What Birds Are Saying About You with Dan Gardoqui — WildFed Podcast #054

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In this episode:

Dan Gardoqui | Nature-Based Mentor & Bird Language Expert

Podcast discussion:

  • Introducing Dan

  • Talking with birds — a gateway to nature connection

  • How talking with birds can help with hunting

  • The Five Voices of the Birds

  • What can the bobcat teach you?

  • How your speed affects wildlife behavior

  • Our ancestral hardwiring for relationship with nature

  • Mindfulness in hunting

  • Types of people who take Dan's classes

  • The origins of tracking

  • Getting started in tracking

  • How learning to track can make you a better hunter

  • Differing opinions — hikers vs hunters

  • How birds reveal nature's secrets

  • How to work with Dan

  • Where the tracks are leading


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Meet Dan Gardoqui

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Founder & Principal at Lead with Nature

Dan Gardoqui has been called a mimic thrush, a skilled mentor, and a pioneer in the field of bird language. Dan has been studying naturalist skills, wildlife tracking, bird language and mentoring since 1990.

In 1999 Dan co-founded White Pine Programs – a successful, year-round nature connection nonprofit. In 2002, he served as a bird language consultant on a permanent exhibit for the Boston Museum of Science entitled “A Bird’s World.” Since, he has led many workshops, classes, and intensives on the science and art of bird language.

Most recently, Dan served as science and audio editor for What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World. Dan is a registered Maine Guide, Wilderness First

Responder, Certified Wildlife Tracker, and hunter. He lives in Southern Maine with his wife and sons.

Website | Instagram @leadwithnature | Youtube

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