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The GBBC stands as one of the most important and easy international citizen science initiatives. Ready to spend this weekend gazing adoringly at the ones you love? Perfect, because the Great Backyard Bird Count has begun! Just pay attention to a patch or yard for a few days and log your sightings.
Issue Date: 2015-10-30. Author: David Hoffeld, CEO of Hoffeld Group. Teaser: Recent studies help us understand why presenting a product or service one way reduces the likelihood of the sale, while presenting the same product or service in another way increases the probability of the purchase. read more
Mark]: This luscious book, Penguins: The Ultimate Guide , by De Roy, Jones, and Cornthwaite, is the second edition of a book first published in 2015. Anything else we could say about this great book would only be more in the way of superlatives. (And the price has not increased since 2015; it’s a bargain.).
Guiding aside, Howell is a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences and the author of many books, including Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America (Princeton).
How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). Texas A&M University Press, 2015.
Issue Date: 2015-01-26. To move today’s sales and revenue forecasting from spreadsheets to a data-driven, prescriptive objective,we need to apply data science to revenue data. Author: Travis Patterson. read more'
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’s not always easy reading.
He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. In 2015, with my self- published Guide to the Birds of Honduras, I had the intent to simultaneously print it in Spanish. Good question and kind of hard to swallow. A worthwhile and commendable effort.
Here are a few suggestions for 2015: Lets get the incredibly unoriginal stuff out of the way first… do a big year. The citizen science aspect is a big hit with many users, and eBirding areas with little existing data can be fun as well. Frustrated that you still haven’t seen an Elegant Tern (above)?
This makes for an attractive looking book, but I do think that the page space could have been put to better use, maybe for a listing of the resources (organizations, field guides, citizen science websites) recommended throughout the book. September 15, 2015. by Nate Swick, illustrations by Robert Brandt. Kindle edition available Sept.
The 31 teams, 15 of them international and 16 local, set out as the clock struck midnight on March 24th, 2015 to scour the southern part of Israel for as many bird species as possible. A case of mistaken identity, this rare and secretive species, was only officially described to science in the last year.
He is also a sculptor and a naturalist and has combined his observations with his art in past titles, notably House of Owls (2015), In the Company of Crows and Raven s (2005), and Marine Birds and Mammals of Puget Sound (1982). Mark Hauber is currently (just appointed!) I do wish he had included Fairywrens!
I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, May 2015. I wish Karlson and Rosselet had cited scientific articles explaining the basics of brain psychobiology to support their ideas.
It is the last day of 2015, time to select the bird of the year past and set goals for the bright open future, when everything is new again. and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
The Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn from the 2015 Deming in Education conference: 2,900 views (2 years – 5,500). Inquiring Minds: Improving Elementary Science – Linda Lippe’s presentation at our 2015 Deming in Education Conference. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W.
Chapter Two is a potpourri of stories about nemesis birds, birding by ear, birding for science, under the rubric of birding ‘for the love of it.’ Louisiana is a magical place to bird. ’ What was left to write about? ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?” ” I wondered.
Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. “Wait!” ” you’re probably saying. “Let’s back up a little. This is a book about the Bronx?!” ” This makes a lot more sense once you know a little more about the area and its history.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 13, 2015). —————– Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean. by Scott Weidensaul. Peterson Reference Guides series. Hardcover, 352 pages, 7 x 0.9 x 10 inches. ISBN-10: 0547840039; ISBN-13: 978-0547840031.
However, articulated in a short introductory chapter, they shortchange the ornithological community and science in general. Armistead (2015), another excellent book on bird identification, though very different from this one; and, with Steve Howell, two companion books on Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: East Coast and West Coast.
There are (as of 2015) approximately 262,000 world-wide users of eBird. But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities. Again, not all birders subscribe to birding magazines, but these are also modest numbers.
In 2015, Google reported that mobile searches eclipsed desktop searches for the first time. Chanan Greenberg is senior vice president and general manager, high tech, at Model N , a leading cloud-based revenue management solutions for high tech and life sciences industries.
Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction.
In November of 2015, I saw a Northern Mockingbird 20 out of the 30 days. On May 22, 2015, I embarked on a 365 day-long project. A Brown-headed Nuthatch ? 3 of the 30 days. European Starling ? If you’re a rational person, you’re asking yourself two questions: How does she know that? Why does she care?
Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. PomegranateKids, 2015; Boardbook edition, 24 pages, 7 x 0.8 These illustrations by Steve Jenkins are perfect. The colorful collages fill each page with images of the bird, nest, and habitat. Grade Level: Preschool and up.
There are, though, brief, personal comments about scientists he admires, acknowledgements of studies with which he has been personally involved, and, best of all, a selection of the seabird rap delivered by Mark Maftei at the 2nd World Seabird Conference in 2015. And you might think you know them but you might be mistaken. Who is it for?
This week, Bon Appétit Management Company vowed that by 2015, none of the three million pounds of pork we serve a year (including 800,000 pounds of bacon) will come from hogs confined in gestation crates. It’s time to send the message that cost is not the only important consideration. JILLIAN PARRY FRY Baltimore, Feb.
According to a 2016 study by Radford, “[ sales] employee turnover is once again at five-year highs across most of the technology and life sciences sectors. In 2015 Millennials represented roughly 35 percent of the workforce, with Gen X, Baby Boomers, and the Silent Generation representing 43, 20, and 2 percent respectively.
Here it is in graphic form: Original Caption from Science Magazine: Duckworth et al. (4) Science 347(6224):875-877. Our results provide insight into how predictable community dynamics can occur despite the contingency of local behavioral interactions. The paper: Duckworth, Renee; Virgina Belloni, Samantha Anderson.
” There is also a Glossary, mostly of anatomical parts; A Bibliography of sources; a list of useful Websites–citizen science programs like iNaturalist that contain records of Costa Rican odonates; a listing of Photo Credits; and an “Index to Species and Families” (but not genera).
Gulls and sparrows are tough but manageable; Empids may require DNA analysis (as it actually did in the case of the non-vocalizing Western Flycatcher seen in Central Park, NYC in November 2015). Lee is also a geochemist and professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Rice University, Houston.
Fortunately, in science, there is often a way to turn a defeat into a victory – in this case via the author just coming up with a new hypothesis, “if black eagles use the frequency or intensity of mobbing as a clue to locate nests, a lack of seasonal difference in mobbing behavior by drongos may be an evolutionary adaptive strategy.”
As 2015 comes to a close and birders the world over start thinking about what 2016 will bring we here at 10,000 Birds would like to take a moment to celebrate our best birds of 2015. Each Beat Writer was given the opportunity to share their Best Bird of the Year for 2015 and, as usual, we had some pretty solid birds.
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