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Once Upon a Checklist

Jer Thorp

Writer and National Geographic Explorer Jer Thorp takes listeners on fact-filled, far-flung journeys to flush out the messy human stories behind some of birding's tidy checklists.

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Episode 3: The Disclaimer Episode

I’ve done a lot of things to find birds.

For starters, I’ve gotten up really early in the morning. Way before sunrise, at times of the day which up until then had seemed theoretical.

I’ve gone to some strange places, too. To a resea...

3 years ago
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Episode 2: This Episode Contains Multitudes

On the first episode of Once Upon a Checklist we heard about the intimate experience of spending time with a single bird. In our case - in Don Roberson’s case - it was one of the last Guam Flycatchers alive on earth. It was a sad story.

Th...

4 years ago
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OUAC Print #1: Guam's Lost Endemics

Did you know that Once Upon a Checklist is a podcast, and a print series?

Along with each episode I’m going to be making a unique piece of artwork that will sit alongside the stories that I discovered while exploring each month’s checklist...

4 years ago
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Episode 1 Extras: Things Attached with Paperclips

If Once Upon a Checklist were a thing printed on paper, there’d be all kinds of notes written in the margins. There’d be photos and drawings and the occasional feather paper-clipped on. You’d have to move it from the bookshelf to your desk...

4 years ago

Episode 1: The Saddest Checklist In The World

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 end...

4 years ago
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    Artist, writer, educator, birder & nudibranch enthusiast. Adjunct professor at ITP. He/Him. Author of Living in Data, out now from MCDxFSG.

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