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Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of February 2015?

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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.

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The Science of Compelling Presentations

Sales and Marketing Management

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

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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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.).

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Birds of Chile – A Photo Guide

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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).

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

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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.

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Spreadsheets Don’t Predict the Future

Sales and Marketing Management

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'

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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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.