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2008 Experience Experiments 
Critter News
DECEMBER 13, 2010
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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10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2014
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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10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2012
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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Sales and Marketing Management
MARCH 1, 2019
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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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2011
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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MARCH 13, 2012
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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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2011
A type of birding experience that I greatly enjoy is one of those moments where I’ve come across a simply huge number of birds. As I mined my old birding photos, I recalled one such experience at the Palekhori-Kambi Dam in the eastern part of the Troodos mountain range of Cyprus.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Although Henslow’s had been reliably found in nearby Sharon Springs for many years, the last documented sighting was in 2008, and the sighting startled longtime birders, waking them up to the fact that breeding sites in the state were rapidly being lost. In July 2011 a Henslow’s Sparrow was found in Ames, N.Y.,
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
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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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2014
Nature bloggers deserved a more tailored solution, which is why I issued the following invitation in January 2008 : Blogs are special. The Nature Blog Network was, at its heart, a community meant to promote this very personal, very beautiful commitment so many of us have made to sharing our experiences of the natural world.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2022
I do not (yet) have any accessibility issues, and my only experience regarding anything akin to accessibility has been limited to the period when my daughter was in a stroller, which presents only a tiny sliver of the challenges faced by many. The refuge has an impressive visitor center that opened in 2008, so it is ADA compliant.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
No eggs were laid in 2007, but in 2008 they laid their first two eggs and after three days they did not seem at all interested in sitting on them. Here are some of the experiences of the Pied Oystercatcher chick on Cable Beach in the last 4 weeks.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 2, 2022
Going back to that assumption that birds don’t have a sense of smell, it can be traced to John James Audubon (of course), who performed several experiments with Turkey Vultures and concluded that the vultures used sight, not scent, to find food. Whitaker was told that birds don’t smell by a in 2008. .
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AUGUST 4, 2015
Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Since 2000 Adam has been the sole owner and managing director of Rockjumper and has also founded Indri – Ultimate Mammal Voyages (2008) and Oryx – Worldwide Photographic Safaris (2010).
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Dutch researchers carried out 592,665 experiments on animals last year, a 2.5% increase on 2008, government inspectors said on Friday. More than half the experiments were carried out for academic research and one third of those were for medical research. From the DutchNews.nl.
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MAY 15, 2012
Few experiences birding get me more excited than adding a new bird to my Queens list. Black Vulture - Despite a marked increase in Turkey Vulture sightings – nine since March of 2011 when I had my first in Queens - Black Vultures remain stubbornly absent from the borough (only two sightings reported to eBird in Queens since 2008).
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 21, 2014
In my vast experience in the terrifying outland that is the world of the non-birder, the biggest question I get concerns the inherent trustworthiness of the avocation. In 2008, I found an Ash-throated Flycatcher, then the state’s 12th or so record, in remote Jones County, NC. What happens if you get caught.
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MARCH 13, 2011
If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Make It to the Midwest Birding Symposium Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2008? Mar 19th, 2011 at 8:26 pm Corey, I am jealous of your Red-breasted Merganser experience at JBWR and the flight shots. Get yours today!
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10,000 Birds
JULY 27, 2023
All around Porto Lagos (220 km / 140 mi east of Thessaloniki) lies the largest national park of Greece, Nestos Delta and the Vistonida-Ismarida lakes and lagoons complex, founded in 2008. I recorded the song, which Merlin app identified as a Skylark’s, but I had enough experience to know better: it turned out to be a Greater Short-toed Lark.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 24, 2013
The last time I was out there was in January of 2008 and Daisy and I had really enjoyed both the boat ride and the island itself. It was truly an amazing experience only lessened by the fact that Desi slept through the whole thing. We estimated at least 3,500 sooties and over 1,000 dolphins. It was amazing.
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Sales and Marketing Management
DECEMBER 8, 2019
And with artificial intelligence integrated into our daily experiences, consumers are also more intelligent than ever. Customers today expect highly connected, personalized experiences from all organizations, with even business buyers expecting simple, easy-to-navigate, consumer-like ones. Personalize using AI.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
We filmed these particular birds in early 2008 and this was when my videographer, Aderman, was still getting to grips with bird filming. I love the subtle colors of these birds and the way that they easily blend in with the sandy and dune landscapes that they inhabit.
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APRIL 2, 2013
Press, 2008) commissioned hundreds of black-and-white bird drawings to illustrate its species accounts. And, if you are part of an ongoing atlas project in your state, tell us about your experiences. Behind every distribution map, there must be a fascinating birding experience. of New Mexico Press, 2005).
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2014
It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( In 2008, Nick Sly published a review of Hackett et al. Jarvis et al.
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4 The Love Of Animals
AUGUST 9, 2009
The program will include stories such as: Racing Towards the Future – From competitive racers to loved family members, see how some greyhounds are getting the chance to experience a new way of life. It was a privilege to work with Purina and Kroger in 2008 to share my story about the bond that my dogs and I share.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.
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AUGUST 1, 2009
As of mid-2008, there were 4,777 black men imprisoned in America for every 100,000 black men in the population. Allow me to jump down to the paragraph that startled me into forced contemplation for several reasons: Black people need to roar out their anger at such treatment, lift up their voices and demand change.
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Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 29, 2020
Would it really be a motivational experience if I couldn’t stand at the bar and celebrate freely with my fellow qualifiers?” It may not match the experience that a couple hundred top performers can have when they gather together in Hawaii, but these are times for compromise. Covid-19 has no chance of killing incentive travel.
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MAY 7, 2019
Floyd has also written the ABA Field Guide to the Birds of Colorado (2014), the Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America (2008), and co-authored the Atlas Of The Breeding Birds Of Nevada (2007), plus numerous articles–over 125–in popular magazines and scholarly journals. He received a B.A.
138 Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 5, 2018
Author: Lee Shawback I fell into sales in 2008 kind of by accident. Unfortunately at this particular time in 2008 things were not going as planned. Up to this point in my career I had no experience or formal training in sales. I have found through life experience that having a plan is always good.
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JUNE 27, 2009
They grill the chickens, and trust me when I say it's all presented as a peak spiritual experience. If you dare, check out this small chart and these diagrams , and also please let me know if you know of any from 2008 or 2009. If there's a lesson in Food Inc.,
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Sales and Marketing Management
JUNE 22, 2020
Companies that provide their customers with outstanding digital experiences are twice as likely to be chosen as primary suppliers (as compared to suppliers providing poor experiences). a doubling of significance compared to pre-COVID-19 period.
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
This is the story of Fox’s experiences on board the Achiever, the research vessel of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The Achiever’s survey voyages took place from 2005 to 2008; the goal was to collect baseline data on sea mammals and marine birds. Northern Fulmar, image courtesy of Peter Hodum.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 4, 2016
The authors themselves–Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling–collectively have 100s of years of birding and photographic experience. I imagine that it’s a product of the authors’ concerns, but I don’t think it contributes to identification skills or knowledge base.
203 Sales and Marketing Management
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Because from the beginning, Starbucks has offered an experience worth valuing. Three years later, these same students were asked about their experience and both groups responded with the same level of satisfaction: a lot better than expected for the students in the shoddy dorm and a little worse for the students in the new, cool dorm.
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Animal Ethics
JULY 22, 2008
Suffering is far from a uniquely human experience. Hope Ferdowsian Director of Research Policy Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Washington, July 14, 2008 Our findings follow many other studies demonstrating mental anguish in traumatized animals.
Sales and Marketing Management
JULY 29, 2020
We can see the echoes of this time and the 2008 recession and also know that this is a time for everyone to reevaluate everything, from how they market their brand, to pivoting their business (if they can and if needed), how to sell, how to price their products and services, and much more.
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JANUARY 2, 2008
Now that 2008 has arrived, I'd like once again to encourage new and old readers alike to make this the year that they stop supporting animal cruelty in all of its forms. Since the New Year's resolutions you have made for 2008 are your resolutions, I assume that you would actually like to succeed in keeping them. How and by when?
Sales and Marketing Management
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Author: Paul Nolan An executive at a Fortune 1,000 company recently kicked off a summit for several hundred of the company’s content strategists, project managers and digital marketers with a story about an experience he had only days before at his neighborhood Starbucks. recession, to the current low of 13 percent.
48 Critter News
MARCH 23, 2009
It was an "experiment" you see, even though they are just Animal Control, not a research facility. Clay County violated five federal animal welfare regulations in a in September 2008 experiment that involved putting a dog in a non-air-conditioned truck for an hour at midday, according to a U.S.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 28, 2021
Lett began experimenting with pinot gris in 1979 with the very first plantings of this varietal in the New World. Lett died in 2008 but his historic Eyrie Vineyards still operates out of the Dundee Hills of the Willamette Valley, with both locations now designated American Viticultural Areas.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Islands, for various reasons, experience more extinctions than continents (with Africa being the only continent not suffering a bird extinction!). As you can imagine, I was champing at the bit to get to this lost paradise and when I finally obtained the necessary permissions in 2008, it didn’t fail to astonish!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
The experience is one of the ornithological highlights in the world. Lucky for us, world-traveler Tim Ryan of From the Faraway, Nearby was good enough to provide a profusely-illustrated account of his visit to Tambopata as a volunteer in 2008. Is this one of the ornithological highlights on the planet?
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