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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record – which is the book’s full title, or Arjan Dwarshuis’s Big Year, as I prefer to call it shortly, is a highly anticipated and a long awaited travelogue of the author’s 2016 race against time across 40 countries in his attempt to break the world birding record.

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

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They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.

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How Sales Leaders Can Motivate Younger Employees Through Purpose-Driven Incentives

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Your team members will have a higher morale in their sales outreach thanks to prospects’ increased receptiveness. In 2016, she founded Packed with Purpose , a corporate gifting company that embeds social impact into the everyday act of gift-giving, from empowering underserved women with job skills to supporting sustainability efforts.

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How Sales Leaders Can Motivate Younger Employees through Purpose-Driven Incentives

Sales and Marketing Management

Your team members will have a higher morale in their sales outreach thanks to prospects’ increased receptiveness. In 2016 she founded Packed with Purpose , a corporate gifting company that embeds social impact into the everyday act of gift-giving, from empowering underserved women with job skills to supporting sustainability efforts.

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Germany’s Great Bustards and how to see them

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Since then, we have seen a marvellous recovery, with an estimate of 123 in 2012, 145 in 2013, 165 in 2014, 197 in 2015 and now in 2016, around 232 Great Bustards roam the wilds of Germany, nearly doubling their number within just a handful of years! This is prohibited under German nature conservation laws and a moral no-go.

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Combating Disengagement: What can be done about workers’ lack of interest in their jobs?

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The percentage of engaged workers was also 34 percent in March 2016.). They can be a huge drain on company morale as their “do the bare minimum” attitude influences their coworkers. those who are involved in, enthusiastic about and committed to their work and workplace?—?is is 34 percent.

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Highlights from Costa Rica, Global Bird Weekend, 2020

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Since the first Global Big Day in May of 2016, this free worldwide event has taken off like a rocket to Mars. Oh yeah, and the serious mega of the day was a dang adult Gray-hooded Gull seen at the shorebird hotspot of Punta Morales! For example, I enjoyed watching this Merlin from the back balcony while sipping some damn fine coffee.