Join Cian on a bright cold Autumn morning for a cup of green tea and a deep-dive into the history of America’s most mysterious bird. Special Guest: Mr Brent Burton, naturalist & science educator.

-the life of American birding hero John James Audubon

-his ‘sighting’ of the elusive and massive Washington Sea Eagle

-new evidence on Audubon’s personal situation when he made the claim

-did Audubon invent the bird to appeal to financial backers?

-other reported sightings of the bird

SOURCES:

Wide Atlantic Weird STORE!

https://teespring.com/stores/my-store-10108989

Brent on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/allthingsnaturalist/

Audubon’s Bird Of Washington, Matthew R Halley, Bulletin Of The British Ornithologist’s Club, June 2020

https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-british-ornithologists-club/volume-140/issue-2/bboc.v140i2.2020.a3/Audubons-Bird-of-Washington–unravelling-the-fraud-that-launched/10.25226/bboc.v140i2.2020.a3.full

Interview with Matthew R Halley, American Birding Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/jo/podcast/04-20-j-j-audubon-bird-washington-fraud-matthew-halley/id1186824033?i=1000485170153

Karl Shuker On The Washington Sea Eagle

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2012/08/washingtons-eagle-and-other-giant.html

Substantiating Washington’s Sea Eagle, Scott Maruna

https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/V29.3.OhioCardinal_Spring2006_p140-150_Substantiating%20Audubons%20Washington%20Eagle.pdf