Hey all I just wanted to post these here so I have them and don't forget them and maybe one day stumble upon them as an old man trying to remember what my voice once sounded like.
I was honored to join Tommy Siegal and Billy Libby on their excellent Extremely Accurate Bird Songs podcast to talk about one of the world's gnarliest birds, the Osprey. Listen on Spotify here or Apple Podcasts here.
I love this podcast. Tommy is a famous cartoonist, the author of the Extremely Accurate Birds calendars, and cartoons in the New Yorker and elsewhere. Billy Libby is a musician and composer and, incidentally but perhaps most importantly, is from Portland, Maine. It was great to join then and their Osprey song absolutely rips.
I was also honored to be asked to join the American Birding Association (every birder should be a member) for their This Month in Birding Podcast, along with birding luminaries Jennie Duberstein and Brodie Cass Talbot.
We had a great talk, as always, and I was particularly proud of some of the hoped-for hybrids I came up with, including the Smooth Groove Ani (Groove-billed x Smooth-billed). Good times.