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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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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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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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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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Quoth the Raven: Who you callin’ bird-brained?

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Compared with the results of a large-scale 2014 study in animals, the birds performed admirably well at devising ways to retrieve a treat from a transparent tube. A team of researchers from Sweden, the UK, and Germany collaborated to study intelligence in Ravens, Jackdaws , and New Caledonian Crows.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

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of Chicago Press, 2014). The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.

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