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Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of December 2018?

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Wherever you engage in this time-honored celebration of citizen science and avian diversity, dress for the weather and have a blast! The post Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of December 2018? Corey will be looking to break more records with this year’s Queens Christmas Bird Count. Wish him luck.

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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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In 2018, I read an article in Birding magazine by Jeff R. Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. What was the response to your Birding article in 2018? I got about 50 email responses.

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8 Sales Enablement Predictions for 2018

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As sales organizations look to succeed in 2018 and beyond, they need to stay abreast of important trends that will impact how – and how successfully – their reps sell. In 2018, we’ll see technology fill in some gaps, to guide and augment what sales managers do. In the meantime, best wishes for a prosperous 2018!

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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan (again)

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He should not be confused with Stewart Traill (1936–2018), the founder of a cult-like group of evangelical Christians, the Church of Bible Understanding. Or in the language of the “science hippies” (Ze Frank ), the “purple nectar [acts] as a foraging signal” If you do not like blue, here is the Red-tailed Minla. (To

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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). inches ISBN: 9780691167398 Publisher : Princeton University Press (05/01/2018). And that is what recommends Steve N.

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A Climate Change Crash

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Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.” PNAS August 6, 2018.

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Global Big Day in Costa Rica

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The Lab also acts as the heart and soul for the very popular (and often addictive) citizen science gem known as eBird. Those who did so on May 5th automatically became part of the biggest day of collective birding in 2018; Global Big Day ! This Plumbeous Kite made it onto the list for the day. Next year will be even better.