10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2024

It breeds on the shores of the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic, then gathers around the southern arm of Hudson Bay, to fly non-stop all the way to the southern tip of South America. I could not test this theory in 2024, as by that month the lake had disappeared. (But I will still provide one.)

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Squirrels Mexico Kansas South America 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

I’m focusing on Turkey Vultures here because they are undoubtedly the species most birders in North America (the home of 10kB) are most familiar with, but the name vulture applies to birds found around the globe. It’s worthy of admiration , if not respect, for this most disrespected of birds. Here’s the kicker though.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2021

I strained to see them, could only see an occasional booby escape our bow, watch some of the hundreds of Wedge-tailed and Pink-footed Shearwaters zip by and hold on as our boat tested its speed. As we approached and drew nearly alongside the small seabirds, we also tested the limits of our optics, our balance, and our focus.

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Costa Rica Dolphins Sea Turtles Turtles 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2015

I was still telling the truth when I mentioned the four subspecies, species, taxa, forms, you name it, of the Great Egret: modesta (Asia), alba (Europe, Asia), egretta (Americas) and melanorhynchos (Africa). This is particularly interesting for birders in North America and Europe (duh!), How then could such a vagrant be identified?

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North America Europe America Asia 182

Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

Parent L'Oreal said the difficult economic climate hit Body Shop sales in Britain, Spain and North America. When she sold to L'Oreal, with its questionable history and animal testing, it was a real betrayal of the company's practices and principles (in my opinion.) Tags: animal testing economics L'Oreal cosmetics.

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Spain North America Tagged Animal Ethics 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Even more than warbler, shorebird, and sparrow identification, this is a field that tests our endurance (gull watching is too often done in bitter cold, windy conditions), patience (even getting one good photo can take hours as you try to separate the ‘interesting gull’ from the flock), observational skills (so many plumages!) Range Maps.

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North America El Salvador America Nicaragua 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2014

I recently participated in an “English Report Writing” training, sponsored of course by my employer, and this post will function as a test to see how well I was focussed on the lecture (instead of the sky outside the seminar room which may hold a black stork any day during spring migration).

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Germany Ducks North America America 186

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Marketed as Vienna lager, Dreher’s beer became an international success, much copied by other European breweries and exported to the Americas by German emigration. And it’s difficult to think of a cozier, more inviting beer for autumn than a crisp, malty pour of Vienna lager.

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Boston Austria Europe Industry 218

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2011

The juveniles were busy testing their wings, flying just above the water in a straight line, landing on the water, then turning around and flying back. v=9fHL7KHIi1c References: 1 Birds of North America Online a. I only saw a few females at Manzanita Lake this year, maybe because we were there so late in the season.

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Ducks North America California Breeding 171

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Although I am pretty confident that this species is not the long-lost Bogota Sunangel or even a Heliangelus, more will be known once DNA testing has been done. I believe the bird to be one of the following: A dark violet color morph of Long-tailed Sylph , a new species of sylph, a new sub-species of Long-tailed Sylph or a hybrid sylph.

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Colombia Family 2011 Species 257

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

The following year, having tested his employer’s indulgence still further, Chapin was back in the Congo, where, from a forest mining camp east of Stanleyville (now Kisangani), he succeeded in obtaining several specimens of what he was to name the ‘Congo Peacock’ (Afropavo congensis, and now also known as the Congo Peafowl).

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Congo Africa Madagascar Kenya 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2018

This heavenly peak, part of the Lago Yojoa Basin, is the largest limestone massif in Central America and home to all manner of montane rain forest birds. Not every vehicle can attain the summit when the roads are washed out–ours failed the test–but, luckily, Esdras Lopez Mejia had no problem ferrying us to the top.

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Honduras Birds Farming America 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. As a test of endurance, as a physical ordeal, it’s both miraculous and monstrous.” As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air. Eighty hours of flying. More than two thousand miles.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

Birding opened up Central America for me in a way that nothing else did. Once you understand the mind-boggling biodiversity of the area beyond toucans and parrots, you realize how special Central America is. Everyone is welcome to participate, especially people outside North America. Perhaps you’ve had the same experience.

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Costa Rica 2011 Deer Birds 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 27, 2011

Each week a new species tried to test the patch for nesting territory. I can watch where I step on my way to my survey spot, the cattle aren’t so cautious, Bobolinks need to be ready to move when the unaware bovine wanders near near the nest. Last year, I had a small fallow patch between two cornfields, barely five acres.

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Birds Cattle Blackbirds North America 164

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

August arrived and I was releasing birds knowing they’d need time to adapt prior to making that long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, headed to South America. That kicked off our One-Eyed Project – we fly and test all one-eyed raptors, and it continues to this day.”. “I’ve Finally, it was just Sophie left.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 249

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Deer 255

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

So, along with Lee, we created a test scenario and recruited 500 people across North America and Europe to imagine themselves in a service failure situation. Four different combinations of the five apology elements were created to test for the best approach. The one clear and consistent winner was test Condition No.3.

