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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of December 2017)

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With only a few weeks left before we turn the page on 2017, birders around the world have been burning their proverbial candles at both ends to observe as many birds as possible. I have to admit that I abstained from the CBC this year, prizing personal comfort over citizen science. Sign me up for a Memorial Day Bird Count any year!

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The Most Popular Videos on Our YouTube Channel in 2017

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Edwards Deming: The 14 Points : 46,000 views in 2017 (added 3 years ago – 106,000 total views all time). 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).

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Brewing your coffee at home, which was the norm in 1971, costs (in 2017 dollars) about $0.08/cup2 Because from the beginning, Starbucks has offered an experience worth valuing. Separability:  Reps can think of the trip to Hawaii as a unique experience. And you’ll notice the coffee is extraordinarily expensive.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

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Suzie wrote about her experiences as a bird rehabber in Flyaway: How A Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings (2009) and used those experiences as the source for her fictional children’s book, Hawk Hill (1996). How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? .

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. From Part I, “Shorebirds in Winter,” p. 41; © 2024 by Pete Dunne and Kevin T.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information. There is always more to learn, more to explore, and it appears that in some areas we are just starting to know what we don’t know (female bird song!).