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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of 2020)

10,000 Birds

Rather than belabor the obvious, I’ll just point out that the global pandemic may have spawned a new wave of birders, but collectively we’ve seen far fewer species of birds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review

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Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text., I also think there are chapters where the photographs crowd out the text.

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What’s Up with the ABA?

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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.”. The next executive director should have experience successfully managing a non-profit organization and creating and implementing budgets.

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Paws UP for Union Township Animal Shelter

4 The Love Of Animals

Across the country, Rock & Rawhide (R&R) will produce a series of music, art and culinary events designed to bring together various communities to collectively make donations for animals at kill shelters. In the past nine months, R&R has collected 4,807 items weighing 2,360.5 pounds with a value of $42,923.50…and

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The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

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Got to finish browsing for the fawns and collecting chiggers,” wrote Becky, from an island off North Carolina. They’d also have to pay for every aspect of care the injured bird requires, as well as the emotional suffering of the wildlife rehabilitator!”. “I don’t want to be too hasty in my response,” wrote Gay in Virginia.

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Madagascar’s Lost and Found

10,000 Birds

Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). However the rewards are certainly worthwhile and it’s a special experience to know that you are one of a handful of birders to have had the privilege of seeing this bird alive!

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Is Charles with Lars Axl Fokker?

Animal Person

In all of the lovely messages we've been getting, I've noticed two trends: 1) Death is a communal experience as well as an individual one. Some speak of a collective consciousness, and others speak of reincarnation. Charles' untimely death brings to mind everyone's past pain and joy.