The Birder's Guide
Travel across Australia and abroad with professional birding guide Michael Greenshields, as he chats to passionate birders, researchers and ornithologists about our incredible birdlife, as well as exploring some of our best birding locations.
Episodes
51 episodes
The Birder's Guide: Update for 2022
No interview in this very quick chat, just an update on where The Birder's Guide is headed in 2022.
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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2:28
#50 Feral Cats: Hugh McGregor
In this episode we chat to Hugh McGregor who has spent most of his career working on the subject of feral cats in Australia.If you'd like to read his PhD thesis mentioned in this podcast it can be found here: https://eprints.utas.edu.au...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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1:15:17
#49 Birding in an Age of Extinctions: Martin Painter
In this episode, we chat to Martin Painter about his recently published book 'Birding in the Age of Extinctions', a book about being a birder in an age of environmental decline.To watch the YouTube video:
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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1:18:09
#48 Youngest Australian woman to see 700 species: Donna Belder
In this episode we chat to Donna Belder about her personal birding, bird banding and being the youngest Australian woman to see 700 species.
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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44:57
#47 Regent Honeyeaters: Dean Ingwersen
In this episode we chat to Dean Ingwersen about his work with BirdLife Australia trying to save the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater.Available anywhere you get your podcasts or from the following link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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1:03:58
#46 Night Parrots: John Young
In this episode we chat to John Young about his obsession with Night Parrots and the night when he famously captured the very first photograph of a live Night Parrot back in 2013.
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Episode 46
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1:12:33
#45 Birding without Borders: Noah Stryker
In this episode, another international special guest, we chat to Noah Stryker who, in 2015, set out to break the record for the most birds seen in a single year around the world.If you'd like to buy any of his books, read his blog, watc...
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Episode 45
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47:33
#44 Victoria Big Year 2021: Grace Lewis
In this episode we chat to Grace Lewis about her year trying to break the record for most species seen in Victoria in a calendar year.
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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38:59
#43 Seabirds: Peter Harrison
In this episode we chat to Peter Harrison about his own incredible personal journey with birds as well as his spectacular new publication 'Seabirds: The New Identification Guide'.This episode is only available as a podcast, not as a You...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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1:02:39
#42 Josep Del Hoyo: All the Birds of the World
In this video, another of our special international guest episodes, we chat to Josep Del Hoyo about his own birding journey as well as Lynx's new book 'All the Birds of the World'.Want to watch our conversation on YouTube? You can find ...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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1:04:53
#41 Nankeen Kestrels: Taylor Headland
Taylor Headland has recently started his PhD looking into the ecology of our most numerous raptor, the Nankeen Kestrel. We chat to him in this episode about his research.
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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40:56
#40 Birding as a Wildlife Ecologist: Tom Hunt
In this episode we chat to Wildlife Ecologist Tom Hunt about his passion for birds, birding and all things nature.This is also the first conversation that I've released on YouTube, viewable here:Tom's Instagram: https://www.inst...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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58:50
#39 Goog's Track, Mt Ive and Stuart Highway: Michael Greenshields
In this episode, our second trip report, we chat about a tour I led recently with John and Christine looking for Grasswrens and Chestnut-breasted Whiteface in South Australia.
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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20:38
#38 Orange-bellied Parrots: Toby Galligan
In this episode we chat to Toby Galligan, the OBP Recovery Program Coordinator about all things Orange-bellied Parrots.
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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1:04:12
#37 Birding Tourism: Rochelle Steven
In this episode we chat to Rochelle Steven about her research into avian based tourism as well as birding in general.
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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58:39
#36 Bird Photography: Craig Greer
In this episode we chat to Adelaide based bird photographer Craig Greer about all thing photography.Craig's information, photos and workshops can be found in the following locations:Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/craiggreerphot...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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1:01:04
#35 A Big Year in New Zealand: Harry Boorman
In this episode, our 4th international, we speak to Harry Boorman who is doing a Big Year across New Zealand during 2021.
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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44:06
#34 Strzelecki Track: Michael Greenshields
Something different this week, a trip report from my recent trek up to Innamincka and Cameron Corner. Hope you enjoy it.Sorry everyone! Made a mistake in editing. Audio should now be there for the first 6 and a half minutes.
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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48:07
#33 Purple-crowned Fairy-wrens: Niki Teunissen
In this epsiode, we chat to Niki Teunissen about her work with Purple-crowned Fairy-wrens in the Kimberly region of Western Australia.
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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42:17
#32 Academic, author and bird-catcher extraordinaire: Rohan Clarke
In this chat we speak to Rohan Clarke about his work as an ecologist, his role in co-authoring 2 of Australia's best known books on birds and his experience of being dropped into an active bushfire zone by Chinook helicopter to save Eastern Bri...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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40:54
#31 Antarctic Petrels, Rockhopper Penguins and Norway: Nina Dehnhard
In this epsiode, our 3rd international chat, we talk to Nina Dehnhard about her research with Petrels in Antarctica, Rockhopper Penguins in the Falkland Islands and general birding around Norway.Available anywhere you get your podcasts ...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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51:42
#30 Whistlers, Shrike-thrushes and climate change: Isabelle Onley
In this episode we chat to PhD candidate Isabelle Onley, about her honours project researching Whistlers and Shrike-thrushes and part of their response to climate change.
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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42:41
#29 WA's first Night Parrot: Nigel Jackett
In this episode we speak to Nigel Jackett about Australia's rarest parrot, the Night Parrot and how he and 3 mates found the first one in Western Australia.
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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40:44
#28 Cairns Esplanade: Adrian Walsh
In this episode, part 2 of our chat with Adrian Walsh we discuss birding the Cairns Esplanade as well as a few other spots in and around Cairns.
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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45:38
#27 The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World: Vernon Head
In this episode, the 2nd of our internationally focused conversations, we chat to South African birder Vernon Head about his book 'The Search for the Rarest Bird in the World' where he and 3 friends searched for the Nechisar Nightjar.If...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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45:43