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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of May 2019?

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This year’s theme is “ Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution! ” The post Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of May 2019? You probably spent all of last weekend engaged in an extended Global Big Day , whether you realized that fact or not. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday.

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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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The short answer is that wilderness areas are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System and they are protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964. Simply put, wilderness areas are the most protected public lands in America. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act in 2019. The longer answer is below. Dingell Jr.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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Moreover, the most recent tax form I have been able to locate, from 2019 , seems indicate that the net assets deficit has actually increased , not decreased. Even with the auditor’s warning, it appears the ABA ran annual operating deficits in 2017, 2018, and 2019. The recent key financial metrics are below ( source ).

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Seeking the Bahama Nuthatch

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Nobody has seen any ever since after Category 5 Hurricane Dorian buffeted the low-lying islands with 200-mph winds for two days in September 2019. A series of devastating hurricanes in 2016, 2017 and 2019 may have sounded its death knell. There’s just one problem. Brown-headed Nuthatch of the southeastern United States.

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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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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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The group and its members typically allege that they observe birds or run birding companies or have a mission to protect and preserve birds, so the standing requirement is satisfied. United States DOI , 2019 U.S. LEXIS 110982, 2019 WL 2870131 (D.D.C. Case citation: Ctr. Accuracy & Reliability v.

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Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post!

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On Boxing Day, when we found the first Gang-gang Cockatoos for our 2019 bird list, we encountered an Echidna. Echidna use their spines as defence and roll up as tight as they can to protect themselves. It was not concerned about us, because we kept our distance and let it wander into the bush.

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