10-08: This Month in Birding - February 2026

Nate Swick· Host0:01

Spot polar bears and scan for puffins in Norway. Sip wine and watch the fado dancers whirl to Portugal's traditional music after observing great bustards in the rolling fields. Tread lightly on a camping trip through Kenya's savannas and forests. Discover New Zealand's many endemics or marvel at Australia's prehistoric cassowaries while learning about Aboriginal history and Dreamtime. With All for Birding, travel is larger than lifers. allforbirding.com. [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the American Birding Podcast from the American Birding Association. I am your host, Nate Swick. It's the end of February, which means it's time for this month in birding. And look, I'm not gonna beat around the bush here. It is a really good one. And I think anything I say here at the top is just kind of killing time until we get to the good stuff, uh, which is a conversation between Jason Hall of Bird Joy Podcast, Sarah Swanson of the Bird Alliance of Oregon, and Miko Jimenez of the Lincoln Park Zoo Urban Wildlife Institute. Oh, but I do have one little observation that I had the other day that is mostly unrelated to anything we'll discuss later in the podcast. Um, I was driving down the highway, and I saw a common raven fly over, which is always kind of a neat bird to see in, uh, central North Carolina, where I live. And it flew over to one of those, you know, big billboards that are alongside the highway and perched right next to a pair of black vultures. Uh, and it was actually bigger than the