Show Notes
If you prefer nature to people, birdsong to screeching tyres and secretly want to crash the economy via mass workplace dropout due to a bird language contagion, you will go absolutely crackers for this convo.
Andrew Turbill aka. THE BIRD GUY [https://andrewthebirdguy.com/] is here to share his epic and somewhat perilous birding quests for 2025, from stalking Logrunners to sidestepping fascists and recording a full blown predator attack in the sky.
F****** fabulous listening for anyone under the spell of birds.
Andrew's 2025 to-do list
1. find out where our local superb lyrebirds (well, at least 1 lyrebird anyway) nest and get an audio recording of the young bird begging or alarm calls 2. get a decent photo of a logrunner 3. build an elevated sit spot platform in the forest 4. spend more time in the forest socialising with songbirds and less time doom-scrolling about the callous and cruel manifestations of psychopaths, narcissists and fascists 5. record audio of a full-sequence aerial predator attack 6. keep my bird baths full 365 days of the year 7. devise a way to dissuade catbirds and fairy-wrens from mercilessly pummeling my windows at dawn throughout spring and summer 8. find someone desperate enough to make some walking-around money to enter 30 years of my naturalist seasonal field observations into a data base or excel spreadsheet so i make some effing sense of them 9. take on a bird language apprentice 10. visit my mum more often
LINKY POOS 🧙♀️
Robin Wall Kimmerer [https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/]
Andrew Turbill's online nest [https://andrewthebirdguy.com/]
Andrew on ABC Radio National [https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/bird-language/104486598]
You were once a Bird Language Samurai, and can be again ~ Andrew Turbill [https://andrewthebirdguy.com/2021/09/09/you-were-once-a-bird-language-samurai-and-can-be-again/]
Megalania goanna!!! [https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/extinct-animals/megalania-prisca/]
Jon Young [https://www.jonyoung.org/]
Voices of birds page on Andrew's website [https://andrewthebirdguy.com/bird-calls/]
Upcoming Bird Language events + retreats [https://andrewthebirdguy.com/retreats/]
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