10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It was a pleasure to make these observations at the same time I was reading The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think , Jennifer Ackerman’s new book about the diversity and complexity of bird behavior.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book. Hauber and artist Tony Angell fulfills this goal beautifully and was the factor that motivated me to review this book. The essays also touch on conservation, though less that the amount I would have assumed would be in a book that is part of an “Earth Day” series.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. My only wish is that the book included photographs.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. It’s a big subject that has been embraced by biologists Barbara Ballentine and Jeremy Hyman in Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication, a largish, book recently published by Comstock Publishing Associates, an imprint of Cornell University Press.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

This is the charm of Lima’s book. The book focuses on two listing events: her 2012 Louisiana Big Year and her 2016 Louisiana 300 Year. The book is structured in a way that made much more sense after I read it than as I was reading it. .’ But, in Chapter Three the book takes on more shape. ” I wondered.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

Fortunately, with a prescience that’s a little scary, David Allen Sibley has created a book perfect for beginning birders (and the rest of us): What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing–What Birds Are Doing, and Why. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

This is the book you will want to give to everyone in your life who has said ‘I’d like to bird too, but ….(fill Not only is Nate a birding and blogging colleague, but Mike Bergin, 10,000 Birds co-publisher, has written the Foreword and I have been threatened with all sorts of birder-type punishment if I give this book a bad review.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2015

GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. The result is a different kind of book. The main question for me isn’t whether this is indeed a revolutionary approach, but rather: what does this book offer that is different?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

There is a long list of articles and books on how to feed birds in your yard. So, I was happy to see the publication of a book on all aspects of wild bird feeding—history, culture, and economics. It is a serious book with a friendly attitude. It turned out, many people. million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2019

It’s never too late or too early to buy a children’s book about birds. It’s been a few years since my last roundup of children’s bird books, and children’s book writers, illustrators and publishers continue to produce picture books that feature avian protagonists. First, the board books.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2019

But, sometimes an appreciation of birds and birding requires more than a reference book with images of birds and facts about their identifying field marks. There are large avian handbooks and small ‘how-to bird’ guides, and quite a few excellent books of both types have been published. And, each essay tells a story.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It took me a while to wrap my mind around the concept of Birds and People , Mark Cocker and David Tipling’s book that, in 592 pages, explores the intersection of just that—birds and us. Still, I found it a little disjointing that a book has been written about our relationship with birds. So, I just sit here, amazed at this book.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

And so, I turn to Better Birding: Tips, Tools & Concepts for the Field , the new book by George L. This is a very different book from what I expected, less of a handbook and more of a comprehensive identification text on 24 groups of birds, presented in words and photographs. Armistead and Brian L. Authors George L.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

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 did you come up with the idea for the book? The book is darkly funny.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In the years since Dan Pink released his book “Drive,” some have struggled to apply Pink’s formula of autonomy, mastery and purpose to their sales reps. Because from the beginning, Starbucks has offered an experience worth valuing. Separability:  Reps can think of the trip to Hawaii as a unique experience.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

It is not a book for every birder, but it will be a fascinating read for those who love albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels–you know, tubenoses–as well as penguins, gannets, cormorants, and pretty much every bird family that spends most of its life at sea. Bruce Pearson is the book illustrator.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birding can be enjoyed at various levels of intensity, from casual birdwatching in one’s backyard to more dedicated pursuits that involve keeping birding lists, participating in birding competitions, or contributing to citizen science projects. Analysis : This is a fine summary and it even cites the book and the movie.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Life Along the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Gateway to a Million Shorebirds , by Lawrence Niles, Joanna Burger, and Amanda Dey, is a book with a mission. The numbers, as detailed in this book, are alarming: the horseshoe crab harvest grew from less than 100,000 in 1992 to over 2.5 million in the late 1990’s.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Manker’s thesis is that ornithology is an excellent gateway to students becoming science majors in college and, more broadly and longer-term, conservation-minded citizens. No publisher wants to publish a book that can’t be sold. However, for there to be an audience to sell it to there needs to be high school ornithology classes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. What I mostly look for in this book is how to understand those behaviours, how to interpret them. How did I know that? “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2012

How to Be a Better Birder is a very different kind of birding book, and, once you think about it, the perfect book to be written at this particular moment in the birding universe. He writes about how experienced birders think, and how they draw on the sciences of weather, geography, and ecology to analyze where the birds will be.

