10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over with the intention of writing about some of the issues that could be considered the root cause of the disagreement. You see, the bird was collected for scientific study.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2019

I immediately noticed the shop was selling Safe Flight IPA by Kings County Brewers Collective, a beer I desperately wanted to review for Birds and Booze last year but couldn’t find for sale anywhere in Albany. Kings County Brewers Collective: Safe Flight IPA. Good birding and happy drinking! Five out of five feathers (Outstanding).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The Moustached Kingfisher was known by only three samples– one female “collected” in the 1920’s, the other two females “collected” in the 1950’s, according to an Audubon Magazine article. The justification was ridiculously laughable: in order to further study the species. Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song?

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4 The Love Of Animals

JANUARY 18, 2019

When we were offered a chance to read the new book “Love Can Be: A Literary Collection About Our Animals” we couldn’t wait to dive into it. Not only does it celebrate the love we share with animals, proceeds go … Continue reading →

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The post Turn Data Collection Into Lead Generation appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management. Getting leads isn't enough. You must be able to amass reliable data that’s unique to your organization and translate it all into actionable intel that will close deals.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2018

A final thought: whether you think collective nouns are fascinating or idiotic , the more fundamental question is, why do they exist at all or, rather, how did they come to be? In short, the Birder Murders are getting better and better as they come off the presses, with A Shimmer of Hummingbirds the most dazzling of all — so far.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

In that deviant spirit, this week’s beer is Mash Up the Jam, a new dry-hopped sour beer by Collective Arts Brewing of Hamilton, Ontario. I’m glad that Collective Arts Brewing agrees. Collective Arts Brewing: Mash Up the Jam. Your move, Budweiser.). So drink up. Good birding and happy drinking!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Torreón and two other cities form a metropolitan area of some million and a half inhabitants, collectively known as la Laguna. Torreón is a city in the center of the Mexican Plateau, a huge highland basin in the north of Mexico that lies between the western and eastern Sierra Madre mountain ranges.

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AVMA News

MAY 31, 2023

The AVMA maintains a list of individuals and organizations that collect unused textbooks, journals, instruments, equipment, and other supplies for use by veterinary professionals in various countries.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2021

He noted that this new bird had longer bills and “darker loral and auricular regions” than the mainland Brown-headed Nuthatch, and collected two of them for science. That makes the two study skins that Bond collected even more significant, Weckstein says. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department.

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SalesFuel

AUGUST 5, 2024

But first, you need to use the data you collected to know where to place the targeted ads. Audience Segments: Marketers everywhere have begun using AI for content creation , optimization and data collection. Luckily, the more consumers interact with your client, the more breadcrumbs they leave to follow and build profiles on.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Observers have noted these colorful crows flying up to 18km to and fro from an old oakwood when collecting acorns. They are normally shy and relatively secretive woodland birds, but at this time of the year when they are in full acorn-collecting mode, they become much bolder and more conspicuous. It’s a different matter in the spring.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2024

This is thought to be the cup from which Jesus Christ drank during the Last Supper, which was then used to collect Jesus’s blood at the crucifixion. Lower down, wherever water collected and sunlight reached down, were wildflowers and European Greenfinches taking advantage of the water. The Treasury is shown behind them.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2024

“Islands in the Sun” is about Macaronesia, the collective term used to define the Atlantic Islands of the Azores, Madeira, the Canaries and Cape Verde. We have been organizing these events annually since 1997 and the conference, which starts on Thursday 4th July, carries the title that I have chosen for this article.

