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Teaching Ornithology in High Schools

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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. In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.” In other words, a “spark class” rather than a “spark bird.”

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

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Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism. This is the title for the person who lives for both literature and nature. Whittaker’s research aims to disprove the centuries-old assumption that birds do not have a sense of smell.

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314 U.S. Bird Species Threatened — Many with Extinction — by Global Warming

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The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. They had two world-class datasets on which to draw the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, and the North American Breeding Bird Survey. Butchart is head of science at BirdLife International and chairs the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group.

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eBird Economics: How Much Would You Pay to See Birds?

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How much do birders value a birding experience? But there are few transactions that can be analyzed to determine how much value birding experiences, themselves, provide to a birder. This includes bird-watching experiences. Some aspects of birding can be calculated and studied economists. Q: Why study birders and why use eBird?

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Birding By Impression: A Book Review

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GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* I like Birding by Impression.

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Manage Smarter 249 — Dr. Jean Oursler, How Your Sense of Urgency Can Be Killing Your Results

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in business psychology and is considered one of the country’s top business consultants, a top-rated speaker, and a world class business performance coach. EOS, which stands for Entrepreneurial Operating System, addresses the major frustrations that business owners and their leadership teams often experience.

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Health powers everything else

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There’s plenty of science behind the connection between sleep and productivity, a good diet and better time management, or exercise and a positive mindset. If you enjoy science (me, not so much), you can hop on the Internet and go down a lot of rabbit holes. In fact, we all do.

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