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4 The Love Of Animals

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Well, a dog named Chaser and her beloved owner “Pop-pop” are challenging what science thinks about dogs and language with a vocabulary of 1000 words! In the book, Chaser : Unlocking the Genius of the Dog Who Knows a Thousand Words , we follow the progress of a border collie as she learns the names of various toys.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. This has allowed me to move from having an opinion to owning the truth in all that I say, and being invariably correct in all that I do, regardless of what others say or write – be it in casual conversations, books, or in scientific publications.

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Goats Indonesia Science Experience 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Long story short, the only way I could figure out securing a cabin for myself and my husband, Erik, was to book a trip with Rockjumper, a birding tour company based in South Africa and a supporter of Birdlife South Africa. Regardless, we made it Marion and all else added to the experience. Our Flock to Marion was no different.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

I knew he was also a former Marvel comic book writer and editor, but did not know that he also, unsurprisingly, had a history of involvement in LGBTQ and Black rights advocacy. It is a skillfully, beautifully written book about finding joy and spirituality in nature and birds. It’s a book we all should read.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Their experiences highlighted how hiring managers can do better regardless of generation and how onboarding casts a long shadow for how employees feel about a company. Her calendar was booked with coworker meetings, lunch with senior leaders, and a project estimated to take up the entire first week. What worked. What didn’t work.

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Bats Science Experience Experiments 48

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 22, 2020

This is the time to bring your long-held desires to the surface, to rewrite the book on how your reps are rewarded, deciding on the metrics that really matter, the types of clients you’re willing to accept and, on a broader note, the business you want to be in. He is also the co-founder of the podcast Behavioral Grooves.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 26, 2019

Put on your science hat and ask some questions about your territories: How well did a particular message fly with each audience? It’s a form of social proof, a powerful tool extolled by Robert Cialdini, the author of the best-selling book “Influence.” Marketers find insights in the data because they look for it. So can sales managers.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2011

You’d think, then, that applying science to philosophy by studying the evolutionary underpinnings of thought and behavior across species would be right up my alley. The temptation is even stronger for popularizers, who have to condense and choose a focus that will appeal to the book-buying public.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The citizen science aspect is a big hit with many users, and eBirding areas with little existing data can be fun as well. Flying around in an airplane or taking a sprawling roadtrip is absolutely the exact opposite of “green” birding, but as a bird junkie, you gotta get around if you want to experience new places and new things.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Wait–that adds up to 290 species, but the book only covers 283. page discoloration from my imperfect scanning, not the book). I know how intense some birders can be), I can tell you from experience that there are some exquisite, stunning odonates flying around there. BACK OF BOOK MATERIAL. SPECIES ACCOUNTS.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

Black, whose best-selling book “No More Cold Calling,” promotes revenue growth through referrals, says you won’t get introduced to prospective customers unless you have a solid business solution and a means to relay that. The science behind storytelling. If you want to connect with people?—?and and isn’t that our goal in sales?—?a

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Though this is a book written for non-scientists, some of this material may initially intimidate readers. The bulk of the book covers the ecology, behavior, and distribution of the 14 families of living turtles. The photographs are eye-catching and one of the best parts of the book. 84 © Getty Images/Resschke, p.

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

Any doubt I had about the need for a book about rare birds in the United States And Canada were wiped out on a Sunday evening in early February with two birding friends. I had just started reading it, but I knew that this was the book my birding friends, in fact all North American birders who are fascinated by vagrants, have been waiting for.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2023

The second thing to note is that this is an excellent and courageous book that tackles a group of birds whose field identification has stumped the most skilled birders. The book expands field guide boundaries with its narrow focus on two genera (groups) with a bonus Tufted Flycatcher thrown in for good measure. known-identity).”**

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