On our recent trip to Washington, we had two days to play with.  So we decided to go search out a lifer: Dusky Grouse.  Who knew we would find such a charming, interesting vacation destination, too!  Winthrop and the Methow Valley has a lot of great cascades birds to see and things to do.

Adventure begins at: 12:15 

Show notes
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
Spring Chirp
eBird October Global Big Day
Sun Mountain Lodge
Winthrop

eBird Trip Report 

Birds/Animals mentioned 
Kagu
Dusky Grouse
Lewis’s Woodpecker 

Intro Bird Call: Vesper Sparrow (Recorded: June 2025, Washington)
Outro Bird Call: Black-throated Gray Warbler (Recorded: June 2025, Washington) 

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Since the 1980's, Cooper's Hawks have become a more regularly sighting in cities, including Seattle.  Ed Deal, with the Urban Raptor Conservancy, has been studying them for years to find out more about these urban raptors.  

Adventure begins at: 9:55 

Show notes 

Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
America’s Favorite Couple
Urban Raptor Conservancy
Peregrine Falcons infected with Avian Influenza

eBird Trip Report 

Birds/Animals mentioned 

Cooper's Hawk

Intro Bird Call: Spotted Towhee (Recorded: June 2025, Washington)
Outro Bird Call: American Robin (Recorded: April 2020, Oregon) 

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Tufted Puffins are such an iconic seabird that so many people want to see!  A great way to see them up close is to take a bay cruise in the Salish Sea - you might even see an out-of-place Horned Puffin!  Listen in to learn about puffins, Smith Island, and the Puget Sound. 

Adventure begins at: 10:53 

Show notes 

Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
America’s Favorite Couple
Salish Sea School
McMenamins Tacoma Elks Lodge
Smith Island
Swimming anemones
Sisterhood Birding 

eBird Trip Report 

Birds/Animals mentioned 

Tufted Puffin
Horned Puffin
Atlantic Puffin
Rhinocerous Auklet 

Intro Bird Call: Pink-footed Shearwater (Recorded: July 2020 Westport Pelagic)
Outro Bird Call: Pink-footed Shearwater (Recorded: July 2020 Westport Pelagic) 

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Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has been running a Red Knot survey for the past 20 years.  We tagged along with Shorebird Biologist, Allison, to learn about the survey in Willapa Bay and why this work is important.

Adventure begins at: 12:45 

Show notes 

Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
International Bird Beer Label Association
America’s Favorite Couple
Red Knot with Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 

eBird Trip Report

https://ebird.org/checklist/S238007600  

Birds/Animals mentioned

Red Knot: https://ebird.org/species/redkno
Marbled Godwit: https://ebird.org/species/margod 

Intro Bird Call: Red Knot (Recorded May 2025, Willapa Bay, Washington)
Outro Bird Call: Red Knot (Recorded May 2025, Willapa Bay, Washington) 

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On our NYC-sampler trip, we had a little bit of time to bird on Long Island.  There was so much to see, including a few lifers and interesting sites to explore.

Adventure begins at: 10:00

Show notes

Buy me a Coffee
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
SPI Convention Center
Jones Beach
Lost Farmer Brewery Co.
A&S Bagels 

eBird Trip Report 

Birds/Animals mentioned
Purple Sandpiper
Saltmarsh Sparrow 

Intro Bird Call: Northern Cardinal (Recorded April 2025 New York City)
Outro Bird Call: Gray Catbird (Recorded April 2025 New York City)

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Audubon New York and Audubon Connecticut are partnering together to protect Piping Plovers along the shores of Long Island Sound.  There are several techniques they employ to conserve these birds, including placing exclosures over their nests.  We tagged along with Shelby, the Coastal Program Manager, and her team to see what it's all about!

Adventure begins at: 10:54

Show notes
Buy me a Coffee
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
New York Audubon
Cool Birds
SPI Convention Center
Bird Banding Lab defunding
Piping Plover Audubon Article
Theodore Roosevelt Audubon Center

eBird Trip Report

Birds/Animals mentioned
Piping Plover 

Intro Bird Call: Piping Plover (Recorded: Long Island NY, April, 2025 )
Outro Bird Call: Black Oystercatcher (Recorded: Washington, March, 2019)

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Alt title: Bird Migration in New York City

New York City has a lot to offer - food, fun, sights...and birds!  We birded around Manhattan and a bit into Brooklyn on our recent trip.  

Be warned: it's not all birds on this adventure, we had to explore some touristy sites of the city!

Adventure begins at: 8:00 

Show notes 

Buy me a Coffee
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
Global Big Day
Bird Alliance New York City
Red Knots and Horseshoe Crabs
Central Park, The Ramble
The Ramble Map
Gotham Comedy Club 

eBird Trip Report

Birds/Animals mentioned

Prothonotary Warbler

Intro Bird Call: Gray Catbird (Recorded: Central Park NY, April, 2025 )
Outro Bird Call: Northern Cardinal (Recorded: Central Park NY, April, 2025) 

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We talk about the Rio Grande Valley a lot - we know!  But that is because it one of our favorite spots to go and every trip is different.  This time we saw a lifer and tested out a new boat trip on the Rio Grande river while guiding at the Spring Chirp birding festival! 

Adventure begins at: 11:10 

Show notes
Buy me a Coffee
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
Adam Cayton-Holland
Birding is the World Brazil
Global Big Day
Spring Chirp
Blue's Chill and Grill
Nana’s Taqueria 

eBird Trip Report
https://ebird.org/tripreport/350343 

Birds/Animals mentioned
Flame-Colored Tanager
Upland Sandpiper 

Intro Bird Call: Great-tailed Grackle (Recorded: Weslaco TX, May 1st, 2025 ) 
Outro Bird Call: Plain Chachalaca (Recorded: Weslaco TX, May 1st, 2025)

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Rosemary Mosco is well-known for her educational, funny, and cute comics.  Her new book, The Birding Dictionary, offers all that and more.  Listen in as we talk comics, language, and birding.

Interview begins at: 10:20

Show notes
Buy me a Coffee
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
Adam Cayton-Holland
Birding is the World Brazil
Global Big Day
The Birding Dictionary
Rosemary Mosco, Bluesky, TikTok, Facebook

Birds/Animals mentioned
Orange-crowned Warbler
Secretarybird

Intro Bird Call: American Crow (Recorded: Clatsop County, OR May 2023)
Outro Bird Call: Orange-crowned Warbler (Recorded: Clatsop County, OR April 2020)

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Alt title: I like big birds and I cannot lie.

We were on the search for a few specific bird species while in eastern South Africa.  They were mainly big (Blue Crane, Common Ostrich, bustards, Secretarybird, etc.), which lead us to staying at a couple of cool spots!

Adventure begins at: 8:00

Show notes
Buy me a Coffee
Southeast Arizona Birding Festival
Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival
Wakkerstroom Hotel
Tala Game Reserve

eBird Trip Report
https://ebird.org/tripreport/322915 

Birds/Animals mentioned
Blue Crane
Denham’s Bustard
Cloud Cisticola
Four-colored Bushshrike 

Intro Bird Call: Black-bellied Bustard (Recorded: Wakkerstroom, South Africa February 2025)
Outro Bird Call: Four-colored Bushshrike (Recorded: Tala Game Reserve South Africa, January 2025)

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