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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of July 2014)

10,000 Birds

Though it wasn’t a life bird or a year bird it was the first Black-billed Cuckoo he had encountered in Queens since 2008 and only the second he has ever had in his home borough. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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White-Cheeked Pintails

10,000 Birds

Paradise Island in the Bahamas is, in my experience, a perfect place to spy these pintails. This post was last published in January 2008 , but we can’t keep ducks this delightful trapped in the archives now, can we?)

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Ghoulish Primate Experiment in South Africa

Critter News

Johannesburg - A Bloemfontein man received a criminal record on Friday for a "backyard experiment" on a pregnant monkey, the NSPCA said. The NSPCA in November 2008 charged Jordaan for his "merciless treatment" of a heavily pregnant vervet monkey. He had severed her spinal cord to paralyse her for a "backyard experiment.

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Banded Lapwing visits Broome

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The last time we had a Banded Lapwing Vanellus tricolor visit was 25th February 2008 and prior to that was 23rd September 2005. Masked and Banded Lapwing on the Golf Course Banded Lapwing From our experience we would not recommend camping near either of the two subspecies of Masked Lapwing … they are NOISY!!

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Cooperative and Curious Carolina Wren

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But that was just the start of my experience with this wonderful little wren. … This post was originally published on 15 March 2008, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! ……… a.

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Stray thoughts on customer experience trends

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: TIM HOULIHAN There were a few things that struck me as being relevant that didn’t quite make it into the print version of my article on elevating your customer experience. The most recent version of this approach was published in Harvard Business Review in the 2008 article “ Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work ” by James L.

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Birding and Wildlife photography at Limneo Lodge, Kerkini Lake, Greece

10,000 Birds

In 2008, with my family decided to build the Limneo Lodge , a small accommodation with only 9 rooms. In the next year I visited the British Birdfair for the first time, which turned out to be the experience that changed my life.

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