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- BCR 096: Twan Leenders, President, Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Twan Leenders assumed the position as President and CEO of Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History RTPI in 2012. Guided by Peterson’s example, Leenders actively studies natural history and strives to make nature accessible to everyone. Twan reccieved his doctoral degree from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands and has more than 20 years experience as a conservation biologist, college professor, researcher, author, and nature photographer.
Show Notes:
- Tells us about your multi faceted background as a professional biologist, teacher and expedition researcher.
- I understand that you discovered a species of Salamander.
- What is the Roger Tory Peterson Institute RTPI, how was it started? What is the mission?
- Tell us about Roger Tory Peterson’s legacy.
- How did you become involved with the Institute?
- What kinds of programs are offered? Can one visit the institute?
- What is your current role there, how do you carry out the charter mandate of the RTPI?
- Tell us about the “Action Plan.”
- Tell us about Project Wild America and youth ambassadors?
- What other active programs do you have? I read about a SUNY Fredonia Professor whose groundbreaking research on plastic pollution in the Great Lakes.
- I understand that there is an interest in digitizing the Peterson papers to facilitate study.
- What is the connection with Connecticut based projects?
- What advice would you give to young people interested in a career in the natural sciences?
Mentioned in This episode:
Roger Tory Peterson Institute
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52 min - BCR 095: Deborah Rivel & Kellye Rosenheim
Deborah Rivel and Kellye Rosenheim are Co-Authors of the book “Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island.”
Deborah Rivel is an award-winning independent wildlife film producer/director who has been interested in birds, wildlife, and their conservation most of her life. Since 2004, she has been creating nature-focused products, including the first Peterson Field Guides apps for iPhone and ringtones for mobile devices through her company Wildtones. Raised in New Jersey, she is a longtime resident of NYC and nearby birding hotspot, Cape May, New Jersey. Deb is a board member of Audubon New York and Dr. Irene Pepperberg’s avian cognition research project, The Alex Foundation. An avid bird photographer who regularly explores the wilds of NYC and the New Jersey beaches for subjects, she has traveled to six continents in search of birds.
Kellye Rosenheim grew up in Louisiana where she was surrounded by all manner of wildlife, but took up birdwatching in New York City’s Central Park. She has led walks for the Nature Conservancy and New York City Audubon where she now works as Director of Development.
Show Notes:
- How good is the bird watching in New York City?
- How did you decide to include the five burrows.
- Take us through one of your entries.
- Photographs add a nice touch to the book.
- beautifully detailed maps.
- Public transportation in NYC plays a big role.
- As conservationists, what concerns you the most about the area covered in the book?
Mentioned In This Episode:
Birdwatching in New York City and on Long Island
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55 min - BCR 094: Greg Miller
Greg Miller has been birding for over 50 years and have birded in all 50 states and much of Canada. And I have always been smitten by the birding bug. I love to get outside and go find birds. Every trip out is an adventure!
In 1998 I zigzagged across the continent–traveling 130,000 miles while trying to hold down a full time job at a nuclear power plant–to try to see as many species of birds in one calendar year as possible. It was an incredible experience passing the 700-species mark—an achievement many birders aspire to in a lifetime. But there was competition.
Two other birders, Sandy Komito and Al Levantin also did Big Years the same year as me and also broke the 700-mark. Our competitive quests are documented in the 2004 non fiction book, The Big Year, by Pulitzer Prize winning author Mark Obmascik. And unbelievably, Twentieth Century Fox made a full feature motion picture inspired by the book! It has A-list actors Jack Black, Steve Martin, and Owen Wilson and a really strong support cast. It was produced by Ben Stiller and directed by David Frankel (who also did Marley & Me and The Devil Wears Prada).
Show Notes:
- Famous Birdwatcher, movie”The Big Year”Jack Black portrays Greg Miller in the movie.
- Windex for The Soul
- The Big year
- The Miller Scale
- The Impatient Birders Guide to North America
Mentioned In This Episode:
Greg Miller Birding Website
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27 min - BCR 093: Laura Erickson
Laura has been blathering about birds since she memorized the “Bird” entry in her family’s encyclopedia when she was a preschooler. She whistled in a cardinal when she was very little, and once saw a whole flock of warblers in the tree outside her bedroom window, though she thought they must be the angels of canaries that died saving miners’ lives.
Laura didn’t know how to identify birds until after her mother-in-law gave her a field guide and binoculars for Christmas in 1974. By the late ’70s she was subjecting her middle-school students in Madison, Wisconsin, and readers of her occasional columns in The Wisconsin State Journal to endless stories about birds. She moved to Duluth, Minnesota, and started producing “For the Birds,” a radio spot now airing on independent public and community radio stations from Oregon to New York, in 1986. “For the Birds” is the longest-running radio program about birds in the United States.
Laura is currently a contributing editor of BirdWatching magazine, author of eleven books, including 101 Ways to Help Birds, the American Birding Association Field Guide to Minnesota Birds, and the National Geographic Pocket Guide to North American Birds, and she collaborates on projects with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where she served as science editor from 2008–2010.
