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

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At a minimum, there should be a free and downloadable (without the need for an email address) dedicated or special issue of Birding for new birders. Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. I can find no reliable estimates of the numbers of birding-related apps that have been downloaded. * * * *. These numbers are also modest.

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Why Do Penguins Wear Tuxedos?

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So, which came first, the underwater flight, the ability to hunt fish, the exceptional ability to live in the cold, or the tuxedo-camouflage? In other words, those ancient Penguins almost certainly swam underwater and given their other features, hunted there as well. 1193604 Drawing is from El Penseive de Dinorider.

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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This is a delightful book, large (8-1/2 by 11 inches), filled with Sibley’s distinctive artwork and an organized potpourri of research-based stories about the science behind bird’s lives. Is a free digital download possible?) copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean: A Book Review by a Lover of Parliaments

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But, for those owls who are more well-known and easier to find, we have the delight of seeing them in full-body portraits, perched in their habitat, with mates, as nestlings, hunting and flying, in concealment postures and eating prey. taken from the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.