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Blog Birding #149
Great blogging about birds this week on Camp Chiricahua, young shorebirds, tricky bluebirds, jaegers and grebes. Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Call for Birding Milestones!
With the retirement of Winging It (and the imminent publication of the new Birder's Guide series) it was critical that we find a new place for the ABA's popular Milestones feature. We've heard from many members about how much they enjoy Milestones, particularly when a friend or acquaintance turns up... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Whoa! Sent from my phone
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Rare Bird Alert: August 23, 2013
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No first records this week, but a surprising find in Arizona poses the question, "How many Blue-footed Boobies constitute an irruption?". Continue reading
Posted Aug 23, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Help Save the Paton's Hummingbird Haven for Birders
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The American Bird Conservancy is raising funds to help purchase the Paton's home in Patagonia, AZ, and maintain it as a hummingbird sanctuary, but they need your help. Continue reading
Posted Aug 20, 2013 at ABA Blog
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ABA Members, Help Us Populate the Membership Directory!
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The ABA's Membership Directory is now wholly online, with all the benefits that entails. But we need your help filling it in. Continue reading
Posted Aug 17, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Ebird has it as a 4. I think it was a relatively recent change. Sent from my phone
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Rare Bird Alert: August 16, 2013
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First records from Virginia and New York, highlight this week's rarity round-up. Continue reading
Posted Aug 16, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Eastern Kingbird and Peregrine Falcon aerial battle
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Massachusetts birder Tim Spahr witnessed and photographed an incredible aerial encounter between an Eastern Kingbird and a Peregrine Falcon. Continue reading
Posted Aug 15, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Blog Birding #147
Great bird blogging this week on the bird police, tips for writing bird reports, shorebird appreciation, storms and birds, and the New Orleans Pelicans. Continue reading
Posted Aug 12, 2013 at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - South Polar Skua - Oklahoma
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Oklahoma's first South Polar Skua, and one of only a few records for the interior of the continent, is busy terrorizing the avian residents of the lake where it has frequented. Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Rare Bird Alert: August 9, 2013
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First records from Oklahoma (South Polar Skua) and Utah (Bar-tailed Godwit) highlight this week of rarities, not to mention ABA area goodies like Lesser Sand-Plover and Rufous-necked Stint Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2013 at ABA Blog
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The Stars at Night, a Wood-Rail in verse
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The Rufous-necked Wood-Rail, immortalized in verse by Tom Crawford Continue reading
Posted Aug 7, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Blog Birding #146
Blogging this week on minimizing your carbon footprint, redpoll vocalizations, Ted Parker, birding injuries, and late summer shorebirds. Continue reading
Posted Aug 5, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Rare Bird Alert: August 2, 2013
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We've been over a year since we've gone more than one full week without a report of a state or provincial first record, and with our backs to the wall we've done it again. As with so many times during this remarkable streak it was the birders of Colorado, home... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2013 at ABA Blog
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ABA Blog in Review: July 2013
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July was the month of the wood-rail, but there was so much more at the ABA Blog this month! Continue reading
Posted Jul 31, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Blog Birding #145
Blogging this week on eBird results, Big Days, light on gulls, gray catbirds, and the difference between "juvenile" and "immature". Continue reading
Posted Jul 29, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Architecture to Reduce Bird Collisions Spreads
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Oakland, CA, becomes the latest municipality to embrace bird-friendly building standards, ideas which may see wider adoption across the United States. Continue reading
Posted Jul 28, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Jeff Gordon on CBS This Morning
Jeff's Wood Rail interview is now online. Find it here! Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2013 at ABA Blog
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According to the ABA Rare Bird Alert Facebook page, the rail hasn't been seen since the 19th.
Toggle Commented Jul 27, 2013 on Wood Rail, and Jeff Gordon, to appear on CBS This Morning on 7/27! at ABA Blog
Wood Rail, and Jeff Gordon, to appear on CBS This Morning on 7/27!
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Set your DVRs or your alarms! Jeff Gordon will be on CBS This morning on 7/27 to talk wood rails and birding. Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Rare Bird Alert: July 26, 2013
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No first records this week, but a Lesser Sand-Plover in California and a Slate-throated Redstart in Arizona highlight this week's rarities. Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Updates from Camp Colorado
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This week, a group of teens from all over the ABA Area are convening in the ABA's home state of Colorado for the annual Camp Colorado. In addition to ABA staff, we're joined this year by our friends David La Puma and Jeff Bouton representing Leica, who have been generous... Continue reading
Posted Jul 25, 2013 at ABA Blog
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#ABArare - Slate-throated Redstart - Arizona - UPDATE
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A Code 4 Slate-throated Redstart, Arizona's second of the year, was reported from Huachuca Canyon in Cochise Co. Continue reading
Posted Jul 25, 2013 at ABA Blog
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Blog Birding #144
Highlights of bird blogging this week include tips on feeding pigeons and a debate on de-extinction of a famous one, what makes a birder great, the Traveling Trinovid at Camp Colorado and the most recent edition of I and the Bird. Continue reading
Posted Jul 22, 2013 at ABA Blog
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