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Birding Technology – The New Citizen Science

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Which is bad news for someone like me who still struggles with the fact that bats are mammals. But one of the most important aspects of these advances in new-age birding is the fact that they have grown hand-in-hand with the almost exponential growth in citizen science. Clever buggers those real scientists.

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Three Interesting Things

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But did you know that there is a bat that specializes in eating birds that are migrating at night? Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky. But researchers have now found evidence of a giant European bat that is plucking migrating birds out of the night sky. Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C.

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Christian Science Monitor Calls for Endangered Species Hour

Critter News

I like this opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor which calls for an "Endangered Species Hour." The Christian Science Monitor rightly points out that citizens and consumers need to get involved in endangered species protection, because at the CITES level, it's all about money and international politics.

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Interesting Ads In The Wildlife Industry

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And when it comes to field work, you can’t beat some of my office mates, like this above Indigo Bunting who serenades me when I’m changing data cards and batteries in bat detectors. And can I point out how weird it is to see the word “weapon” applied to wildlife sciences. But back to the ads.

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Birding the Datang area, Yunnan

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Unfortunately, I cannot judge at all how solid the science of this paper is (instinctively – being a chemist who has robust exposure to all kinds of toxic chemicals in the lab – I tend to think of such studies as likely coming from people permanently wearing aluminum foil hats, but I may well be totally wrong).

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Onboarding has long-term impacts

Sales and Marketing Management

You want them to build confidence and get a small win right off the bat. Tim Houlihan is chief behavioral strategist at Behavior Alchemy, LLC, blending applied behavioral science with experience and knowledge. They passed the interviews, so give them a chance to do the work. Confidence goes a long way. Don’t flub it. Online Bonus:?Of

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Poop From The Front End Of The Bird

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I stuffed it in my pocket and decided to take it to Richard Oehlenschlager at the Science Museum of Minnesota. But the jawbone…that was from a bat! Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. It was either a big brown bat or a hoary bat.

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