Holiday Birding

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12/26/2008

Dec. 26, 2008

Holiday Birding

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For the 109th year, volunteer birders are braving the winter weather around the country. Data collected during Audubon's annual Christmas Bird Count helps researchers monitor bird behavior and bird conservation. Join Ira Flatow in this segment of Science Friday for an update on Audubon's annual Christmas Bird Count with count director Geoff LeBaron and John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. We'll be taking calls and questions if you've spotted something exciting or have a birding tale to share. Plus, shade-grown coffee is also known as "bird friendly coffee." But new research in the journal Current Biology suggests that shade grown plantations may give a boost to native forest trees too. We'll find out why.

Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer

Guests

Geoff LeBaron
Christmas Bird Count Director

National Audubon Society

Williamsburg, Massachusetts
John Fitzpatrick
Director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Ithaca, New York

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