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Season 2 Episode 7: Danny Bernard and his Accidental Michigan Big Year
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-pnnj6-16bb769 Well, it’s September 1, 2024, the Dog Days of Birding are behind us and fall migration is underway, signalling the end of the summer breeding season and birds booking their flights south for the winter. Happily, there are no direct flights from the breeding grounds in the north to the wintering grounds in the…
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Season 2, Episode 6: Marcus Legzdins and his 2023 HSA Big Yea
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-kidnz-168b5b2 Welcome, birders and non birders who have to put up with the birders in their lives, to the Big Year Podcast, with me, the one, the only,(thankfully), Robert Baumander. As I sit and type this introduction, it is August 1, 2024 and the unofficial start of The Dog Days of Summer. Actually, for birders…
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Season 2, Episode 4: Trailblazing Extreme Birder Lynn Barber
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-maftz-1658110 Today’s episode, features a trailblazer, who was the first woman to do a full out ABA Big Year and has been an inspiration to women in the birding world ever since she saw 723 species in 2008, one more than Sandy Komito’s first Big Year in 1986. Lynn Barber is an author and artists…
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The Trans-Canada Jay Highway
Birding changed my Life. . . I shouldn’t be alive. No, really, I shouldn’t have survived. You see, I was born in 1960 with multiple birth defects and now live with a laundry list of chronic conditions for which only modern medicine has kept me alive and mostly well, all these many years. I spent…
The Trans-Canada Jay Highway 