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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. In particular, it appears that expenses were increased in response to what turned out to be a one-year revenue spike in 2007.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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In 2007 I was working in a university building that was just begging for bird feeders. FLAP is the Fatal Light Awareness Program, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and this is how they raise awareness. The photographs are actually in color in my Kindle edition but reproduced in black-and-white on the book’s Amazon page.

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From Today's New York Times

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Well-planned vegan diets are healthful for pregnant mothers and their infants, as well as for older children, according to a large body of scientific research. Amy Joy Lanou Washington, May 21, 2007 The writer is senior nutrition scientist, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. I’ve raised a vegan child since conception.

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Meat, Cancer, and the Cumulative Case for Ethical Vegetarianism

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It is not in dispute that, in modern factory farms, animals are raised in massively overcrowded, unnatural warehouses. For more detailed descriptions of the conditions in which farm animals are raised, see here , here , and here. Premise (4) is widely acknowledged. Running time: 12 Minutes. Trivial or insignificant reasons won’t do.

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of the East: A Field Guide Review

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The Natural History section points out that Red-tailed Pennants hold their wings flat or slightly lowered, while the skimmers tend to raise their wings. The Identification section points out the differences: the skimmers are larger and their thoraxes are purple. I am going with the Red-tailed Pennant identification for now.

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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They are large passerines and research has shown them to be an ancient basal offshoot from the passerine tree (at approximately the same time as rockjumpers, were even placed in the same family until quite recently). million hectares in 2007. Figures I could obtain indicate that Ghana’s forests have reduced alarmingly from 8.2

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Penguins: The Ultimate Guide — A Review by a Penguin Groupie

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Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins. Raised in the Galapagos, she’s been exposed to penguins her whole life. The first section, Life Between Two Worlds by Tui De Roy is the heart of the book.

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