The American Birding Podcast
1) 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 and their random number generator and end up talking ...Show More
2) 09-42: 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 collect some historic hot takes for another edition o...Show More
3) 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 sport? An obsession? In this encore episode from 20...Show More
4) 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 talk about interesting bird news and science from th...Show More
5) 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 attempt at a Big Year maybe most of all. It’s the subjec...Show More
6) 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 is in its 8th edition now, published as East and We...Show More
7) 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 Eurasian it was, until very recently, also known from...Show More
8) 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 news and scientific publications. Jason Hall, Mikk...Show More
9) 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 number generator for an eclectic bunch of birds from w...Show More
10) 09-33: Why Birders Go Where They Go with Natalia Ocamp-Peñuela & Scott Winton
Bird tourism is booming, and in many parts of the world we’ve seen countries invest in conservation and tourism infrastructure to take advantage of it. Certainly birders are drawn by unique species, b...Show More