{"podcast":{"title":"The American Birding Podcast","slug":"the-american-birding-podcast-221392","podcast_index_feed_id":221392,"rss_url":"https://birding.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://birding.libsyn.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/2/a/f/32af6b17c340bab427a2322813b393ee/ABP_by_ABA_1400x1400-72dpi-100.jpg","author":"naswick","episode_count":396,"summary":"The American Birding Podcast brings together staff and friends of the American Birding Association as we talk about birds, birding, travel and conservation in North America and beyond. Join host Nate Swick every Thursday for news and happenings, recent rarities, guests from around the birding world, and features of interest to every birder.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-american-birding-podcast-221392"},"episode":{"title":"09-49: Birding Book Club - Best Books of 2025","slug":"09-49-birding-book-club-best-books-of-2025","published_at":"2025-12-04T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-american-birding-podcast-221392/09-49-birding-book-club-best-books-of-2025","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-american-birding-podcast-221392","url":"https://birding.libsyn.com/09-49-birding-book-club-best-books-of-2025","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/birding/ABP_2025_S9-E49_books.mp3?dest-id=454200","summary":"The Birding Book Club is back again to do our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2025. There's no better time to give the gift of bird books to the birder in your life. And why not something for yourself while you're at it? Nate Swick is joined by 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman and Birding magazine media and book review editor Rebecca Minardi to talk about what we loved this very unique year of birds in books. Links to all of our choices at the ABA website . Subscribe to the podcast at Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or wherever you get your podcasts and please leave a rating or a review if you are so inclined! We appreciate it!","meta_description":"The Birding Book Club is back again to do our annual Best Bird Books of the Year episode for 2025. There's no better time to give the gift of bird books t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4569,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-american-birding-podcast-221392/episodes/09-49-birding-book-club-best-books-of-2025/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-american-birding-podcast-221392/09-49-birding-book-club-best-books-of-2025.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}