It’s that time of year: the <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/christmas-bird-count-common-birds/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">Christmas Bird Count</a>, when birders go out in flocks to record all the birds they see in a single day. The data collected during this annual tradition gets compiled by the National Audubon Society, and helps scientists understand bird population trends across the Americas. If you participate in the bird count, chances are you’ll see a lot of the same birds you’d see any other day of the year—think sparrows, blue jays, blackbirds, cardinals. But that doesn’t make them any less special. So this year we’re turning our binoculars on a few (wrongfully) overlooked <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/christmas-bird-count-common-birds/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">common birds</a>.  Producer Kathleen Davis talks with two of our favorite birders, author and illustrator Rosemary Mosco, and conservation scientist Corina Newsome, to share some surprising facts about birds that don’t often make it to the top of pecking order.Guests:Rosemary Mosco is an author, illustrator, and speaker whose work connects people with the natural world.Corina Newsome is a birder and conservation scientist at the National Wildlife Federation, based in Atlanta, Georgia.Transcripts for each episode are available within 1-3 days at <a href="https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/christmas-bird-count-common-birds/?utm_source=wnyc&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=scifri" target="_blank">sciencefriday.com.</a> 
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