10,000 Birds

JUNE 18, 2015

Before 2014, no active, natural roost sites were known; all of the active, known roosts were in bat houses. The Florida Bonneted Bat is vulnerable to a wide array of natural and human-related threats. Further studies used geographic variation and morphology to arrive to the conclusion that E.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2022

One would think that a bird named Grey Butcherbird is a shrike or at least related to shrikes (which are commonly called butcherbirds), but one would be wrong, as Duncan already explained in a 2014 post for 10,000 Birds. Like many humans, the species is “socially monogamous but sexually promiscuous” ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The 2014 season demonstrated the power of cooperation, communication, and determination to save three Chimney Swifts. As a result of human interference, four Chimney Swift nestlings had to be rescued. Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it sometimes takes a “village” of rehabbers to save threatened wildlife.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Suffice it to say that the numbers predicted on this site by Corey and two commenters, in 2014, when Strycker announced his plan, all were low. And he proves himself, in “ Birding Without Borders ,” to be a charming companion-on-paper, as well.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2014

So, for example, humans are apes. Fortunately for we humans, placing primates properly phylogenetically in relation to the other mammals requires an act or two of faith at the deeper ends of the family tree, but it is probably true that primates and rodents share a common stock to the exclusion of others, so maybe we are all mice.

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 28, 2014

You might know Susie as the winner of the 2014 American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards. We have a special giveaway today. Susie has a special story, and a movie has been made all about it. We have a DVD … Continue reading → The post Susie’s Hope Movie Giveaway appeared first on 4 The Love of Animals.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2021

It wasn’t until a later Pino Real trip, back in 2014, that I saw my first Black-headed Siskins. In the end, I would have to say that this trip gave me some added confidence in nature’s ability to fight back against the ravages of humanity. I know, I show too many photos of Crescent-chested Warbers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

written by Richard Garrigues and illustrated by Robert Dean (Comstock, 2014) and Birds of Belize , written by H. © 2007, 2014 text Richard Garrigues, © 2007, 2014 illustrations Marc Roegiers and John K. Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! Lee Jones and illustrated by Dana Gardner (Univ. © 2003 text H.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. 372 pages, 8.3

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Once upon a time, back in the heady, innocent days of 2014, I reviewed a book called The Mincing Mockingbird Guide to Troubled Birds. Of all the books I’ve ever had the honor of reviewing for this site, it was in some ways the most attuned to my own particular sensibility.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

There are many more factors than I imagined: compass errors, wind drift, overshooting, extreme weather and irruptions, natural dispersal, and human-driven vagrancy. Some birders may want to carefully read the chapter on human-driven vagrancy, which takes up the question of ship-assisted vagrancy. Next time, I’ll know why.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-11-01. Teaser: UnSelling is what happens when you understand the humanity of your market, produce a quality product and create experiences that lead to trusted referrals. Author: SCOTT STRATTEN AND ALISON KRAMER. UnSelling means stepping back from the funnel and focusing on everything else but the sale. read more'

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Issue Date: 2014-09-01. She runs the company’s annual Gold Club program, which recognizes more than 2,000 sales professionals, human resources professionals, administrative assistants and other employees worldwide through three regional incentive programs. read more'

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SalesFuel

MAY 5, 2024

He started the firm in 2014 and has led it through double digit growth every year since, attracting funded startups to enterprise clients. The Human Element in Sales: The discussion underscores the importance of retaining the human element in sales and marketing. That doesn’t do any good to anybody."

