E38 - Kristi D + Blue Jay

01/15/23 • 57 min

My guest is Kristi Dranginis, the founder of Bird Mentor and an avid bird lover who enjoys sharing her love for birds with others. She has banded terns on Great Gull island and hummingbirds at Mesa Verde National Park. Kristi also presented, and led field trips at, a number of birding festivals.
Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Kristi's Birding Background
19:22 - Bird of the Episode: Blue Jay
35:48 - Bird Mentor
56:52 - Outro

To connect with Kristi and learn more about Bird Mentor, please visit https://birdmentor.com
For pictures of some of the birds discussed on the podcast, please check out @lookingatbirdspodcast on Instagram.

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Kristi's Birding Background
19:22 - Bird of the Episode: Blue Jay
35:48 - Bird Mentor
56:52 - Outro

Previous Episode

E37 - Tom B + Western Screech Owl

My guest is Tom Brown, owner of Focus on Feathers, an organization that coordinated photography-based birding tours in the past, but now focuses on marketing Tom’s photography. He has led birding field trips in Mexico and across the United States. You might have seen some of his photography in various tourism-focused publications and maybe even his weekly column on Ten Thousand Birds, a few years ago.
Tom talks about his background in birding, how he got into photography, his year birding around the world and he also shares about the Western Screech Owl.
Timestamps

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Tom's birding background
06:14 - Focus on Feathers
07:20 - Birding in Mexico
13:00 - Bird of the Episode: Western Screech Owl
23:15 - Western Screech Owl call
23:54 - Tom's year birding around the world
41:44 - Outro

For more about Tom and his photography, please check out: https://www.focusonfeathers.com
For pictures of some of the birds discussed on the podcast, please check out @lookingatbirdspodcast on Instagram.

Next Episode

E39 - Kendall K + Verdin & Mission Garden

My guest is Kendall Kroesen, the Community Outreach Coordinator for Mission Garden. With a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology he participated in a number of archaeological and conservation projects. In the early 2000s, he left social science and joined the Tucson Audubon society, where he created the Urban Bird Habitat Program and was involved with rural habitat restoration. These days you are most likely to find him working with plants or looking at birds.
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:29 - Birds this Morning and Recent Birding
05:31 - Kendall's Birding Background
12:10 - Bird of the Episode: Verdin
22:52 - Verdin's Call
23:18 - More about Mission Garden
28:20 - Upcoming Events at Mission Garden
30:48 - How Kendall got into this Role
34:15 - A Typical Day at the Garden
39:17 - A Little More about Mission Garden
41:53 - OutroCheck out the links below for more on Mission Garden: