What follows is another post that just appeared on Texbirds today. Greg
Lasley, a new board member posted this on Texbird. If this duplicates
messages that Greg has sent to but which have not yet arrived in my mail
through Birdchat and Calbird, please excuse my stepping on Greg's toes, but
this is important news that I want to get out to ABA members, especially those
of us who hold strong opinions about Greg Butcher.

Great birding and find that next lifer,

John (One of Birders2)
John + Irma = 2, we are birders, too.

John C. LeVine Birders2 at aol.com Los Angeles, CA

The problem with Modern Man is he can no
longer see the stars at night through his city lights.
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A thought on a moonless night in Big Bend National Park 4/30/97

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>Birders:
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> Due to a computer glitch, ABA has not been able to post the following
>announcement on its website and will not be able to do so for another day
>or more. However, since ABA's board and staff have been advised, we are
>requesting the good offices of various chat lines to start informing our
>members and the community at large.
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> Greg Butcher, our Executive Director for the past six years, is
leaving
>ABA to become Editor of *Birders World*. Greg will take the editorial reins
>of this highly successful and well-regarded magazine upon the retirement of
>founder Eldon Greij in about a month. After a lengthy search for a worthy
>successor, Kalmbach Publishing Co., the Wisconsin magazine conglomerate
>that owns *Birders World*, settled on Greg as just the right man for the
>task. They made him an offer he could not refuse and ABA could not match.
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> Greg leaves with our strong, continuing friendship and heartfelt
thanks
>for a superb job of steering ABA through the choppy seas of rapid growth
>and broad evolution. We mourn our loss, while wishing him the absolute best
>of everything. We are working hard to find the proper replacement.
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> Allan Keith, President
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