Just had a long working weekend with my coauthor Matt Young, for our new book, The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada which come out soon, September 17th!. We worked on our upcoming talk that we will be giving at a number of places (including being keynote speakers at The Biggest Week in 2025, Harris Center in NH and NH Audubon this fall, Acadia Birding Festival 2025), met with the American Bird Conservancy to hear about all the great work they are doing to save endangered Hawaiian Finches (which are covered in our book), and recorded one of many podcasts we will be doing (Hannah and Erik Go Birding's Bird Nerd Bookclub to be released right before our book comes out, and will also be doing ICW The Urban Birder, and ABA podcast). So excited, and will keep you posted on more of all of this soon! #StokesFinchGuide