The ABA at 50
03-09: A Season on the Wind with Kenn Kaufman
03-07: On Crow Culture with Kaeli Swift
03-06: Birding Means Business in Colombia with John Myers
03-05: Martin Migration Magic with Kevin Fraser
03-04: Birding at 100 (Issues) with Ted Floyd
03-03: Birding and the Border Wall with Tiffany Kersten
03-02: eBird's Spectacular Status & Trends with Tom Auer
03-01: 2019 Bird of the Year Artist Megan Massa
02-26: Winter Birding Basics with Ted Floyd & Greg Neise
02-25: Birds at Large with Nick Lund
02-24: Best Bird Books of 2018 with Donna Schulman
02-23: The Internet of Wildlife with Mike Lanzone
02-22: Birding By Bus with Marc Kramer & Eliana Ardila Ardila
02-21: The Feminist Bird Club Story with Molly Adams
02-20: Fall at Cape May with David La Puma
02-19: What is Birding Like?
02-18: Photography as Birding with Keith Barnes
02-17: Out There With the American Birding Expo with Bill Thompson III & Ben Lizdas
02-16: Birding while Black with Drew Lanham
02-15: Birding Without Tears 2: Birding & Kids with Bryony Angell
02-14: A Life in Raptors with Jerry Liguori
02-13: Voices from The Biggest Week- Women and ABA Big Years
02-12: 2018 Splits and Lumps with Nick Block
02-11: Birding is My Favorite Video Game with Rosemary Mosco
02-10: Birding Without Tears- Stories and Secrets of Birding With Kids
02-09: At the Champions of the Flyway with the ABA-Leica Subadult Wheatears
02-08: eBird's Global Big Day with Ian Davies & Kyle Horton
02-07: Tales of Urban Birding with Jen Brumfield
02-06: Winter Birding in Review with Mike Hudson & Tom Reed
02-05: The Joy of Birdfeeding with Jim Carpenter
02-04: Big Year Reflections with Yve Morrell
02-03: More than Birds with Jody Allair & Frank Izaguirre
02-02: The Nomadic Nature of Snow Buntings with Emily McKinnon
02-01: 2018 Bird of the Year Artist Doug Pratt
01-26: The Christmas Bird Count-stravaganza Episode
01-25: What's in a Common Name?
01-24: Best Bird Books of 2017 with Donna Schulman
01-23: Birding Without Borders with Noah Strycker
01-22: Hurricane Impacts on Caribbean Birds with Alvaro Jaramillo
01-21: Birds and the Farm Bill with Amanda Rodewald
01-20: How Photography has Changed Birding
01-19: Bird Tours from the Inside with Rockjumper's George Armistead
01-18: American Birding Expo News with Bill Thompson III
01-17: The Secret Life of Rails with Auriel Fournier
01-16: Reviewing the 2017 AOS Supplement
01-15: Birds Over the Top with Seabird McKeon
01-14: Birding, Social Media, and the Facebook Summit
01-13: Actor Ian Harding's Odd Birds
01-12: The Young Birder Episode 2017
01-11: Bird Conservation in Hawaii with Mike Parr
01-10: Voices from Biggest Week - The Good Birders Panel
01-09: The Great Canadian Birdathon with Jody Allair
01-08: 2017 Splits and Lumps, The AOS Episode
01-07: The Biggest Week with Kim Kaufman
01-06: The Field Guide to Bird Sounds with Nathan Pieplow
01-05: Champions of the Flyway with Jonathan Meyrav
01-04: Natural Soundscapes with Lang Elliot
01-03: Cornell's Merlin App with Drew Weber
01-02: The Big Big Year Episode
01-01: 2017 ABA Bird of the Year Artist Sophie Webb
00-02: Prairie Bird Conservation with Scott Somershoe
00-01: Nature Travel with Laura Kammermeier