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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part III (Finances)

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Additionally, I was curious how the ABA arrived at its precarious financial position, so I did some historical research and decided to share the results. From 2005-2007, the ABA had a relatively healthy balance sheet, with net assets of approximately $1.0M. Note that I only have access to public documents, and I am not accountant.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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Peterson Guide to Bird Identification—In 12 Steps: A Book Review

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In the four-part ABA Blog series on subspecies , published in 2012, he argued we know too little about subspecies to use the term, and that birders should “show the characters of humility” and adapt alternative ways of articulating geographic differences. .” 16, below).”

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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For example, on Black-crowned Night-Heron, a steadily declining breeding species, they say, “…even though they were recorded in 5 block in the Bronx during NYSBBA II in 2000-2005, we believe most did not involve breeding birds” (p. They wrote books and published research. Which is true.

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Birds of Prey of the East & Birds of Prey of the West: Review of Two Field Guides

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There is a major difference: the Raptors guides are photographic and the Birds of Prey guides are illustrated with Wheeler’s paintings, over 1,000 images in each guide, organized with logical precision for reference, research, and comparison, with a self-evident side benefit–the portrayal of the beauty of raptors.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. of New Mexico Press, 2005). University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. A breeding bird atlas is a special kind of book. Dimensions: 12.3

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Costa Rica: A Field Guide–A Book Review

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Consider that Paulson’s Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East (2012) covers 336 odonate species and think about the difference in geographic size and you get a sense of the concentrated diversity in Costa Rica (though the authors note that the rate of diversity is still less than the increase in diversity for butterflies and orchids).