Laura served as a licensed wildlife rehabilitator focused primarily on songbirds and especially Common Nighthawks while she was a stay-at-home mother in the 80s and 90s; has counted raptors and songbirds at Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory and other sites in Duluth, Minnesota; and studied nighthawk digestion as part of an ill-fated Ph.D project. Her professor, Dr. Gary Duke (co-founder of The Raptor Center) told her she was the “world authority on nighthawk digestion” even as he mentioned that no one else particularly wanted that distinction.
An avid birder, Laura saw 604 species (593 countable by ABA rules) during her “2013 Conservation Big Year,” and until recently was listed in the top ten overall on the ABA “Listing Central” for Lower 48 Big Years.
Show Notes:
- First and only woman recipient of the American Birding Association’s prestigious Roger Tory Peterson Award.
- Your interest in birds and what were the formative events from your early days.
- Widely published author of eleven books about birds.
- Favorite and hardest book to write.
- Currently a contributing editor of BirdWatching Magazine.
- Tell us about the “Nighthawk digestion” episode.
- Longest-running “For The Bird” radio program in the USA for many public radio stations for 31 years, since 1986.
- The 2013 Conservation Big Year.
- PIP the birding dog.
- Challenges you have faced or still face in the science and birding world.
- Words of wisdom do you have for women who share your interests and want to make a contribution to the field.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Laura Erickson Website
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1 hr 7 min - BCR 092: Kenn Kaufman, Author & Naturalist
Kenn Kaufman burst onto the North American birding scene as a teenager in the 1970s, hitch-hiking all over the continent in pursuit of birds, an adventure later chronicled in his cult-classic book Kingbird Highway.
After working as a leader of nature tours to all seven continents, he made a transition into a career as a freelance writer, artist, and naturalist. Kenn has been a field editor for Audubon magazine since 1997, and now writes a regular column for the Audubon website, “Kenn Kaufman’s Notebook,” illustrating it with his own drawings and paintings.
His book projects have included his own field guide series, Kaufman Field Guides, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company of Boston. This series now includes volumes on North American birds, butterflies, mammals, insects, and advanced bird ID, plus guides to nature of New England and the Midwest. His other books include Lives of North American Birds and Flights Against the Sunset.
In 2005 he moved from Arizona to Ohio, where his wife Kimberly is executive director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory. His current projects include painting portraits of birds and writing a narrative account of spring migration. Kenn is a Fellow of the American Ornithological Society, and has received the American Birding Association’s lifetime achievement award twice—a distinction shared only with the late Chan Robbins.
Show Notes:
- Your early days and origins of your interest in all things birds
- “Kingbird Highway” was a defining event for you
- Your early career, tell us what paths you took to develop your particular skills.
- Artist or illustrator?
- Field Guide to Birds
- The entire Field Guide series followed
- Self funded the Spanish Language edition of your Bird Guide
- What issues do you lend your voice to these days?
- Is birdwatching or birding still fun?
Mentioned In This Episode:
BCR 165: Kenn Kaufman, A Season on the Wind, Inside The World Of Spring Migration.
Kaufman Field Guides
Guía de campo Kaufman a las aves de Norteamérica
Black Swamp Bird Observatory – Donate Directly to the Guia
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40 min - BCR 091: Biggest Week Festival 2017 Snippets
On today’s show, I am reporting live from several different locations in Northwest Ohio. This area is a world renowned migrant trap during spring migration of songbirds. Many people flock here to get their fill of warblers and other little gems at this time of year. I am also attending the Biggest Week in American Birding Festival, now in it’s eight year, that takes place at the same time. This festival is hosted by the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, under the guidance of Executive Director, Kimberly Kaufman and an incredible team of staff and numerous volunteers.
Many people from around the world agreed to be interviewed by me for this episode of BirdCallsRadio and they tell us why they come to this area for this segment called Biggest Week Snippets.
This is one of my favorite places to visit annually in the spring as it always fills my heart and soul with hope seeing these beautiful songbirds that make the long northward journey from the Caribbean, Central and South America to their breeding grounds.
Plus, I look forward to next year’s Biggest Week 2018 that will take place from May 4-13, 2018.
Thank you to all the wonderful people who took time from birding and were kind enough to stop and share their thoughts with me for episode #091 on BirdCallsRadio.
Show Notes:
Biggest Week Birding Festival & Magee Marsh Interview Moments in Northwest Ohio.
- Marie from PA
- Richie & Diana Clarke from Ottawa Canada
- Loylia & Chuck Estis from Tenn
- Barb Stumin from Florida
- Moushanadi from India, now living in Michigan.
- Tom & Mike from OH
- Sandra from Ontario Canada
- Laura Guerard OH
Mentioned In This Episode:
BCR 131: Biggest Week 2018 Moments
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45 min - BCR 090: Joan Collins, Adirondacks
Joan Collins is President of the New York State Ornithological Association and Editor of New York Birders. She is also Vice-President of Northern New York Audubon, past President of High Peaks Audubon Society, and past member of the Board of Directors for the Audubon Council of New York State.
