This Birding Life (Enhanced) show

This Birding Life (Enhanced)

Summary: This Birding Life (Enhanced Format). This Birding Life is a podcast from the folks at Bird Watcher’s Digest. And like the magazine’s content, the topics covered by This Birding Life range far and wide -- from the backyard to the tropics, from bird feeding to bird chasing, from authors reading from their books to birders talking about their "spark" bird. This Birding Life is guaranteed to make you think, laugh, and want to spend more time out there with the birds. It’s all about this wonderful hobby we share: watching and enjoying wild birds. Welcome to This Birding Life! Look for our Podcast in the iTunes Music Store.

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Podcasts:

 Episode 64: Voices of India | File Type: video/x-m4v | Duration: 56:16

Host Bill Thompson, III, takes us on a journey to India for the second-annual Uttar Pradesh Bird Festival and introduces us to fellow birders from India and around the world.

 Episode 63: Voices of the Honduras Birding for Conservation Tour | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 47:31

Host Bill Thompson, III, talks to participants in the 2016 Honduras Birding for Conservation Tour which raised more than $50,000 for conservation projects. His team, the Velveteen Cotingas finished last in the bird list competition but first in the fun category.

 Episode 62: An Interview with Rockjumper Birding Tours | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 21:24

Host Bill Thompson, III, interviews Adam Riley and Keith Valentine of Rockjumper Birding Tours. His guests talk about birding tourism, unknown destinations, doing well by doing good, and share their harrowing birding adventures.

 Episode 61: My Jinx Bird | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 21:24

Host Bill Thompson, III, takes us along on a quest to find his jinx bird, the Connecticut warbler, in northernmost Minnesota.

 Episode 60: A Visit to the Cornell Lab | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 57:54

Join host Bill Thompson, III, on a visit to the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY and learn more about the Lab's citizen science projects, bird conservation research, young birders outreach, and rich history of bird study.

 Episode 59: Birding Portugal | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 1:07:05

Host Bill Thompson, III, takes us along on a week of birding in southern Portugal. This European country is a world famous destination for wine, seafood, history, culture, and now, birding! Portugal’s leading birder, Joao Jara, tells us all about his native land.

 Episode 58: A Conversation with Julie Zickefoose | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 49:40

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, enjoys a wide-ranging conversation with author/artist/naturalist Julie Zickefoose about her new book: “Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest.”

 Episode 57: The Honduras Birding for Conservation Tour | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 41:05

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, chats about the upcoming Honduras Birding for Conservation Tour with founder James Adams and event guides Jeffrey A. Gordon and Alex Alvarado.

 Episode 56: Champions of the Flyway, Part I | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 56:29

TBL Host Bill Thompson, III, examines the monumental conservation effort being undertaken to stop the illegal killing of birds along the Mediterranean flyway.

 Episode 55: Backyard Rarity, Part II | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 1:32:05

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, gets deeper into the experience of finding a rare western flycatcher in his Ohio backyard.

 Episode 54: Backyard Rarity, Part I | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 29:39

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, talks with avid birders who came from hours away to see a rare bird in his backyard.

 Episode 53: Great Birding Stories, Vol. 1 | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 30:50

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, shares some of the interesting stories he’s gathered in his birding travels: strange animal behavior, mistaken identity, acts of kindness, moments of discovery, spark birds, and memorable passages of life.

 Episode 52: Birding in Uganda, Part II | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 50:39

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, takes us along on the second part of his journey through Uganda, birding, trekking for chimpanzees and mountain gorillas, seeing lions, and encountering some of Uganda’s future birding guides. He even gets invited for an audience with an ambassador!

 Episode 51: Birding in Uganda, Part I | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 41:42

TBL host Bill Thompson, III, takes us along on the first part of a journey to Uganda in East Africa where he competed in the annual Birding Big Day in Murchison Falls National Park.

 Episode 50: Interview with Ted Floyd of the ABA | File Type: audio/x-m4a | Duration: 22:53

TBL Host Bill Thompson, III, interviews Ted Floyd, editor of Birding Magazine from the American Birding Association.

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