10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2015

Researchers say that South Georgia Pipits have hatched chicks. If no signs of rats are found by 2017, the island will be determined rodent-free for the first time since humans set foot on it more than two centuries ago. A bird species battling an onslaught of invasive rats just got a glimpse of hope.

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Georgia Rats Rodents 2017 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). Copyright © 2022 Alexander Lees and James Gilroy.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 258

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.

Falcons 206

Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2024

Then it’s a matter of doing a little research on the internet to find who rang the bird you saw, and then emailing the details of your sighting. After being ringed my godwit (EY70 137) wasn’t seen again until 1 July 2017, when it was reported from Aldeburgh Town Marshes, not far from where it was first ringed.

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Lithuania Morocco Iceland Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Birdlife South Africa has previously done two of these types of trips before, previously called Flock to Sea – Namibia in 2013 and Flock to Nowhere in 2017, in partnership with MSC Cruises. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences.

South Africa 263

South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

He’s the author of The New Neotropical Companion (2017, originally published in 1997), a must-read for any birder preparing to travel to Central and South America, the Peterson Reference Guide to Bird Behavior (2020), and a long list of other books and articles. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges.

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2006 Tortoises Sea Lions Porpoises 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. I am only joking! A worrying trend.

Myanmar 147

Myanmar Birds China Chicago 147

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 20, 2019

In fact, Research from Gartner-owned CEB found that median time to fill posts increased by 30 business days, or six weeks, between 2010 and 2017. Quite simply, today’s enterprises are facing a talent shortage, and it’s taking longer and longer to fill open posts.

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Neglecting 2017 2010 Adoptable 118

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Several years ago, I read about the enormous colonies of breeding birds in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and I did some research to satisfy my curiosity. ( Google Scholar is an excellent resource and free full-text PDFs can be located for many papers, particularly when research is taxpayer-funded.

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Transported 2011 Research 2012 113

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 8, 2017

The Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), a private not-for-profit foundation that focuses its initiatives on pragmatic research highlighting the premise and the power of incentive and motivational programs, issued a list of 10 incentive travel facts to commemorate Global Meetings Industry Day.

Industry 82

Industry South Carolina 2017 2016 82

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Birders who submit their checklists to Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird likely know that their data may be used to conduct scientific research on subjects such as migration, changes in range, or assessment of populations. I emailed the authors and asked about their research and their use of eBird data.

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Oregon Washington Chad Birds 175

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

The same publisher, Lynx Edicions, has already covered New Guinea region (943 species, including the total of 456 endemics), encompassing Indonesian West Papua (also the West Papuan Islands, Geelvink Bay Islands and Aru Islands) in “Birds of New Guinea – including Bismarck Archipelago and Bougainville” (2017).

Indonesia 264

Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 14, 2020

growth in wages from 2017 to 2018, resulting in the second-place spot for that metric. Market research analysts and marketing specialists – With a predicted addition of nearly 140,000 jobs by 2028, that’s growth rate of 20% over the decade, that’s a lot of opportunities.

2018 83

2018 2017 Morals Industry 83

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reduce time spent on research. The average sales person takes 128 minutes to find and research prospects before the first contact; this is an awful lot of valuable selling time to invest on research. Prospects expect cold calls and emails to be personalized. Allow sales to prospect intelligently.

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Game Research 2017 Adoptable 89

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

But I only rehabbed birds, so I had to do research and call my mammal rehabber friends. Your last post for 10,000 birds was in 2017. How much did you draw on your own experiences as a wildlife rehabber to tell Luna’s story? . I didn’t know the set up required for a black bear, or how high a Florida panther can actually jump.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Eagles Wildlife 253

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

Kennedy initiated the original project, and has returned to the Philippines many times since for research purposes; he seems to think that Rettig’s new project is crazy, but in a good way, and offers a larger perspective from the comfort of a room in (I assume) Cincinnati, where he works for the Museum of Natural History.

Eagles 203

Eagles Philippines Eggs Monkeys 203

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In another study, by Vantage Point Performance, researchers discovered a 39 percent difference in revenue performance between the top and bottom quartile of 518 sales managers in Fortune 500 companies. These results were due entirely to sales manager skills, independent of the skills of their salespeople.

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Neglecting 2017 Research Groups 67

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In DemandWave’s 2017 State of B2B Digital Marketing study , respondents indicated that Webinars drove 37 percent of their company’s revenue (side note: putting out proprietary research such as “State of the Industry” reports is another great product-agnostic marketing tactic). Follow him on Twitter at @ryanscottgould.

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Branding Industry 2017 2019 95

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2017

The accounts vary in length from two to six pages, and are well illustrated with photographic images by Ryan Phillips of the Belize Raptor Research Institute and a group of 40 photographers from the United States and Central America. The Species Accounts are the research-at-home section. Princeton University Press, 2017.