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Emotional North America Research 2018 93

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Evaluate your data and the power it provides, then get ready to test your theories. Perform a pilot test. Peform A/B tests with different employees and user groups. Booking.com used A/B testing on its employees to develop many of its tools and processes over an eight-year period. Bank of America did this.

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Groups Industry Experience Experiments 87

Sales and Marketing Management

MARCH 2, 2018

Evaluate your data and the power it provides, then get ready to test your theories. Perform a pilot test. Perform A/B tests with different employees and user groups. Booking.com used A/B testing on its employees to develop many of its tools and processes over an eight-year period. Bank of America did this.

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Groups Industry Experience Experiments 72

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

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2011 Deer Wildlife Birds 140

Animal Person

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Though most people don't think about it this way, when you choose to eat animals or wear animals or use products that were tested on animals or have animal byproducts in them, you are choosing harm. We in the developed world, in mainstream America, do not need to use animals in order to survive or thrive or please our palates.

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Vegan Factory Farming Factory Farm Slaughtered 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

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Burkina Faso 2011 Deer Birds 167

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

There are many of these, survivors of the industrialization of our food supply, in most cities and towns across America. He stated that the department could demand mandatory testing, but that it had to consider what effect that would have on companies as well as consumers.

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New York Times New York Hamburgers Meat Industry 40

SalesFuel

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Back in the eighties, America saw a major transformation. Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Ethical hackers use OSINT to identify weaknesses in systems. International airwaves held secrets, and the Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service was all ears, intercepting and analyzing signals to uncover threats before they surfaced.

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Collecting Culling Ethics Dissection 52

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2014

The Yellow-rumped Warbler ( Setophaga coronata ) complex is one of the most abundant and widespread representatives of the New World warbler family in North America, present in many parts of the United States even through the winter months, when the birds feed on small fruits and other foods, including sap. So Toews et al.

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United States 2011 Guatemala North America 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Tody Motmot is perhaps one of the most charismatic bird species in all of Central America, and Honduras is perhaps one of the best places to see it. Trips Central America cotinga Honduras Pico Bonito' The following day, we paid a visit to the relatively dry Aguan Valley. Photo by James Adams.

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Honduras Monkeys America Birds 168

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I bought a new rucksack yesterday and the first thing I checked when I brought it home was, how easily my spotting scope with a mounted window clamp fits in – test passed with flying colours. So I lowered my threshold to 500 and that worked well… for Costa Rica and South America, that is (especially Peru).

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Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2022

Tap water is not as cold as in Europe (and, I presume, North America), but to be called lukewarm it should be warmer. Regarding the Covid, the usual measures were in place, and no one got it, at least no US, Canada, or French participants who did the mandatory testing at the end of the tour, as required by their home countries.

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Colombia Birds Cooking Fish 263

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

And, then there are the pick-up-dead-birds initiatives in major cities in North America–New York City’s Project Safe Flight, Chicago’s Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, Toronto’s Bird Collision Monitoring Patrols, Washington, D.C.’s ’s Lights Out DC, to name a few.

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New York City Illinois Science Killing 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A Sage Thrasher – a vagrant from western North America and only one of a handful of New York State records – was found on the other side of the Hudson River over in Columbia County in early November. Luckily, something unusual did show up not too far from home – and with just less than two months to go in 2020.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Hunters will be required to pass and ID test. For my new book, due out in 2012 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I’ve been researching sandhill crane hunting. to a high of 11%.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For birders who also drink beer, there’s only one east-west rivalry in the Americas that really matters these days – West Coast IPA versus New England IPA. There was also a certain appeal to bravado in testing one’s mettle by downing the latest “hop bomb”.

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Pelicans India Vermont San Diego 113

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

They agreed, Gabe reports with equanimity, that Alejandra would have an abortion, if the prenatal tests “revealed a significant probability that our gene overlap would limit the child’s prospects.”. But, well aware of the risks of “gene overlap” in parents, they have a plan. What an ugly sentence that is.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 164

Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Make sure you understand the local financial scene because banking in Europe is very different than how it's handled in America and can be a major pain point for U.S. Post some openings on jobs boards in your chosen geography to test the market. firms, including strict customer due diligence regulations.

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Ireland Europe Ethics Laws 72

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There is much to enjoy and appreciate here and I only wish I could have tested out some of these species accounts in pelagic waters before writing about them (sadly, the 10,000 Birds pelagic to Antarctica was canceled this year). 1997), and Gulls of Europe, Asia and North America (Helm, 2004). .; Houghton Mifflin, U.S.),

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Albatross Penguins Family Groups 279

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2012

The real test of hummingbird bonds came in 2004. My three orphans had left for Central America in September 2003. I’ll never forget the day I looked behind me as I road the roaring riding lawnmower, to see a little phalanx of three hummingbirds following over my head. Would they return?

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