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2014 Arenal Bird Count

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But the prospects of our trip grew even more exciting once we learned that our stay would coincide with the Conteo de Aves Arenal 2014 or 2014 Arenal Bird Count. Best of all, we’d be part of the count team at Finca Luna Nueva. And then maybe you’ll turn up a Keel-billed Motmot!

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Is Hiring an Art or Science?

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Issue Date: 2014-06-12. It’s too much of both an art and a science, which means you can't template it. It’s too much of both an art and a science, which means you can't template it. Author: Navin Nagiah. Teaser: You can’t guarantee perfection in hiring. Nobody can. It is too complex. Nobody can.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Science , 345 (6196 ), 562–566.

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Big Years in 2013

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Greg Cantrell is doing a New Jersey Big Year, hoping for 300 species, and raising funds for the New Jersey Audubon Citizen Science program. And who’s planning one for 2014? You can see what she is up to at Laura’s Conservation Big Year 2013. No blog, but you can check out this post on the New Jersey eBird portal.

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Swallows. Swallowed

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But, until recently this has not been confirmed by science. 84, 263–266 (2014). The Tigerfish eating bird thing does not have the hallmarks of a fantastic thing. The story I saw on my Twitter feed referred to scientists from North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa, working in the Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa.

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Here’s the new bird family tree. It’s amazing.

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The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. 2014), presents an authoritative framework for our understanding of and future work on bird phylogeny. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert). Open Jarvis et al.’s

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2013 Big Year Update

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Now seems like a good time to look in on the birding big years happening in 2013 to see how folks are doing as they tear around their county or region or state or province or country trying to see as many birds as possible before 1 January 2014.

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