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The Bird Way: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

A logical and outstanding successor to The Genius of Birds (2016), Ackerman’s award-winning book about bird cognition, The Bird Way explores the diversity of bird behavior, the norm and the extremes, with an emphasis on cutting-edge research and findings that explode assumptions. Many popular science books have neither.

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Adventures of a Louisiana Birder: One Year, Two Wings, Three Hundred Species–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. 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.’ ’ What was left to write about? ” I wondered.

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The Most Popular Videos on Our YouTube Channel in 2017

10,000 Birds

The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W. Red Bead Experiment (a longer video than the excerpts from this that are listed above): 2,100 views (2 years – 5,300). See our popular 2016 videos post for more of these gems, I didn’t duplicate any I listed there in this list.

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. This is the chapter where Osborn talks about “second chances.”

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Hard for you to say you’re sorry?

Sales and Marketing Management

a faulty experience with you. At first glance, you might not think that such subtle configuration changes, using elements already proven to be individually effective in previous apology science studies, would produce a single, consistent winning framework. Prior to our latest research, apologies had been a reasonably well-studied area.

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Team incentives: 7 do’s and 2 don’ts

Sales and Marketing Management

Teams perform better than individuals [ Kuhn, “Experiments on Motivation, Incentives and Rationality” 2007 ], and you and your bottom line can benefit from rewarding teams. Tim Houlihan is chief behavioral strategist at BehaviorAlchemy, blending real world experience with behavioral science to improve ROI for clients.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

10,000 Birds

Biological Conservation 199 (2016): 146-156. This paper, which was cited in the paper we just discussed, conducted the relevant experiments: Addison, Jason A., That summary was based in part on this paper: Freifeld, Holly B., Long-distance translocations to create a second millerbird population and reduce extinction risk.”