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2013 Big Year Update

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David Pavlik is doing a photographic big year, trying to photograph 500 species in the ABA-area in order to fundraise for the American Bird Conservancy’s work with the endangered bird species of Hawaii. You can follow along at Birding for Conservation , where I learned that David has already reached 270 species for 2013.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. Take Hawaii, for example. Note: Some of the accompanying photos and videos are very powerful, but also not necessarily for the faint of heart.). Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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Hey, What About the Great Auk?

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In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every. If something got rare we’d just tuck a preserve around it and keep it as a tourist attraction. We must fight to save every species we can, every ecosystem, every niche.

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AOU 53rd supplement: Highlights and near misses

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But as I and others have said before, it does raise a very practical question about what field guides, which have for the most part been slavishly devoted to taxonomic order, are going to do. Whether and where Bryan’s Shearwater still survives is unknown.

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Changing Bird Names (Again)

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He analogized the change to adding Hawaii to the ABA Area, which is puzzling since that modest change was preceded by years of debate, a membership referendum (in 2012), and a formal vote (in 2016). The Bird Names for Birds group (and others) have raised significant issues and they have done the birding community a service.

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“Shaking up IPAs” – Rhinegeist Brewery and Green Cheek Beer Company: Ain’t No Tang

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Not too long ago, the sight of Ain’t No Tang in the glass would have raised eyebrows, but after just a few years of cracking open so many 16-ounce cans of hazy IPA, its opaque apricot appearance isn’t so alarming. The nose is awash with the ripe, floral aromas of guava, passionfruit, mango, and mellow orange.

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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

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Go to French Frigate Shoals, in the far north of Hawaii, and you’ll find a chunk of rock no larger than medium city train station. It is the ultimate fate of those islands, and all the islands of Hawaii too, to erode award be replaced by newer islands. They rise, only to fall beneath the waves again.

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