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

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This is the sort of issue that the ABA should have a template for comments that could be adapted for a specific site. As to the second, advocacy is already done on an ad hoc basis and creating templates for letters and comments on proposed regulations would be straight-forward. Until now, it has only been open for hunters.

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“Getting Closer” — a book review

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His professed goal is to use the template of a photography book to communicate his own love and understanding of the natural world and to inspire others likewise.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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These bird songs have two aspects, and I oversimplify but not excessively so: A genetically inherited template, usually specific to the song-producing sex, and a learned song that consists of the template shaped by experience as a developing bird hears the adult version of its own song. But the same is true of the song itself.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

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Apparently , they use the presence of their own eggs as a cue for recognizing parasitic eggs – so without the presence of their own eggs as a template they fail to recognize a parasitic egg. If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo.

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Behold the Blue-footed Booby

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One fun way is to make your feet blue like that of this beauteous booby by wearing blue shoes or socks, or by using a special template to create your own Booby feet. How can you show your support for the unique creatures of Galápagos? Happy Blue-footed Booby Day!!

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My Uneventful 3rd Blogiversary

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And this isn't really my area but I'm willing to take it on (because our quoted price was $500 for the template and $249 for hosting, and that sounds like a lot to me, particularly considering we'd be doing all of the content and updates--not them). I'm in the position of having to build a website for a child welfare organization.

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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review

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Books for beginning birders can be divided into four groups: guides to common birds (the regional Stokes Beginner’s Guide to Birds and Bill Thompson III’s The New Birder’s Guide to Birds of North America ), activity books for young people (the recent Birdology by Monica Russo), the popular side-bar-filled “dummies” template (..)

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A Stick! A Bird! A Tree!–Books on Nature for Parents & Kids

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I think each represents a template of a specific way of approaching this subject. Here are three recent titles, one for the parents of very young children, one for primary school children and their parents, and one for residents of a specific geographic area–Los Angeles County.

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The Sibley Guide to Birds, Second Edition: A Review of an Iconic Guide in a New Edition

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You can interpret this major change as Sibley creating his own design template, utilizing placement to create connections and putting more trust in users’ basic knowledge. (National Geographic, the third prominent bird identification guide utilizing drawings uses lines occasionally, but not to the extent of Sibley One.)

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