Once Upon a Checklist is a free podcast. You’ll be able to listen to every episode here, and on any podcast platform that you might already use. I’ll be posting free transcripts of the episodes here as well, along with a generous scattering of interesting things I’ve learned along the way.

So… why subscribe?

If you become a paid subscriber to Once Upon a Checklist (for just $7 per month), you’ll get access to a whole lot more, including photos, full-length interviews, and custom bird-y data visualizations created just for subscribers.

If you become a founding member (for $200) you’ll get a set of signed and numbered bird-tastic data visualization prints, one for each of the first 10 episodes. Sign up to be a founding member before the first episode releases and I’ll also send you a free t-shirt.

Here’s the thing…

Once Upon a Checklist is a strange little project, driven by equal parts curiosity and love. I’m making it because I’m really and truly interested in digging into these stories, and I want to be able to share what I’ve learned with as many people as I can.

Asking you to pay for content makes me exactly as itchy as it probably makes you to be asked. But I’d also (very much) like to pay my rent.

I’m not sure just exactly where we’ll end up, but I do I hope you’ll join me along the way.

-Jer

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