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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. T]he Association had suffered net losses and has a net deficiency in net assets that raise substantial doubt as its ability to continue as a going concern.”. A quick tour of the ABA website reveals other issues.

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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 (First of July 2018)

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Encountering exotics raises all manner of questions in birders, the toughest of which rarely center on identification. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Following me here? We may know these birds well, but should we love them? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Birding a monastery: Zhaga, Western Sichuan

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My extensive birding experience allows me to be very confident that the bird below is a Rosefinch. The Black-rumped Magpie is one of the four new species that were split from the Eurasian Magpie in 2018. It is indeed rufous-ish. Please consult your own bird guide for more details. Maybe they are not that much into birds?

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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 sat for hours, dreamily watching those rocks raising to the sky, covered by the dense primary vegetation of this subtropical area.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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A paper titled “Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus may adapt well to life in urban areas across its range in Asia” already made the same observation in 2018. The likely explanation is that she may still carry sperm from a previous mating with another male, and he wants to avoid raising chicks he has not fathered ( source ).

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