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Once Upon a Checklist

Jer Thorp

Released: 2022-08-29

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Released: 2022-08-29

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Episode 1: The Saddest Checklist In The World

Time: 34:07

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On August 29th 1978, Don Roberson drove in a rental car up to a scrubby limestone forest on the North end of Guam. Using a hand-made guidebook he’d drawn himself with coloured pencils, Don managed to find and identify two of Guam’s rare endemic birds: The Guam Rail and the Guam Flycatcher.

He didn’t know it at the time, but both of those birds would go extinct in the next five years.

In this episode, I talk to Don about that day in Guam, to find out what it was like to catch a last glimpse of a bird that no longer exists.

Episode ID: 1000577608345

GUID: substack:post:70607065

Release Date: 29/08/2022, 00:28:08

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Writer and National Geographic Explorer Jer Thorp takes listeners on fact-filled, far-flung journeys to flush out the human stories behind some of birding's most unusual checklists. Absorbing for birders and non-birders alike, Once Upon a Checklist will change the way you think about birds and the people who love (and count) them.

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