Naturally Adventurous

Ken and Charley chat about Ken's recent time in west Java, the heartland of massive Indonesia, and home to around 150 million people. It was a short but adventurous few days!

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Charley tells Ken about his recent trip to PNG

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Charley takes us on a walk around Benjakiti Park in Bangkok.

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Ken interviews Wayne Klockner, Executive Director of the American Birding Association.

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Charley tells Ken about his recent trip to Mongolia.

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Charley gives his Top 5 mammal bird combos from his recent short trip to Hokkaido.

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Ken tells Charley about his recent short visit to Romania. Eastern bloc meets "Small Paris; a cemetary protected from Brown Bear by an electric fence; urban reserves full of shy birds. An eventful few days!

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Charley records a bird walk at the Onnenai visitors centre.

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Ken tells Charley about trying to see one of the world's coolest cats, in Spain after his recent tours there.

Check out this movie of the Little Bustard display: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUbg-wOsvZA

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Charley tells Ken 7 things he found surprising on his recent trip to Taiwan.

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Ken does a field broadcast on a beautiful spring day in Castile and León, central Spain. Can he match Charley's total from his local patch in Chiang Mai, Thailand?!

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Ken chats with global traveller, conservationist, and consultant Noam Shany about the Moluccan Islands, a remote part of the Indonesian archipelago that holds over 100 endemic birds, but is rarely visited, aside from Halmahera.

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Charley gives Ken his Top 5 eco lodges in Asia.

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Today Charley & Ken chat about places they would love to travel to but can't.

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The final installment of our Panama series. Ken tells Charley about his western Panama adventure. How did Ken manage to miss all the brushfinches yet find all the quail-doves?! How was his climb up Panama's highest mountain?

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Podcast listener Jason Lewis shares his epic birding adventures from Central Peru in the second of this 2 parter.

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Is the Darien actually the dangerous borderland that most people make it out to be? Is it crazy to bring young kids on a Darien trek to visit the nest of a Harpy Eagle?! Ken tells Charley about his eastern Panama adventure.

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Podcast listener Jason Lewis shares his epic birding adventures from Central Peru in the first of this 2 parter.

Cloud-Forest Screech-Owl recording courtesy of Ross Gallardy, XC296730. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/296730. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0

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Regular guest Julian Hough tells Charley about his trip to Finland & Norway last year.

Check out Julian's Substack page:

https://birdingontheedge.substack.com/

Check out Julian's Youtube videos from his tours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfApNgJX6w&t=5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyTHHBN9rM

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Charley gives his Top 5 bird sightings from his recent Japan in Winter tour.

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Charley does a field broadcast from his local birding patch in Chiang Mai.

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Ken gives Charley an overview of his recent long trip to Panama.

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Charley chats with Nick Bonomo about independent migration birding in Bulgaria.

check out Nick's blog

https://www.shorebirder.com/

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Charley chats with Richard Pearce about Japanese Giant Salamander conservation.

Check out a YouTube video of Richard and the Salamanders

https://youtu.be/OEWDx2EAJJs?si=6gzbbY3N7AUauw-e

and his NPO website

https://www.sustainabledaisen.org/en/home

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Charley chats with regular guest Andres Vasquez about his recent trip to Argentina.

Chaco Owl recording courtesy of Hans Matheve, XC965889. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/965889. License

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Charley and Ken record another 'live from the field' episode, this time from Ken's short visit to Chiang Mai, Thailand last year.

Spot-throated Babbler recording courtesy of Charley.

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Charley chat with Keith Barnes about seeing the world's bird families.

Ken's photo gallery of 140/150 of the world's bird families: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kbehrens/albums/72177720330473375

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Ken talks with Douglas McMeekin, the founder of Yachana Foundation. Douglas has had a remarkable life, much of it spent in the Amazon, where he founded the Yachana Foundation, which uses for-profit ventures to fund its non-profit work in conservation and among local communities. Want to hear what it was like to travel in the Amazon in the 1960s?! Listen in!

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Charley tells Ken about his latest 2 new bird families.

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Charley and Ken talk about the state of the podcast, after delivering weekly episodes for over five years (!). They chat about the results of the survey from earlier in the year, and wrap up 2025.

Ken's photo gallery of 140/150 of the world's bird families: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kbehrens/albums/72177720330473375

Pallid Scops-Owl recording courtesy of Sven Normant, XC982497. Accessible at https://xeno-canto.org/982497. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0

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Ken tells Charley about the top 6 experiences of his recent trip to the Arabian Peninsula country of Oman.

CORRECTION / CLARIFICATION: Regarding Silverbills, the country of Saudi Arabia also has both Indian and African Silverbills, and of course much of East Africa has two species, though the Gray-headed Silverbill is in a different genus, and is quite unlike the African / Indian.

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Charley talks with one of India's top birders, Harish Thangaraj, about some amazing rediscoveries he has made this year

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Charley tells Ken about his recent trip to the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea.

Golden Masked-Owl recording courtesy of Charley Hesse.

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Ken chats with Charlie Harcourt about the country of Myanmar; it's biological and cultural riches, as well as its troubled history (and present).

Charlie's organization for higher education access: https://www.myanmar-foundation.org

Support for democracy and public assistance in Myanmar: https://www.mutualaidmyanmar.org

Bird tours: https://www.myanmarbirding.com

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Ken tells Charley about the second half of his recent trip around northern Ecuador. It started with a wisdom tooth removal, but was all uphill from there!

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Charley chats with Colin Conroy about birding in Lebanon.

Syrian Serin recording courtesy of Barry Edmonston, XC721507. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/721507. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0.

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Charley and Ken chat about Indonesia, sitting in the Garuda lounge of Jakarta international airport, surrounded by clinking dishes and screaming kids (sorry about the abient noise).

Sumatran Ground-Cuckoo recording courtesy of Daan Drukker, XC964067. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/964067. License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0

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Ken chats with Ryan and Derek Sallmann about their top 5 North American birding destinations, how to start international travel, and more.

These guys run the Badgerland Birding YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPOxZjoHULhsO95SRN4ScPg) and Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-badgerland-birding-podcast/id1722771407).

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Ken tells Charley about the first half of his recent trip around northern Ecuador. It was a sort of avian bioblitz around this incredibly diverse Tropical country!

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Ken and Charley chat about what has happened in Madagascar in recent months: protests, the flight of the president, and the installation of a transitional regime. Is this a classic African coup? Is it dangerous to visit right now? Is this a good or bad thing for the country? All these questions are addressed.