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Birding Shanghai in October 2023

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The Yellow-bellied Tit suffers a bit less from such jokes. Recently, it has become fashionable among Siberian Rubythroats to go for a slightly more subdued throat color (no source as I just made this bit of information up). Of course, the female is even more subdued-looking.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” Even more strangely, the U.S. And yes, similar to the long novels of Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, the lengthy title of the paper comes from a Russian scientist.

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What’s Up with the ABA Now? (June 2023)

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has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net asset deficiency.” As I indicated in 2022 , the ABA has many important strengths, but it still appears to be finding its place in the birding community of the 2020s, unsure of its position in a world with eBird and an abundance (or overabundance) of birding information.

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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.”. As I wrote in 2019 , the informational shortages that prompted the creation of the ABA no longer exist. If anything, birders confront too much information rather than not enough.

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

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The photographic quality ranges from very good to exceptional, and though the point of photographs in a book like this is to communicate information, I think the excellence of some of Loughlin’s photography suffers from the number of images packed into the book. A little editing down would have enhanced both parts of the book.

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Bird Litigation: “Standing” and the California Gnatcatcher

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” CESAR conceded that it had no formal members, but asserted that it did have “informal members” who join a mailing list through the CESAR website. CESAR had alleged that Dr. Zink would suffer professional and reputational injuries because FWS rejected his research, but the court found that inadequate.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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Other useful information in the Wikipedia article includes the factoid that it shows very rapid ingestion rates, taking on average 6 seconds for the prey to reach the stomach after capture (motto of this blog: We read Wikipedia for you so you do not have to). Then, there are raptors. of its hunts are successful.

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