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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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Emerald Ash Borers vs. Woodpeckers (and Nuthatches)

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Even the cursed “polar vortex” which produced bone-chilling temperatures throughout large chunks of the United States in early 2014 doesn’t seem to have been long or cold enough to cause EAB die-off. “It’s unlikely that this would be enough to stop the invasion, but it could certainly slow it down, at least in some areas.”.

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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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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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On the threshold of flight

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Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. Here is the citation: Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou, Robert Dudley, Susan Mackem, Cheng-Ming Chuong, Gregory M. Erickson, and David J. Varricchio. An integrative approach to understanding bird origins.

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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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