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Good news for the Wood Stork

10,000 Birds

Since 2004, the three-year averages (2003 to 2012) for nesting pairs ranged from 7,086 to 10,147, all above the 6,000 three-year average identified in the 1997 recovery plan as the threshold to consider reclassifying the species to threatened status. Wood storks primarily breed in Central and South Florida.

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Nature Blog Network: A Eulogy

10,000 Birds

Other bloggers were writing about birds and nature back in 2003, some even before then, and many of us found a communal spirit sparked by comments and crosslinks that carried into the world we wrote about. Remember the blog carnival craze?

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New Zealand Storm-petrels; Back from the Dead

10,000 Birds

There is a depressing finality about extinction, but knowing when for certain something is extinct is an imprecise science and on occasion we’ve gotten it spectacularly wrong. Jerdon’s Courser , a small nocturnal wader from India, wasn’t seen between 1900 and 1986.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

You can register for a free webinar by Tim in which he will expand on the science of workplace motivation. Affective Forecasting,” Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago, 2003. The webinar is scheduled for 2 p.m. Register here. Zoltners, A., Sinha, PK., &

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Sri Lanka Attempts to Establish Animal Research Guidelines

Critter News

The need for such guidelines was felt acutely when the National Bioethics Committee (NBC) of the National Science Foundation realized in 2003 that there was no legislation or nationally applicable codes of practice to ensure the humane treatment of animals used in research, states well-known animal lover, Dr.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2003 , 2007 , and 2013. Based on these numbers, FWS estimated that birder spending on equipment and travel generated nearly $96 billion in total industry output, 782,000 jobs, and $17 billion in tax revenue. That’s a lot of birding.

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Push Land-Grant Universities Out of the Meat Industry

Animal Person

Animal science” – distinct from zoology, the science of Earth’s millions of animal species – is what LGUs call meat-industry courses, including slaughtering animals, making ice cream, the full range of meat-linked endeavor. RPA launched its 10,000 Years Is Enough campaign to get our universities out of the meat industry in 2003.