Weekend Birder is back for Season 3! Here’s a sneak peak of what's coming up.

If you like birds, you've come to the right place. Weekend Birder celebrates the stories and smarts of everyday people and their unique connections to birds. Independently produced and featuring short engaging episodes, the podcast equips listeners with the knowledge and skills they need to identify birds, understand their behaviours, and enjoy spending time outside.

Kirsty Costa, a bird lover and educator, created Weekend Birder podcast in 2022 to help people discover the benefits of birdwatching. Inspired by her own love of nature, Kirsty aims to make birding accessible and enjoyable for everyone.

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Hear birdwatching stories from around Australia. This episode is about the joys of connecting with neighbourhood birds and the challenge of doing a Local Big Year.

Local Big Year is a challenge to identify as many birds species as possible within a local geographical area in one year. Many thanks to the following Local Big Year community members for contributing to this episode - Coreena Veith, Jeremy Ringma, Jo Bangles, Kate Crock, Kylie Savidge, Marian Blake and Sophie Walker.

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Links:

* Local Big Year website - weekendbirder.com/local-big-year

* Coreena’s website - www.shutterbugwalkabouts.com.au

* Coreena on Instagram - @in.naturephotography

* Jeremy on Instagram - @jeremy_ringma

* Kate's website - packupandflyaway.com

* Kate on Instagram - @packupandflyaway

* Kylie on Instagram - @kylie_savidge_psychic

* Liz on Instagram - @yarrapenguin

* Marian on Instagram - @mariankp

* Sophie on Instagram - @sophiealice08

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Learn how to record bird song and use technology to identify them. This episode is about bird call ID apps, sound recording equipment and research into how baby birds learn while they are in their egg.

Dr Vicky Austin is interested in bird behaviour and how birds interact with each other and their environment. She is particularly fascinated by the vocalisations of female birds. Vicky’s PhD at Western Sydney University focused on the vocalisations of female Superb Lyrebirds (such as mimicry) and how females use these sounds to protect themselves and their chicks. Vicky reckons that vocalisations of female birds are just as spectacular as males and she’s here to share what she knows.

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Links:

* Vicky on Twitter - @avianbehaviour

* Vicky on Instagram - @avianbehaviour

* Vicky at the Animal Ecology Lab - animalecologylab.org/victoria-austin.html

* Flinders University - flinders.edu.au/college-science-engineering/who-we-are/ecology-evolution-environment

* Lyrebird Lab - lyrebirdlab.org

* Superb Lyrebird recording by Nick Talbot (XC340211) - xeno-canto.org

* Superb Fairywren recording by Marc Anderson, licenced from wildambience.com

Sound recording apps:

* Merlin Bird ID app – merlin.allaboutbirds.org

* BirdNet app - birdnet.cornell.edu

* xeno-canto (bird sound recordings) - https://xeno-canto.org

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