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What Impact Will Drones Have on Birds?

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In a recent study , a team of French researchers set out to test whether a drone’s color, speed, and angle of approach affected different groups of birds. It’s quite possible that further research into the internal stress indicators of birds may reveal similar findings.

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On the threshold of flight

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Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. Research into bird origins provides a premier example of how paleontological and neontological data can interact to reveal the complexity of major innovations, to answer key evolutionary questions, and to lead to new research directions. Varricchio.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

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Storytelling has stood the test of time as a critical skill in sales and marketing?—?and Research behind the persuasiveness of storytelling is well-publicized. “Demonstrating emotional intelligence and empathy goes a long way in marketing communications; no one wants to be treated as if they’re a data point. Stories get a revival.

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How healthy is your office?

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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. Researchers found that daylight and window views boost employees’ working memory, but have no effect on their ability to switch effectively between tasks.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

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The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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Mitochondrial mysteries and splitting-lumping Yellow-rumped Warblers

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A thread on BirdChat two weeks ago reminded me of a fascinating paper that went up online last fall and was published in the January 2014 issue of Evolution: Migration, mitochondria, and the Yellow-rumped Warbler (Toews et al.). The photo above is a breeding-plumaged Myrtle Warbler by Kelly Colgan Azar. So Toews et al.

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Seabirds: The New Identification Guide: An ID Guide Review

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There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). .; Houghton Mifflin, U.S.), SCOPE & SPECIES ORGANIZATION.

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