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First Phoebe of 2014

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2012 – 15 March. 2008 – 21 March. Here are my arrival dates for my first Eastern Phoebes of the year for the last nine years: 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2009 – 15 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March.

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First Phoebe of 2015

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2012 – 15 March. 2008 – 21 March. If you are interested, here are the dates of my first phoebe from each of the last ten years. 2015 – 28 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2009 – 15 March. 2007 – 26 March. 2006 – 03 March. Great, I’m your first phoebe of 2015.

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What Birds Will Get Me To 300 In Queens?

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Black Vulture - Despite a marked increase in Turkey Vulture sightings – nine since March of 2011 when I had my first in Queens - Black Vultures remain stubbornly absent from the borough (only two sightings reported to eBird in Queens since 2008). The S nowy Owls at Breezy Point also ignited a firestorm on the state listserv.

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Say Hello to the Sira Barbet

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A new species of barbet was discovered in 2008 in Peru by a team of ornithologists that were recent graduates of Cornell University. The new species is described in the July 2012 issue of The Auk. The Sira Barbet has as its scientific name Capito fitzpatricki , in honor of the director of the Lab of Ornithogy, Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick.

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Counting Feral Muscovy Ducks in Florida

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And there it sat until 2012 when the Florida Ornithological Society’s Records Committee reviewed the status of several introduced species in 2012.** Though in 2008 the ABA changed Muscovy Ducks to “Code 2″ which was a reflection of the fact that the feral birds in Florida are countable.

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part III (Finances)

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The revenue-expenses divergence resulted in several years of negative net income, from 2008 to 2010. The 2011 , 2012 , and 2013 Financial Statements continued to note the increasing deficiencies and continued to state that the ABA had essentially the same plan of action as listed in the 2010 statement.

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First Phoebe of 2017

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2012 – 15 March. 2008 – 21 March. Below are my first dates for the last ten years if you are really interested in such things…. 2017 – 12 March. 2016 – 18 March. 2015 – 28 March. 2014 – 29 March. 2013 – 24 March. 2011 – 19 March. 2010 – 31 March. 2009 – 15 March.

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