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A review by Amar Ayyash Landfill: Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene by Tim Dee Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018 239 pages, hardcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 15007 In this unique nature monograph, Tim Dee tackles a topic no author has before: How gulls—something of the once-wild—came to share our [read more…] A review by Sanford Sorkin How to Be an Urban Birder, by David Lindo WILDGuides, 2018 232 pages, softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 14865 Birdwatching London: All the Best Places to See Birds in the Capital, by David Darrell-Lambert Safe Haven Books, 2018 192 pages, softcover ABA Sales / Buteo Books 15008 Not every [read more…] It’s CBC season, which means thousands of birders working areas that typically don’t get the birding coverage they probably deserve the rest of the year. And as is typical this time of year, we see a number of great records coming out of CBCs across the ABA Area. But first, the rare birds that are [read more…] 
ABA Area rarities continuing into the middle of December include a Garganey (ABA Code 4) and Red-footed Booby (4) in California, joined by the still continuing Antillean Palm-Swift (5) and a La Sagra’s Flycatcher (4) in Florida. Highlight bird of the week is likely a Rustic Bunting (3) found in Pacific, Washington, a couple days [read more…] 
As is our tradition, the end of the year means it’s time for a look back at the best bird books published this year. Once again, 10,000 Birds book reviewer Donna Schulman joins me to talk about our favorites. Donna and I each share our Top 5, including field guides, family specific guides, and narratives [read more…] The ABA Blog launched all the way back in 2010 in a time of intense transition at the organization. Over the intervening decade it has been an integral part of the American Birding Association’s outreach strategy, providing an opportunity to learn about field marks and rare birds, to hear from our staff and friends, and [read more…] 
A survey of museum specimens from Chicago’s Field Museum suggests that migratory birds are getting smaller, likely due to climate change. Read more at BirdWatching Daily. “We had good reason to expect that increasing temperatures would lead to reductions in body size, based on previous studies,” says study lead author Brian Weeks, an assistant [read more…] 
Noteworthy rarities continuing into the beginning of December include Red-footed Booby (ABA Code 4) and Garganey (4) in California, and the long-staying Antillean Palm-Swift (5) and the likely-to-be long-staying La Sagra’s Flycatcher (4) in Florida
This week had another edition to the annals of epic rare bird stories, surrounding the fate of Washington’s 3rd [read more…] 
As we have in the past, here is the first rundown of the new bird taxonomy proposals submitted to the American Ornithological Society’s North and Middle America Classification Committee for 2020. The AOSNMACC is the volunteer group of ornithologists who make the split, lump, and name-change decisions that influence the ABA Checklist and our field [read more…] |
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How to Know the Birds: No. 23, Parakeet Possessions
What: Monk Parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus When: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Where: Green-Wood Cemetery, Kings County, New York
Aldo Leopold, the influential 20th-century ecologist, intended that his magnum opus be titled Great Possessions. Then marketing got involved. A Sand County Almanac has endured, and I can see why. Simple and descriptive vs. fraught and philosophical. [read more…]