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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part II (Some Suggestions)

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Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc. Avian science and conservation are well covered by large and well-financed national non-profits. Secondly, the ABA should increase and formalize its advocacy for birders.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really?

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Crotty is a birder and lawyer living in Portland, Oregon. But driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities.

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Collaborative List – August 2017

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Plumed Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna eytoni. White-faced Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna viduata. Black-bellied Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna autumnalis. West Indian Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arborea. West Indian Whistling-Duck – Dendrocygna arborea. Wood Duck – Aix sponsa.

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