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Nate Swick

@n8swick.bsky.social

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Birds, beers, basketball, soccer. Into birding before it was cool. Digital Comms, ABA. American Birding Podcast host. Author of bird books. Posts mine. he/him/royal “we”

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Martha 🏳️‍⚧️ @marthaharbison.bsky.social · 2d

If you require a distraction from The Horrors, you could listen to @captaintimh.bsky.social @n8swick.bsky.social and I deliver the hottest takes in birding, including my plan to weaponize swans. www.aba.org/09-41-take-i...

09-41: Take It or Leave It: Trumpeter Swans, Probability, and the Internet of Birding - American Birding Association

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 4d

I got the Collins Guide 2nd ed, the Susan Myers Bird Names book that I only have in a .pdf, and three guides to Caribbean birds that more or less give me complete bird coverage of the western hemisphere.

Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 4d

I just bought $160 worth of nature books for $60 including shipping.

I didn't need them. But I got them anyway.

The new edition of the Collins guide to Europe is in here, by the way.

Doug Hitchcox @dhitchcox.bsky.social · 4d

Annual reminder of the best sale in bird books! Not many new titles since last year but there’s a few I’m excited to finally get.

press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 5d

Organically, I swear!

Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 5d

Not to spoil this week's Take it or Leave it episode of the American Birding Podcast, but we manage references to The Simpsons, Futurama, Arrested Development, AND Back to the Future in there.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 5d

Atlantic Puffin, Tufted Puffin, Horned Puffin.

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 5d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 5d

I referee a lot of High School soccer games and this has always been very common, especially on narrow fields. Every team always seems to have one kid who can bomb it. I'm surprised it took so long for the pros to catch on.

Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 18d

Oof

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 18d

My back hurts just thinking about how long those things are.

Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 18d

I think they like to film these things in British Columbia, so maybe that's the explanation.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 18d

I am generally optimistic because of the way birding is presented in the source book, but the absolutely spotless outdoor clothes and the bizarro army surplus style binoculars are concerning.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 19d

Can some internet wizard recreate this with RB Nut beeps?

Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 19d

Soundtrack.

youtu.be/CS76zsa2h0Y?...

Eruption - Van Halen

Eruption - Van Halen Well, here we are. Again. I couldn't resist. If you liked this video, consider subscribing to support me. https://linktr.ee/joshuajonesguitar

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 19d

A shame to take the setting away from southern Arizona, but Hallmark probably tries to make these things relatively inexpensively.

Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 19d

So against my better judgment I'll probably watch this. I worry, though.

www.hallmarkchannel.com/adventures-i...

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 26d

Just talked to Owen this morning for a future podcast ep. The film is a lot of fun and his bird videography is honestly spectacular.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 26d

Yeah, the murder of Emmett Till is important not just because of the murder, but the fact that his murderers were *acquitted*.

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Nate Swick @n8swick.bsky.social · 29d

He sent his own daughter to an Ivy League school.