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Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview

10,000 Birds

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 Bird Way: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Superb Lyrebird by John Burgoyne ©2020 . Many popular science books have neither. I am happy, however, that there is a list of readings and that there is an index.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore ”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim.

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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. It may become a poster child (poster bird?)

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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!).

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Sales in a Digital World: Adopting an Omni-Channel Approach

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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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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

10,000 Birds

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

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