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Birds of a Feather Talk Together68: The Rusty Blackbird - Dramatic population decline, also a question on 'The Big Year'This week we discuss the Rusty Blackbird. Rusty Blackbird is one of North America’s most rapidly declining species. The population has dropped between 85-99 percent over the past forty years, and Amanda and RJ saw one a few weeks ago so we decided to talk about them. Join John Bates, Shannon Hackett, RJ Pole, and Amanda Marquart for Birds of a Feather Talk Together. We also answer a mailbag question on The Big Year (the movie with Owen Wilson, Steve Martin, and Jack Black, and also the book by Mark Obmascik.)Please send us you...
2024-12-0226 min
The American Birding Podcast08-40: Sandy Komito, In His Own WordsLast month saw the passage of Sandy Komito, perhaps the ultimate Big Year birder. Not only did he set records twice, but his second attempt, along with Al Levantin and Greg Miller, was the subject of Mark Obmascik's book, The Big Year. That book because a movie of the same name, where an exagerated version of Komito was played by Owen Wilson. While a great deal of artistic license was taken in the underhanded behavior of Wilson's character, the drive, passion, and charisma was recognized by those who befriended Sandy over the years. In light of his passage, we br...
2024-10-0337 min
The Big Year PodcastEpisode 11: Kiah Jasper’s Record Breaking Ontario Big Year.And a hearty welcome to episode 11 of the Big Year Podcast. I'm Robert. Baumander, and I'm your guide to the life of the big year birding experience. Late in the year 2011, which seems like a lifetime ago, I saw a little movie called, not surprisingly, The Big Year.
One of my favorite actors, Steve Martin, was starring in it. I was also a fan of Jack Black and remembered him from way back when I saw High Fidelity. And who doesn't love Owen Wilson? So I told Sue that I'd like to see it and from the pre...
2023-10-0640 minThe Big Year PodcastEpisode 11: Kiah Jasper’s Record Breaking Ontario Big Year.And a hearty welcome to episode 11 of the Big Year Podcast. I'm Robert. Baumander, and I'm your guide to the life of the big year birding experience. Late in the year 2011, which seems like a lifetime ago, I saw a little movie called, not surprisingly, The Big Year.
One of my favorite actors, Steve Martin, was starring in it. I was also a fan of Jack Black and remembered him from way back when I saw High Fidelity. And who doesn't love Owen Wilson? So I told Sue that I'd like to see it and from the pre...
2023-10-0640 min
The First TimeKate and Katherine Catch up + Featured Book THE DISORGANISATION OF CELIA STONE by Emma YoungKate and Katherine discuss how The Hummingbird Book tour came together and give tips for what to do/think about if you're an author wanting to do the same. They talk about the books they've reading and the podcast Kate's obsessed with (hint: it involves someone shitting* on the floor of a wedding)
*Their word, not ours
This episode the Featured Book is brought to you be Fremantle Press and we’re very, very excited to be talking to Emma Young about her novel, The Disorganisation of Celia Stone.
After five years in bookselling, Em...
2023-09-101h 11
Press Play On Your Day With A Award-Winning Full Audiobook.The (Big) Year That Flew By by Arjan Dwarshuis, Mark Obmascik - forewordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/237176to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The (Big) Year That Flew By
Author: Arjan Dwarshuis, Mark Obmascik - foreword
Narrator: Madison Niederhauser
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
Release date: 05-04-23
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 21 ratings
Genres: Conservation
Publisher's Summary:
When Arjan Dwarshuis first heard of the “Big Year”—the legendary record for birdwatching—he was twenty years old, it was midnight, and he was sitting on the roof of a truck in the Andean Mountains. In that moment he promised himself that, someday, somehow, he would become a world-record-holding birder. Ten years later, he embar...
2023-05-049h 56
We Are Not SavedThe 8 Books I Finished in June Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by: Steven E. Koonin Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by: Peter Godfrey-Smith The Start 1904-30 by: William L. Shirer The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by: Obmascik, Mark Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by: Robert K. Massie Tiamat's Wrath by: James S. A. Corey What I Saw in America by: G. K. Chesterton Job: A New Translation by: Edward L. Greenstein
2021-07-0741 min
Access UtahRevisiting 'The Storm On Our Shores' With Mark Obmascik On Access UtahToday we’ll revisit our conversation from April 2019 with Mark Obmascik.
2021-01-2548 min
2020-11-2830 min
The non-standard14er PodcastHalfway to Heaven Author Mark Obmascik: Episode 23Mark Obmascik, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author who wrote Halfway to Heaven: My White-Knuckled—And Knuckleheaded—Quest for the Rocky Mountain High, joined the Non-Standard 14er Podcast to chat about how, as a forty-four-year-old father of three, he climbed all of Colorado’s 14ers in a single summer. We got to ask Mark all about his inspiration on writing the book and the adventures he had on the mountains and with the people he met climbing. The best advice we got from Mark maybe his instructions on how to eat an elephant…hear all about it in our lates...