Joan is the President of Adirondack Avian Expeditions & Workshops, LLC, leads birding field trips year-round, is a New York State licensed guide, an Adirondack 46er, and has climbed all the Adirondack fire tower peaks. She is a frequent guest speaker and teaches classes on ornithology topics. Joan has published several journal, magazine, and newspaper articles on wildlife and conservation topics in various publications including New York Birders, Conservationist, and The Kingbird.
She authored several warbler species accounts, in addition to serving as a peer reviewer for The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State. Mountain Lake PBS, Adirondack Explorer, and Adirondack Life magazine have featured pieces on Joan, and her regular birding segments with Todd Moe can be heard on North Country Public Radio.
Show Notes:
- Where did birding lead you?
- What are the advantages of ear birding
- You are fascinated by bird sounds and their behaviors, including migratory behavior.
- Dramatic changes in the Adirondacks from a warming climate.
- The Adirondacks region is important for warbler breeding.
- The annual census of the winter food crop.
- Some of the effective conservation measures underway in the Adirondacks today.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Joan Collins Website: Adirondack Avian Expeditions
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47 min - BCR 089: Patrick Lynch, Long Island Sound
Patrick J. Lynch is an author, illustrator, photographer, and artist. Lynch retired from Yale University after 45 years as an interactive media designer, medical illustrator, biomedical and scientific photographer, video producer, a director of media and communications departments, and a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and Web sites. Lynch is the author or co-author of eight books published by Yale University Press, including his latest book this year 2017, “A Field Guide to Long Island Sound.” A comprehensive guide to the environmental history, natural environments, plants, and animals of the Sound.
Lynch retired from Yale University after 45 years as an interactive media designer, medical illustrator, biomedical and scientific photographer, video producer, and for the past 30 years a director of media and communications departments, and a designer of interactive multimedia teaching, training, and informational software and Web sites.
Show Notes:
- How does this book relate to birdwatchers.
- Fascinated historically by how the sound was created by glaciers.
- What’s the most surprising thing we should know about Long Island Sound?
- Primary environmental challenges to Long Island Sound.
- What impact would you like to see for your book?
- Why do you think people aren’t more conscious of the Sound as a great natural environment.
Mentioned In This Episode:
BCR 147: Patrick Lynch, Cape Cod
If your interested on more about Partick J Lynch and his new book “A Field Guide to Long Island Sound” please go to Patrick Lynch’s Website: Coast Field Guides
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43 min - BCR 088: Deborah Cramer Author, The Narrow Edge
Deborah Cramer, Author, The Narrow Edge at Wingersheek Beach in Gloucester, MA. © Shawn G. Henry.
Deborah Cramer, a visiting scholar at MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative, Deborah lives with her family at the edge of a salt marsh in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she eagerly awaits the return of migrating birds in the spring. She’s the author of Great Waters, a natural history of the Atlantic (W.W. Norton), and Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water Our World, the companion to the Ocean Hall at the U.S. National Museum of Natural History. The Narrow Edge, her most recent book, received the 2016 Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the 2016 Best Book Award from the National Academies of Science, and the 2016 Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center, honoring “the power of writing to change hearts and minds”.
Show Notes:
- This is your third book, how does it rank in your mind with the others?
- How did you come up with the title of the book?
- Why are the Red Knot Shorebird/Horseshoe crabs the new canaries in a coal mine.
- You describe the migration stops of the Red Knot rungs on a ladder.
- Review the story of the Red Knot and the Horseshoe crab and their connection.
- Does losing one more bird matter?
- The Ghost Trail
- You seem to maintain an overall positive outlook about what could be taken as a profoundly hopeless series of events. Can you tell use why?
- Challenges that you had to overcome to write this book?
- In your travels to research and report this story, What were the biggest surprises, or most memorable?
Mentioned In This Episode:
Deborah Cramer website
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1 hr - BCR 087: Lisa White, Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lisa A. White is an executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In addition to the Peterson Field Guide series and the Kaufman Field Guide series, she has edited books by Pete Dunne, Lang Elliott, Tim Gallagher, Bill Thompson III, Scott Weidensaul, and Julie Zickefoose, to name just a few.
She completed the MassAudubon Birder’s Certificate Program in 2015.
She enjoys representing HMH at various birding festivals throughout the year; stop by and say hi if you’re at one!
Lisa lives in the Boston area with her husband, two sons, one dog, and two indoor cats.
Show Notes:
- Your current station at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- What exactly does an Executive Editor do?
- Major steps in the creation of a non fiction title.
- Preparing the material and then seeking a publisher.
- Difficulties an author, working with a publisher, must overcome.
- Obstacles the author/editor team must overcome.
- What role author agents play in the publishing process.
- Co-Editor, Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White, your 2nd book.
- What great subject is still awaiting its author?
- How have digital outlets impacted your business?
- Potential for growth in the digital marketplace.
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