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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

10,000 Birds

Back to Gipsy and toward a distant group of farmers working their fields. For being invited to the Global Bird Watcher’s Conference, I would like to thank the organizers: Government of Gujarat, Gujarat Tourism Corporation and the Forest Department of Gujarat. The conference was organized by excellent J.N. Acknowledgements.

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The Case for Adding the U.S. Territories in the Caribbean to the ABA Area

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For example, the Endangered Species Act and Migratory Bird Treaty Act—America’s most important avian conservation laws—apply in both territories. This makes no sense at all for a group that purports to be the national birding organization for the United States. Both territories are also part of the U.S. But progress is slow.

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Best Bird of the Year 2013

10,000 Birds

I was attending the 3rd Global Bird-watching Conference in Gujarat and suddenly surrounded not just be species that were completely new, but entire families of birds. Second, I was in India, which, had you told me even one month prior that I’d be going to India, I would have said you were crazy.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. And I dipped a toe into academic ornithology, reading a journal article and (virtually) attending a conference. The answer sometimes result in a post.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

For example, in reading about the re-introduction of the California Condor into the Pacific Northwest, the press releases referred to a “non-essential experimental” group of condors. And I dipped a toe into academic ornithology, reading a journal article and (virtually) attending a conference. The answer sometimes result in a post.