2020-06-1257 min
The Birding Life Podcast NetworkEpisode 5 - Mark ObmascikEpisode 5 of The Birding Life Podcast with special guest Mark Obmascik author of 'The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession'
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2020-05-131h 01
Speaking of WritersMark Obmascik-The Storm on Our Shores One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War IIThe heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive story of two World War II soldiers—a Japanese surgeon and an American sergeant—during a brutal Alaskan battle in which the sergeant discovers the medic's revelatory and fascinating diary that changed our war-torn society’s perceptions of Japan.
May 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The Forgotten Battle” by World War II veterans—was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Both American and Japanese forces were tirelessly fighting in a yearlong campaign, and both sides...
2019-05-0414 min
The WW2 PodcastStorm On Our Shores: The Battle for AttuOn the 6th of June 1942 Japanese troops invaded the island of Attu which is part of Alaska, it was the first time since 1812 that continental America had been invaded. In this episode we're looking at the US attack to recapture the island, the fighting was bitter in a very hostile environment, and the discovery of a diary of a Japanese army surgeon who had been trained before the war in the USA. I'm joined by Mark Obmascik, author of The Storm on our Shoreswhich traces the story of the fighting on Attu, Paul Nobuo Tatsuguchi...
2019-05-0147 min
Jay TalkingThe Storm On Our ShoresAuthor Mark Obmascik digs in the margins of history to tell a lost WWII story. We talk about "The Forgotten Battle" fought between the U.S. and Japan on a remote island in Alaska.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2019-04-2333 minAccess Utah'The Storm On Our Shores' With Mark Obmascik On Thursday's Access UtahMay 1943. The Battle of Attu—called “The Forgotten Battle” by World War II veterans—was raging on the Aleutian island with an Arctic cold, impenetrable fog, and rocketing winds that combined to create some of the worst weather on Earth. Both American and Japanese forces were tirelessly fighting in a yearlong campaign, and both sides would suffer thousands of casualties.
2019-04-1154 min
Embark On Into A Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook During Your Workout.The Storm on Our Shores by Mark ObmascikPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/87794to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Storm on Our Shores
Author: Mark Obmascik
Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
Release date: 04-09-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 196 ratings
Genres: World War II
Publisher's Summary:
The heart-wrenching but ultimately redemptive story of two World War II soldiers - a Japanese surgeon and an American sergeant - during a brutal Alaskan battle in which the sergeant discovers the medic's revelatory and fascinating diary that changed our war-torn society’s perceptions of Japan.
2019-04-099h 02
Get Your Favorite Free Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MilitaryThe Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark ObmascikPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/355532 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II Author: Mark Obmascik Narrator: John Bedford Lloyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 3 minutes Release date: April 9, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Military Publisher's Summary: This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered diary—found during a brutal World War II battle—changed our war-torn society’s perceptions...
2019-04-0903 min
Podcast Episode Archives - BirdCallsRadio™ | Exploring birdlife around the world™BCR 094: Greg Miller
Greg Miller has been birding for over 50 years and have birded in all 50 states and much of Canada. And I have always been smitten by the birding bug. I love to get outside and go find birds. Every trip out is an adventure!
In 1998 I zigzagged across the continent–traveling 130,000 miles while trying to hold down a full time job at a nuclear power plant–to try to see as many species of birds in one calendar year as possible. It was an incredible experience passing the 700-species mark—an achievement many birders aspire...
2017-07-1326 min
BirdCallsRadioBCR 027: Marck ObmascikBird Calls radio show featuring an interview with "The Big Year" author Mark Obmascik. He discusses the movie, the book, the characters in the book and his own passion for birdwatching.
2016-06-2446 minPodcast Episode Archives - BirdCallsRadio™ | Exploring birdlife around the world™BirdCallsRadio: Mark ObmascikMark Obmascik ©Merrill Schwerin All Rights Reserved
Here is the archive of the Saturday, Oct. 15, Bird Calls radio show featuring an interview with “The Big Year” author Mark Obmascik. He discusses the movie, the book, the characters in the book and his own passion for birdwatching. Bird Calls Oct 15
The movie debuted Friday and ranked ninth for the weekend for $ brought in by movies, with more than $3.3 million brought in at the box office.
As always, thanks for checking in with Bird Calls Radio. Be sure to check out Bird Calls every...
2011-10-1746 min
Embrace The Breakthrough Full Audiobook Experience!The Big Year by Mark ObmascikPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/70398to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Big Year
Author: Mark Obmascik
Narrator: Del Roy
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
Release date: 02-05-04
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 342 ratings
Genres: Adventure Travel
Publisher's Summary:
2004-02-059h 53
Embark On The Spellbinding Full Audiobook Experience!The Big Year by Mark ObmascikPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/70556to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Big Year
Author: Mark Obmascik
Narrator: Oliver Wyman, Matthew Parker - introduction
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
Release date: 02-05-04
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 41 ratings
Genres: Adventure Travel
Publisher's Summary:
2004-02-056h 15