The Birder's Guide
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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.
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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.
#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 lik...
#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 a...
#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.
#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.
#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 li...
#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 s...
#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.
#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: T...
#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...
#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...
#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...
#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 Whit...
#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.
#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.
#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 work...
#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.
#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!...
#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.
#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 expe...
#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 Falkla...
#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 respons...
#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 Aust...
#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.
#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...
#26 Nordmann's Greenshank: Adrian Walsh
In this episode, part 1 of 2, we chat to Adrian Walsh who found a Nordmann's Greenshank in Cairns in January 2021.
#25 A Big Year: Geoff Groom
In this episode we chat to Geoff Groom who is doing a Big Year across WA in 2021.
As a side note, I forgot to ask how you can follow alon...
#24 A Big Year: Mike Potter
In this epsiode, our first for 2021, we chat to Mike Potter who is doing a Big South Australian Year.
#23 Shorebirds and Antarctica: Adrian Boyle
In this episode we chat to Adrian Boyle, a shorebird researcher based in Broome who also works as a birding guide in Antarctica.
#22 The Grey Ghost: Jonny Schoenjahn
In this episode we speak to researcher Jonny Schoenjahn about his 20 years studying one of the world's rarest birds of prey, the Grey Falcon.
#21 Christmas Island and Black Rats: Rosie Willacy
In this episode we chat to PhD researcher Rosie Willacy about her work looking at some of the impacts that rats are having on bird populations on Chri...
#20 Black Swans and their sleep: Anne Aulsebrook
In this episode we speak to Anne Aulsebrook about her PhD research into the effect urban lighting has on the sleep patterns of Black Swans.
#19 Georgina Barbour: Birding around Darwin
In today's episode we chat to Darwin local Georgina Barbour about her birding around the top end of the Northern Territory.
I also give a...
#18 An Australian Birding Year: R Bruce Richardson
In this episode we chat to Bruce Richardson about his newly released book 'An Australian Birding Year'.
The links promised at the end of...
#17 Kingfisher Park: Lindsay Fisher
In this episode we chat to Lindsay Fisher who, along with her husband Keith, owned Kingfisher Park near Julatten for 10 years.
#16 Birding in the USA: Nate Swick
In this episode, the first of our international conversations, we chat to Nate Swick the host for the ABA's podcast about birding in the USA.
#15 Eaglehawk Neck: Paul Brooks
In this episode we chat with Paul Brooks who organises and runs pelagic trips out of Eaglehawk Neck in Tasmania.
#14 500 by 15: Miles Ramm
In this episode we chat to Miles Ramm, one of Australia's up-and-coming young birders whose goal is to hit 500 Australian species by the time he turns...
#13 Australian Bird Names: Ian Fraser
In this episode we chat to Ian Fraser about a book that he has co-authored 'Australian Bird Names: Origins and Meanings'.
#12 O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat part 2: Matt Kelly
In this episode we chat to Matt Kelly, a guide at O'Reilly's Rainforest Retreat about his work and the birds in and around Lamington National Park.