Bird Banter

Bird Banter


Latest Episodes

The Bird Banter Podcast#112 with Pete Janzen
September 17, 2021

On The Bird Banter Podcast #112 with Pete Janzen we talk lots about Kansas birding.  Pete wrote books about birds and birding in Kansas as well as a detailed work on the Birds of Sedgewick County, Kan

The Bird Banter Podcast #111 with Mason Maron
September 06, 2021

On The Bird Banter Podcast #111 I talk with Mason Maron, a young birder who is studying at Washington State University, is beginning a research project on Gray-crowned Rosy Finch diet changes over the

The Bird Banter Podcast #110 with Andy Stepniewski
August 28, 2021

On The Bird Banter Podcast #110 with Andy Stepniewski we talk about his passion and interest in the shrub-steppe habitat that remains near his home in Yakima County, WA, his birding story and some of

The Bird Banter Podcast #109 with Jason Vassallo
August 16, 2021

On The Bird Banter Podcast #109 with Jason Vassallo we talk about his 2021 ABA Big Year, his birding story, and other things birding. Jason is a very talented young Washington birder, and it was fun t

The Bird Banter Podcast #108 with Sophie Wickham
August 05, 2021

England has a great collection of bird observatories, mostly spaced around the coastline, some on islands, some on the main island. Sophie Wickham, my guest on this episode is the warden at the Holme

The Bird Banter Podcast #107 with David Waters
July 28, 2021

David Waters, the driving force behind the project to reintroduce Great Bustards to England, is my guest on The Bird Banter Podcast #107.  I first met  David when my wife and I visited his home to see

The Bird Banter Podcast #106 with The Birder's Show Guys
July 19, 2021

On The Bird Banter Podcast #106 the hosts of The Birder's Show, a YouTube series that debuted during the pandemic, Diego Calderón and Chris Bell are my guests.  We talk about their exciting new show,

The Bird Banter Podcast #105 with Melissa Hafting
July 08, 2021

Melissa Hafting is my guest on the Bird Banter Podcast #105, and we talk about her work with young birders in BC, her leadership of the BC Rare Bird Alert, and her birding experiences.   You can find

The Bird Banter Podcast #104 with R. Bruce Richardson
June 29, 2021

On this episode we talk birding in Australia with R. Bruce Richardson, entertainer, birder and now author of An Australian Birding Year.  Australia has been high on my most wanted list of places to go

The Bird Banter Podcast #103: Birding with Friends Again
June 18, 2021

The pandemic has kept lots of us from getting out birding with larger groups. It has crushed the ecotourism industry, but even birding clubs like our ABC Birding club here in Tacoma, WA have missed the social and birding gatherings we enjoyed prior to Co.