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One Year Under El Jefferino

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Here’s hoping his tenure as president is long and fruitful and that the ABA continues with its excellent social media presence, wonderful print publications, and advocacy for birds and birders. One thing that unites those three is that they’re spectacular species I’ve had multiple chances of seeing and so far missed.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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Johnson is not a birder or a naturalist; he was fly fishing to get his mind off the stress of working on the List Project, an advocacy organization he founded to aid Iraqis who had helped the U.S. In some cases, he took all adult males of the species or subspecies held by the museum. Mostly adult males. Frustrated with the U.S.