Episode #27: Music & Birds: Jonathan Meiberg of Shearwater
Posted on July 26, 2010
Episode Duration: 31 minutes, 32 seconds
Host Bill Thompson III interviews Jonathan Meiberg, leader of the indie-rock band Shearwater. Both a musician and a bird watcher, Jonathan Meiberg sparked on music at an early age, but he did not catch the birding bug until his college years, while on a visit to the Falkland Islands. In this episode Bill and Jonathan discuss a range of topics including songwriting, bird behavior, life birds, and the vagaries of small travel guitars. Interspersed throughout the interview are short samples of Shearwater's music.
Episode #26: Voices of Guyana
Posted on May 28, 2010
Episode Duration: 58 minutes, 49 seconds
Host Bill Thompson, III, journeys to Guyana on a tour to sample the birdlife of this little-known South American country. Along the way he talks to Amerindian guides, ecotourism visionaries, international travel experts, and government officials about how and why Guyana is emerging as a world-class birding destination. Oh, and Bill and his fellow birders also see and hear nearly 400 species of birds, too!
Episode #25: An Englishman in Florida
Posted on February 16, 2010
Episode Duration: 22 minutes, 16 seconds
In episode 25 of
This Birding Life, English birder Bo Beolens recounts his first birding trip to Florida. Bo Beolens is better known as the Fatbirder which is also the name of his popular website
Fatbirder.com. This episode is based on his article for
Bird Watcher's Digest, "An Englishman in Florida." Along the way Bo suffers the pain of international air travel, frets about amusement parks, feels the thrill of seeing life birds, and the joy of making new friends.
Episode #24: Birding in Panama
Posted on December 9, 2009
Episode Duration: 29 minutes, 59 seconds
Host Bill Thompson, III, travels to Panama on a birding "fam" trip. During the eight-day trip he and his group of birding journalists and travel professionals tallied more than 250 bird species and learned a great deal about this narrow isthmus of land connecting Central and South America. The itinerary followed a new birding circuit created by Panama La Verde, which aims to direct ecotourists to birding spots and eco-lodges in wonderful, but little-known regions of Panama. Bill and his traveling companions share some of their experiences and impressions, plus favorite bird sightings, from their journey on the Panama La Verde birding circuit.
Episode #23: The Big Sit!
Posted on November 12, 2009
Episode Duration: 20 minutes, 28 seconds
Host Bill Thompson, III, interviews participants in the 2008 Big Sit! held in the birding tower on his farm, Indigo Hill, in southeastern Ohio. The Sit! is a worldwide annual event held on the second Sunday in October. Although the birding during this time of year may not be as thrilling as, say, in May or September, Big Sitters agree that the camaraderie of spending time with friends makes this event a highlight of the birding year.