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2018

Automation provides the engine and consistency to fully perform in each metric and engage valuable leads at a scale that is impossible for a human sales team alone. After all, at the end of the day every company still needs humans to, as Alec Baldwin’s character famously shouted, “Get them to sign on the line which is dotted!”.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There are two excellent guides to the birds of Borneo: Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan , 3rd Edition , by Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillips, (2014), and Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan by Susan Myers (2009).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

And, Essay #195, “Our Human Values: The Ugly,” describes the standoff between catfish loving Double-crested Cormorants and catfish farmers in the Missouri Valley. I’m not sure if “the Ugly” refers to the cormorant itself or human reaction (catfish farmers are officially allowed to shoot the birds). (In

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Animal Ethics

MARCH 6, 2014

BRUCE FRIEDRICH Senior Policy Director Farm Sanctuary Washington, March 4, 2014 To the Editor: The humane laws for hens in California that provide them more space in which to live should be countrywide. Chickens deserve to live humanely. ELAINE SLOAN New York, March 4, 2014' That’s the least farmers can do.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

“My experiments show that character-driven stories with emotional content result in a better understanding of the key points a speaker wishes to make and enable better recall of these points weeks later,” Zak states in a 2014 Harvard Business Review summary of his research. “In

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2020

In the book, they explain that two brothers from the finance world founded the International Well Building Institute and created a WELL certification process in 2014. At a fundamental level, health drives human performance. The authors call these Health Performance Indicators (HPIs). “At The problem of split incentives.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. That’s Redgannet’s BBOTY at the top of the post.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It’s no secret that beer and wine share a common heritage that dates back to the earliest days of human civilization. In 2014, the winery released Besieged, a blend of petite Syrah, Carignane, Zinfandel, Syrah, Alicante Bouschet, Barbera, and Mourvedre grapes. Ravenswood Winery: Besieged (2014). alcohol by volume.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

But whatever birders think about falconry, someone is sure interested in reading about it – they’re lapping the stuff up, from Helen Macdonald’s big prizewinning kahuna of 2014, H is For Hawk, reviewed here , and further discussed here , to Big Brother: A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife , reviewed just a few weeks ago here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. Why do they do this?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

When I came here for the first time in 2014, I stayed at the Limneo B&B in the Chrisochorafa Village and met its owner, Nikos Gallios. Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. What should I expect? In these five years, the hotel remained the same, only this time I met my friend Nikos Gallios.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The rise in drone popularity over the past few years has been meteoric — and in our typical human arrogance, we’ve once again ignored the fact that for the past 150 million years, the sky has belonged to the birds. You can follow her on Twitter @LizVGreene or dig deeper into her internal musings on InstantLo.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

In fact, the Dodo belonged to a clade (sometimes called Raphini) of 15 remarkable, bizarre, intriguing island-adapted pigeons, some of which are still alive today, but eight of which have been hacked from the tree of life, driven to extinction by humans. The painting above is by 17th-century Flemish artist Roelant Savery.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It turns out that the crake had been feeding all morning along the westward part of Ocean Parkway, and birders discovered that the best place to observe it, being skittish to human presence, was from the wide, poison ivy infested median separating the eastward and westward lanes. In Rare Birds of North America (PUP, 2014), Steven N.G.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). The photographs were never published. 95 halftones.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Three books will have been published about the Passenger Pigeon by the end of 2014: A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, The Passenger Pigeon by Errol Fuller, and A Message From Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today by Mark Avery.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

Shorebird identification takes time and is often stressful, there’s heat glare and bugs and drones and dogs and humans. Dunne was director of the Cape May Bird Observatory and vice-president of the New Jersey Audubon Society for many years, till 2014. But this does not mean I don’t love shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2017

Corey wrote about the Common Tern chicks of Nickerson back in 2014, so I thought it was time for another post. I know I shouldn’t, these are not humans, but I do.). In June, I go to Nickerson Beach, a place of nesting Common Terns , American Oystercatchers , Piping Plovers , and, later in the summer, Black Skimmers.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With enough imagination and superstition, some birds can be absolutely frightening – as the multitude of spooky fowl haunting the darkest corners of human culture throughout history will attest. But our ancestors weren’t always so lucky to appreciate birds the way we do. Wood engraving by Joseph Swain after the Sandys original.).

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