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What’s Up with the ABA?

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For example, the financial statements have not been updated since 2018, nor have the annual meeting minutes. Even with the auditor’s warning, it appears the ABA ran annual operating deficits in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Experience developing and executing a strategic plan seems essential as well, as are communication skills.

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The return of the Old Man

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Conservation efforts have been sufficiently successful for the bird’s status to be downlisted, in 2018, from Critically Endangered to Endangered. In 2018, there were 1,745 birds living in 92 different zoos and collections. Such an intimate encounter with one of the world’s rarest birds was a memorable experience.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2018)

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With March in our collective rear view mirror, a certain madness subsides. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. April makes much more sense in most parts of the world, at least from a phenological perspective. You have much to look forward to, so make the most of every weekend.

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Global Big Day in Costa Rica

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Those who did so on May 5th automatically became part of the biggest day of collective birding in 2018; Global Big Day ! I love birding tee-shirts, I have a small collection, next year, I’m getting my own for my GBD team. This Plumbeous Kite made it onto the list for the day. Next year will be even better.

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Quintas das Arcas: Bicudo Vinho Verde (2017)

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I haven’t yet been birding in Europe but whenever I occasionally skim a field guide about the birds on the other side of the Atlantic, I’m always encouraged to find that I’m already familiar with many species found over there, even though most of my birding experience has been limited to eastern North America.

2017 119
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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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She was in Guildford visiting her dear friend Roger Fry, and her quote comes from the January 11th 2018 Diary entry, a brief one commenting on the passing of the Suffrage Bill by the House of Lords. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. Only–Virginia Woolf was not in Surrey on December 14th, 1918.

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When Birds Are Near: Dispatches From Contemporary Writers

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She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.