10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering. The checklist of the Louisiana Ornithological Society was at 485 as of August 2020.)

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Unlike some of us who started birding in midlife, Rogers brings to her new passion an adventurous history of a life lived outdoors–rock climbing (serious rock climbing, not in a gym), kayaking, ballooning, environmental stewardship, time in Alaska and Antarctica–which she uses to inform her new birding experiences.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition by John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin gives the traveling naturalist the tools needed to fully appreciate and experience the Galápagos Islands. The 11th chapter is on research and conservation challenges. I wish I had read this book. They complement Kricher’s text.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. I would also love to have more documentation of the many books, articles, research points, and stories that Dunn relates, at the very least a list of sources. Is all that material on Selkirk needed? Still, I would really love to see this in some form.

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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). It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2020

Over and again, Kroodsma admits to things to which neither he, nor any other researchers, yet have answers – including areas where diligent amateurs can, he says, make discoveries. 27, March 10, 2020. And that’s part of the point of the book, and its charm – how much there is still to be discovered in the realm of birdsong.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Indeed, most of what we knew about Emperor Penguins before Kooyman’s research expeditions was about their breeding behavior and physiology. Kooyman was there to work at McMurdo Station (a large American research station that we hear about throughout the book) as technical assistant on a science mission involving fish.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Dorian’s gregarious personality and self-deprecating sense of humor makes even the most meditative sections one of a piece with his birding experiences, producing a good read that may make you think. Nate Swick, Frank Izaguirre, and I discussed Big Year books on the ABA Podcast in 2020.* There are also surprises.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Freeman Event Research reports that some are pushing boundaries and reimagining virtual events in useful, unusual, and offbeat ways. UBA Trends Day planned to host its in-person event in Brussels in March 2020. If 2020 has taught up anything, it's that this is a good time to take a step back and rethink how we can best serve audiences.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 5, 2020

Author: Leeatt Rothschild Sales managers are racing to hit their 2020 goals, which are likely higher than last year’s. According to HBR, research shows that most sales reps fit into three performance levels: stars, core and laggards. Here are a few tips to help you along the way: Recognize hard work with a meaningful gift.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 16, 2019

Author: Chanan Greenberg The sales landscape is shifting – customer service is becoming the most important factor for buyers, expected to surpass both product and price within three years, according to the Customers 2020 report. Despite this, nearly two-thirds of consumers believe their B2B experience is inferior to their consumer experience.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Author: Jo Barnes 2020 was a year of turbulence in almost every aspect of life (understatement of the century?), Next, think about the user experience (UX) of your website. Do your keyword research to find out what kinds of questions your potential audience is asking—and then answer those questions with your content.

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SalesFuel

JULY 29, 2024

Their budgets have been plummeting steadily since 2020. The top content tasks marketers trust AI to handle are: Brainstorming new topics: 51% of marketers use AI for this task Researching headlines, keywords, etc.: of company revenue to 7.7%. And, unfortunately, this isn’t new for marketers.

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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. I photographed the Black-tailed Godwit in my photograph ( above ) on 18 September 2020. In the summer of 2020 it was back at Brancaster Staithe again, with the first record on 23 July.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 29, 2020

Author: Paul Nolan According to an April survey by the Incentive Research Foundation, the top concern about participating in work or reward-related travel was the threat of an epidemic/pandemic at 33%, followed closely by severe weather at 29%. This begs the question, what’s up with the weather scaredy-cats ? Incentives interrupted.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is home to four diverse forest ecosystems (deciduous, mixed, boreal, and lowlands), experiences seasonal weather systems ranging from cold dry Arctic winters to humid, thunder-storm filled summers, and, according to the latest official checklist, hosts four professional sports teams with bird names.* state and Canadian provinces.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Author: David Satterwhite In 2020, I reached my 30th year in business-to-business technology sales. Companies that kept their pulse on changing customer attitudes and strove to deliver an outstanding experience during the Great Recession showed three times higher return than customer experience laggards, according to a McKinsey study.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 6, 2020

TOPO Research's Craig Rosenberg also made this analogy recently: “Look under the hood of any successful manufacturing company, and you’ll find a well-orchestrated supply chain that ensures efficient end-to-end handling of everything from raw materials to shipped products. TOPO Research predicts this market will double in 2020 alone. .

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development. Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years. It stands to reason that if customers are relying less on in-person meetings for information, they’re relying more on their own online research.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 29, 2019

In the latest Digital Trends report, which surveyed marketing, creative and technology professionals, nearly one third of organizations are planning to invest in AI within 12 months – a market projected to reach $70 billion by 2020. That’s a significant opportunity. Be Excited about AI.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

If you’re still hesitant to embrace voice-activated technology, consider this: by 2020, about 50 percent of searches will be voice searches. CRMs can – and should – be used to log multiple elements of the customer experience. And even if you don’t capitalize on this revolutionary technology, your competitors will.

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Sales and Marketing Management

MAY 6, 2019

While you may feel that this age group does not possess a lot of buying power, research shows that Generation Z accounts for about $29 to $143 billion in direct spending. Moreover, they are projected to become the largest generation of consumers by 2020. The omni-channel experience. As such, they are very online-savvy.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

While there was widespread business and economic disruption among other kinds of disruptions in our daily lives last year, 2020 was actually the year of doing business online. If research and the numbers are to be believed, last year saw a growth that could only be compared to the accumulated growth of the past 10 years before it!

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SalesFuel

MARCH 22, 2024

increase since 2020 Google: 215% Digital: 156.3% CTV offers a similar ad experience as its linear counterpart, but it also provides more sophisticated targeting and analytics capabilities.” Photo by: Phillip Goldsberry SalesFuel - Sales Credibility | Sales Research | Sales Hiring | Sales Management | Sales Enablement

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The shift to less face-to-face interaction with customers and prospects isn’t a 2020 development. Buyers have increasingly embraced completing their own research for years. It stands to reason that if customers are relying less on in-person meetings for information, they’re relying more on their own online research.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2020

The speaker turned out to be Tim Laman, and the topic was the incredible research he and Ed Scholes had spent years doing on birds of paradise in New Guinea. Also of use, as Gregory points out in the Introduction, is his experience with painting birds of iridescence, having painted a whole book on sunbirds! and Sicklebill Safaris.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

.’ Gorman has read and distilled probably every research study ever written about Wrynecks or related to them; my quick count of the citations in the 16-page References section came to 295. Practically every sentence is documented with these studies. Yet, The Wryneck does not read like a literature review.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. Damselflies first, then dragonflies.

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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.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The other thing that happens in B2C marketing that doesn’t happen in B2B marketing yet is a lot of experimenting,” Westerman adds. In their article, Westerman and Bonnet explore multiple elements of digital transformation that drive organizational change, including operations, employee experience and business models.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. But what do we know beyond these commonly seen and heard behaviors?

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SalesFuel

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

So much so that researchers claim, customer rage is mutating like a virus. This reflects the highest percentage since the survey began; an increase of 8% since 2020. Estimates show future revenue loss of $887 billion, up from $494 billion in 2020. 32% admitted pressuring/badgering their sales representative.

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