10-10: Bird Collections, From the Inside, with Nick Mason

The American Birding Podcast

The state of Louisiana hosts one of the world's largest repositories of ornithological knowledge, the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural History. With nearly 200,000 bird specimens, including important collections from the tropical Americas, this institution informs a lot of what we know about bird taxonomy in this hemisphere. Dr Nick Mason is the curator of that collection, and he joins us to talk about the fascinating work done at this place and what museums are doing to make sure bird science stays on a sound footing into the future.

Also, the ABA's live What's This Bird program is breaking ground in online phenology... sort of.

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2026-03-12 47 min

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