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The top-5 birds of 2018

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My first criterion was that I observed it only once during the year 2018. I counted them very roughly, but I do have a lot of experience estimating flocks. The post The top-5 birds of 2018 appeared first on 10,000 Birds. What qualifies a bird to be included in the top-5? Lesser White-fronted Goose by Iggy/Wikimedia Commons.

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The return of the Old Man

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Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World states that “disturbance by local people, tourists, and egg and zoo collectors has similarly reduced the colonies, and more protection is vital”. Conservation efforts have been sufficiently successful for the bird’s status to be downlisted, in 2018, from Critically Endangered to Endangered.

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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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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The book doesn’t always succeed in its goals.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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And unlike the protection of cormorants, which was perceived as a problem, protection of pelicans was welcomed by the local communities. Asian water buffaloes were brought to Greece by Ottoman Turks centuries ago and by now, they have developed into a separate race, the Greek buffalo, which is protected as an old domestic breed.

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The 701 Long-eared Owl of Kikinda

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You may have read about them in the Wall Street Journal , the BBC Wildlife Magazine , or perhaps watched them on BBC, who filmed them here twice, for the Planet Earth II in 2015 and for the One Planet in 2018. Rightfully, this town centre doubles as a nature reserve – an officially protected owl habitat.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

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A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. Hallé, ‘Atlas Poetic Botanic’, edition MIT Press, 2018). I eventually felt at ease when I found my binoculars in my backpack; I always appreciate watching birds in any new area that I visit.

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