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Bird Watchers, Birders, Nature Lovers should hear the Bird Banter Podcast. Hear Birders talk about birdwatching, or birding for the more passionate. Hear their birding stories, about bird watching experiences, about birding research, birding travel, and birdwatching anecdotes. It’s fun, conversational and tries to be a birding ambassador to improve the world one birder at a time.
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Monday May 06, 2019
Monday May 06, 2019
In The Bird Banter Podcast Episode #14 Art Wang is Ed’s guest. Art is a longtime birder and neighbor of Ed in Tacoma. Art stated birding at a young age in California, has a long history of environmental and political activism, and has a great birding story. Enjoy.
Here is a link to the Tahoma Audubon Society Bird-a-thon fundraising page for Art’s May 11th birdathon. Proceeds go to the education, conservation and other efforts of TAS. https://tahoma.z2systems.com/np/clients/tahoma/campaign.jsp?campaign=62&fundraiser=8984&
This is a link to Ed’s recent post on the Gray’s Harbor Shorebird Festival trip mentioned in the podcast. Check out the photos. http://birdbanter.com/index.php/2019/05/06/grays-harbor-shorebird-festival-field-trip-today/
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Good birding. Good Day!
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Sunday Apr 28, 2019
Ed talks about the unexpected diversity of birding habitats found on his Morocco trip, as well as a little about the cultural differences observed between more populated and remote places.
Desert Sparrow and Fulvous Chatterer searches take up much of the last day in the desert, and on the way to Ifrane Lesser Short-toed Lark and Wood Lark are two new lifers found.
The trip is winding down. Back to Washington State birding and listerners can expect more typical episodes featuring guests coming soon.
Good birding. Good day!
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 26, 2019
After a shorter day of birding host Ed Pullen talks about birding around Merzouga, a town on the edge of the Sahara that caters to tourists wanting a taste of the desert.
Birding was great, seeing the Sahara was great, and having a shorter day was timely.
Check out BirdBanter.com for a post with photos and more details.
Good Birding. Good Day!
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Thursday Apr 25, 2019
On Day 7 of Ed's Morocco trip the group leaves Agadir heading east in the valley between the High Atlas and the Anti-Atlas Ranges, then crossed the High Atlas Range twice, first south to north, then back again in search of high-altitude specialties. Then on to spend the night in the valley, before spending Day 8 in scrub-desert headed towards the Sahara.
Highlight birds are Tristan's Warbler, Leaviallant's Woodpecker and lots of larks and wheatears.
The Moroccan world continues to be welcoming and exotic.
Check out http://birdbanter.com to see blog posts with photos and more details.
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
On Day 5 we leave Marrakech and travel to Agadir, with stops enroute for the Northern Bald Ibis, Audouin's Gull, Ruddy Shelduck, and lots more. The coast of Morocco we pass through is the vacation beach area of choice for Moroccans and has beautiful beaches, scrub-desert habitat, and lots of birds.
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
In episode #12 hose host Ed Pullen talks with Dalton Spencer, a young birder from Lewis County, WA. Ed first talks about an uncoming trip to Morocco, and then Ed and Dalton talk about life as a young birder. It brings back memories of when every birding experience was new and exciting, and they discuss how a young birder gets involved in the birding scene.
A link to Dalton's eBird profile: https://ebird.org/profile/NzUxMTc2/US-WA-041
The Legacy Tours website for the tour group Ed is joining on his upcoming Morocco Trip. https://legacy-tours.com/
A checklist from the 2016 tour with an agenda similar to Ed's Morocco Trip. https://legacy-tours.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9.April-5th-19th-2016-MOROCCO-BIRD-LIST.pdf
As a 16 year old Dalton organized and complied the numbers for a new Christmas Bird Count in Lewis County, WA. Here is a link to a local newspaper article about that effort. http://www.chronline.com/christmas-bird-count-comes-to-lewis-county/article_c668242c-040f-11e9-b40f-d7bdf9924154.html
Please check out BirdBanter.com for more related info, and for news as Ed tours Morocco.
Until next time, Good Birding! Good Day!
Saturday Apr 20, 2019
Saturday Apr 20, 2019
On the 4th day of my Morocco Birding Tour we drove from Marrakech (not the butchered city name I use in this one take recording) to a ski resort on Oukoimeden Mountain in the High Atlas Range. Our elevation in the parking lot from where we walked up was 8600' and we walked 7+ miles, so I'm about ready to crash as I post this episode.
Our in-country guide is Mohamed Bargache, so we joked that today Mohamed took us to the mountain.
The bird mentioned is Crimson-winged Finch, not bunting or sparrow as I said in the recording.
I hope you are enjoying my one-take and publish episodes from this trip.
I'll also post blog summaries of many of the days.
Good birding. Good day!
Friday Apr 19, 2019
Friday Apr 19, 2019
On the third day of the Legacy Tours Morocco Trip we birded again in the upland area north of Rabat in heavy rain, and then stopped once at a Gazelle reintroduction preserve on the way to Marrakech. The birds were cool, but the Medina at Marrakech is the primary topic of this brief episode.
Enjoy.
Good birding. Good day!
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
In this second unedited podcast recording from Morocco Ed talks about the first 2 days experience with Legacy Tours in the areas around Rabat, the Morocco capital city north of Casablanca where the flight landed, and the trip Morocco experience bagan.
The local guide is Mohamed Bargache, a certified local birding guide, and very good Moroccan in-country guide.
Tomorrow we head south again, and will be staying in Marrakech, an ancient city and will be birding our way there after a bit more birding in the north coast area. Stay tuned for more when I'm able to record and publish another update.
Good birding. Good day!
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
In this episode Ed does a one-take brief recording from outside the Hotel Toubkal in Casablanca, Morocco about 4:45 AM after a jet-lagged night. Please forgive the errors and the city noise, especially calling Michael Carmody, guest on the last episode, and tour guide whom I call Michael Legacy (his tour group is Legacy Tours) as I'm putting these up unedited, mistakes and city noise and all.
The lark I butcher the name of is the Maghreb Lark, recently split from the Crested Lark as its own species. Here is a link to a PDF discussing the status of this group. https://crbpo.mnhn.fr/IMG/pdf/Guillaumet_et_al_2006_galerida_MolPhylEvol.pdf
I put up a blog post about our day 1 birding on BirdBanter.com http://birdbanter.com/index.php/2019/04/16/a-day-in-casablanca-to-recover/
Until next time, Good Birding. Good Day!