Mexico 161

Mexico America North America Falcons 161

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Author: Paul Nolan Before I began researching this issue’s cover story, I had no idea the lack of sales management training was as dire a problem as it is. In a 2017 report titled “Sales Managers: Overwhelmed and Underdeveloped,” CSO Insights reports almost 40 percent of organizations spend $500 or less annually on sales manager training.

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2017 2019 Research Groups 48

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2019

Comparing the results from 2015/2016 with 2017/2018, CSR is actually up two points across all regions. The most recent index study is a joint effort of The Society for Incentive Travel Excellence (SITE), Incentive Research Foundation (IRF), and Financial and Insurance Conference Professionals (FICP).

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Dominican Republic Neglecting Industry 2017 63

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Leventis is a businessman from London involved in wildlife conservation in Africa, including the establishment of an avian research institute in Nigeria and an amateur photographer. The Birder’s Guide to Africa | by Michael Mills, illustrated by Tasso Leventis | Go-Away-Birding | Paperback | August 2017 | 544 Pages | ISBN: 9780620717250.

Africa 168

Africa Botswana Nigeria Namibia 168

Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 30, 2018

Good coaching is particularly important these days since, as various industry publications have reported, the percentage of salespeople at quota has steadily declined, and in 2017 for the first time, this number dropped below 50 percent.

Jordan 66

Jordan Game Badgers Industry 66

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years. A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

Industry 111

Industry 2020 Georgia Research 111

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

China 180

China 2017 Birds Indonesia 180

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

E-bird data up to November 2017 was used to update migrational pattern data and “for locating obscure but locally significant records that otherwise might never have seen the light of day” (p. They wrote books and published research.

New York City 148

New York City New York Birds Breeding 148

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 26, 2018

According to the 2017 Center for Exhibition Industry Research Index Report, the fourth quarter of 2016 was yet another sign the reign of trade shows is over. High-powered decision makers no longer feel they have time to travel or roam around for a week accumulating briefcases full of brochures.

Branding 72

Branding Missouri Chicago Industry 72

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Brewing your coffee at home, which was the norm in 1971, costs (in 2017 dollars) about $0.08/cup2 Researchers across the world have used the same approach with other groups to replicate the results. Harvard Business Review, August 3, 2017. Center for Decision Research, University of Chicago, 2008. Zoltners, A.,

Science 76

Science Hawaii Chicago 2017 76

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In another study, by Vantage Point Performance, researchers discovered a 39 percent difference in revenue performance between the top and bottom quartile of 518 sales managers in Fortune 500 companies. These results were due entirely to sales manager skills, independent of the skills of their salespeople.

Neglecting 87

Neglecting 2017 Groups Industry 87

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers. Princeton University Press, 2017.

South America 148

South America Ecuador Reptiles America 148

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

I mention these trips because, along with other trips and experiences closer to home, they inform my research into my future birding travel. In contrast, one of my lifers in 2017 was an Emperor Goose in the Bay Area. Your prior trips will inform your birding travel planning too. Another is California Condor in the Grand Canyon.).

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San Francisco Portland United States Puerto Rico 100

Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 23, 2018

The estimated number of business-related emails exchanged each day is set to hit 269 billion by the end of 2017, and that number is estimated to grow by at least 4 percent on average each year for the next four years. And according to HubSpot’s research, 86 percent of businesspeople prefer email when it comes to work-related communication.

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Protection Industry Transported 2017 72

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The archipelago consists of 17,000 islands stretching out over 2500 miles along the Equator with a varied history of avian research and study, most on the under- or not-studied side. So, this is no ordinary bird guide. Where is the Indonesian Archipelago? It’s an odd effect, and doesn’t appear on the other seabird plates.

Indonesia 124

Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 124

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Covering 1,261 species with data and taxonomy current up to August 2017, the field guide is an exciting achievement. The Bibliography lists 677 articles and books, mostly articles, from ornithological literature, a record of the research that went into this volume. ” It does not, as I noted above, include bird anatomy terms.

America 213

America El Salvador Costa Rica Honduras 213

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

Clearly, author Phyllis Limbacher Tildes, the author of 24, soon to be 25, children’s books, is also a birder (and a little research brings up a presentation she gave at Ogeechee Audubon, Georgia with the biographical information and she and her family “love watching birds and wildlife seen near their lagoon on Skidaway Island.”

New York City 146

New York City Pelicans Penguins New York 146

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years. A Sales Benchmark Index survey from 2017 reported that in nearly 75% of sales situations, customers prefer not to meet in person. The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development.

Industry 48

Industry 2020 Georgia Research 48

Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 28, 2017

The company’s research program is the CEO taking things home and trying them out or a group of people charged with finding evidence to confirm the rightness of whatever the CEO has already decided to do. Copyright © 2017 by Tara-Nicholle Nelson. Used by permission of Berrett-Koehler Publishers. All rights reserved.

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Branding Groups 2017 2014 59