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

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in total revenue, but from 2014-2020, it averaged about $1.3M This resulted in a further deterioration in the ABA’s financial position, with net assets falling from -$57,000 in 2012 to -$249,000 in 2019. Indeed, in 2019 , the ABA took a $30,000 loan from an interested party to meet its cash flow needs. in total revenue.

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Gang-gang Cockatoos-a Christmas wish!

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Whilst observing the Southern Emu-wrens a White-fronted Chat flew into view and landed on some raised vegetation! Two new birds for 2019 just like that! All the best to you and your family for good health and good birding in 2020! We drove down the windy road to the Walkerville North car-park to take a walk along the beach.

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Birds of Bolivia: Field Guide–A Book Review

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One of these days, Jeopardy will feature a category called “Field Guides” and the first clue will be: “This landlocked South American country finally got its own bird field guide in 2016, but it wasn’t available in the United State until 2019.”

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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From Hiro, we learn how Northern Pygmy Owls are “rule breakers,” not incubating eggs till all are hatched and then raising owlets that mature at the same rate even though the eggs were laid asynchronously (as most owl eggs are). Jennifer Ackerman is one of my favorite bird authors.

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“One for the crow”: Dancing Crow Vineyards Zinfandel (2017)

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Sierra Nevada Brewing Company of Chico, California began its Resilience Beer Project earlier this year to raise funds for relief efforts for the devastating bushfires that ravaged Australia in late 2019 to 2020. Birds and Booze News.

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The Secrets of my Success

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And I found this one because he was singing his heart out quite persistently, which certainly suggests a bird that wants to settle down and raise a family. 2020 yielded a single sighting; 2019, two; 2018, four. These images may not be a big deal to many of our readers. But they kind of are, down here.

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