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Goliath Herons at Lake Panic

10,000 Birds

The bird life of Kruger National Park appears to be distilled into a small area surrounding the hide and they seem oblivious to the observers with their battery of lenses poking out from the wooden building. As the name suggests, the Goliath Heron is the world’s biggest member of the Ardea family.

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The Future of Birding Field Guides is Digital

10,000 Birds

This is the first entry in a three-part series discussing those predictions: Almost every prediction about bird field and reference guides agrees that the future is digital and portable, featuring full multimedia capability … I think the future of field guides is advancing the digital versions. The future definitely will be electronic.

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The quest for more purposeful meetings

Sales and Marketing Management

Your brain can’t run at 100 percent on a 10 percent battery. SMM: You refer to something called “the new ROI,” leaving a meeting happier, healthier and does the motivation carry over to the workplace. That’s as valuable as sitting in a session.

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Animal Advocates' Successes Have Factory Farmers Running Scared

Animal Ethics

For example, "free roaming chickens" conjures up images of happy chickens running free and unfettered all about the barnyard, when in fact the label "free roaming chickens" just means chickens that were not raised in battery cages. Calling an inhumane practice "humane" does not make that practice humane.

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The quest for more purposeful meetings

Sales and Marketing Management

Your brain can’t run at 100 percent on a 10 percent battery. SMM: You refer to something called “the new ROI,” leaving a meeting happier, healthier and does the motivation carry over to the workplace. That’s as valuable as sitting in a session.

Agenda 48
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The quest for more purposeful meetings

Sales and Marketing Management

Your brain can’t run at 100 percent on a 10 percent battery. SMM: You refer to something called “the new ROI,” leaving a meeting happier, healthier and does the motivation carry over to the workplace. That’s as valuable as sitting in a session.

Agenda 48
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John Greenleaf Whittier’s “What The Birds Said”

10,000 Birds

Many of his works include references to avifauna, specifically blackbirds and thrushes. John Greenleaf Whittier was deeply religious, but at the same time he was remarkably reverent towards the environment. His poems rhapsodize about woods, water, and pastoral settings. He was also enamored of birds.

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