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Big Years in 2013

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What records will fall in 2013? Periodically throughout 2013 we will check in with the folks we find doing big years to see how they are doing. Anyway, without further ado, here are the 2013 Big Year birders! Check out EPIC Big Year 2013. You can keep up with Matt at Canada Big Year 2013.

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2013 Big Year Update

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Now seems like a good time to look in on the birding big years happening in 2013 to see how folks are doing as they tear around their county or region or state or province or country trying to see as many birds as possible before 1 January 2014. He’s hoping to reach 300 species and blogging it at EPIC Big Year 2013.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of April 2013)

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I raise this perennial issue because I found myself twitching a rare ABA bird this weekend. One question every self-described birder must grapple with is to twitch or not to twitch. Some of us love to chase down preposterous vagrants, while others eschew bird chasing for contemplation of standard local fare and seasonal specialties.

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Astonishing Move By UK Government to Control Buzzards

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You could raise an eyebrow that at a time of cuts and austerity measures across a range of environment services and departments to be able to find £375k in support of a non-native species that is reared specifically to be killed anyway is a little astonishing. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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

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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. Since 2013, the ABA has had relatively modest annual operating deficits or surpluses, but mostly deficits.

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Osprey Cam

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Ozzie and Harriet with the 2013 brood. The two have built up a devoted following through years of triumph – like last season, when they fledged three young – and tragedy – like the season before, when their eggs didn’t even hatch.

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An afternoon in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

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They raise their trunks, sniffing the air. This time they appear more relaxed, but nervousness might be a better policy: between 2013 and 2017, well over a thousand rhinos were annually poached in South Africa. Nowadays, the Savannah Elephants are shorter and with smaller tusks, often without them. Sniffing us.