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SalesFuel

MARCH 21, 2024

Data Collection Fuels the Client Experience Big box retailers and grocery stores are masters of data capture. Interestingly, only 4% of businesses say they don’t collect personal data. Developing an agile, adaptable approach to customer surveys and the data you collect needs to be a priority.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2023

Next is the already noted “Illustrated Glossary” is a unique collection of photographs and drawings illustrating scientific terms for parts of the mouth and beak; bones of the leg, feet, and wings; feather tracts; feather development; as well as the standard bird topography diagrams.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

Diard apparently got cheated by Stamford Raffles, if I read the Wikipedia entry correctly: “In December 1818, Thomas Stamford Raffles invited them to accompany him on his journeys and pursue their collections in places … they left with him on the basis that would equally share the collected animals.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Because one lucky birder got to collect the poop with the hope it can be used to get the bird’s DNA and that way we’ll know what we saw, provided we can find a lab that will do the work and hasn’t closed due to COVID. Oh, and I was the lucky birder who collected the poop. Fortunately, the bird pooped. Why was this fortunate?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

They vary in construction and there is also a wide variation in the items that they collect. Traditionally the Great Bowerbirds collect mostly white and green items, but this varies by location. Around the township of Broome the Great Bowerbirds collect both white and green items , which are both natural and man-made.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The RSPCA collected these signatures leading up to the the 7th World Congress on Alternatives & Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Rome. How many of them actually see these animals in the labs? That's why so many people don't want to talk about these issues. It upsets them. But their silence and cluelessness is essentially their consent.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 1, 2024

A Light-vented Bulbul collecting nest building material – or is it for nest renovation already? The Silver-throated Bushtit is a species in which the juvenile birds seem to be more colorful than the adults, in a reversal of the typical situation. Not so for the Little Grebe.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Leaders with a broader vision can create a sense of collective ownership and commitment, leading to increased productivity and success. Sales and marketing teams have different metrics and sometimes different priorities that can make working seamlessly together a challenge.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Not only have we completed Birding Tourism February , but we’ve also collectively made it through what is usually one of the least exciting birding months of the calendar year. Congratulations!

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This book is part of the Lynx Illustrated Checklists collection created from the wealth of data, illustrations and maps compiled for the Handbook of the Mammals of the World (HMW) series which has been distilled into handbooks that can be easily carried into the field. Christoph Schwitzer & Wes Sechrest Weight 0.4 kg Dimensions 14 × 22.8

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

We’re sending a team to collect his recently revoked birder card posthaste. Still, I’d count the outing a success, despite not entirely avoiding the bad bugs. Mike, on the other hand, was too busy doing non-birder things to actually see any birds. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2021

Among the 23,000 vertebrate specimens collected by the six-year expedition were many birds, but on returning to New York two years later, it became clear that none of their skins sported a feather remotely like the one Chapin had acquired. “But Curious as to the plume’s origins, the American immediately asked if he could keep it.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In addition to offering updates on taxonomy and other research, profiles of the islands’ (nonhuman) inhabitants, readable explanations of the ecosystem, a brief and sometimes amusing history of the islands’ human habitation, and stunning photographic images, it also includes Kricher’s knowledgeable, witty, and affectionate account (..)

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SalesFuel

OCTOBER 28, 2024

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.

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Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 21, 2022

Spring, the season of renewal, is a great time to remind your sales reps to embrace their personal power and recognize how it can be deployed for collective collaborations. The post Tis the Season to Renew with Personal Power to Achieve Fierce Sales appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. .”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2023

They are leaving it somewhere and the Torresian Crows are collecting it up and bringing it to our garden! Torresian Crow finishing the Vegemite bread We have come to the conclusion that someone in our neighbourhood is being given Vegemite bread and they don’t like it. This is continuing to happen!

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2019

As usual there is a beautifully constructed bower made of sticks and a great collection of items to attract the female bird. What is surprising is that despite being surrounded by houses the birds have mostly collected natural items. The Great Bowerbirds like to collect both white and green. Parsley among the items.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

On a positive note, it makes it easier for those male hornbills that do not like kids to focus on what they are good at (collecting fruit and handing them to the wife through a slit in the hole). Arriving at the nesting hole. Regurgitating fruit. Being clumsy while regurgitating fruit. Leaving the nesting hole.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ). The Wikipedia entry for Pierre Médard Diard ( 1794 – 1863), a French naturalist and explorer, sounds like he was cheated by Sir Raffles.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2023

This federal tax immunity can deprive such governments of property tax revenues that would have been collected had the land been owned by any other entity. To mitigate the impact of a reduced tax base, the federal government makes payments in lieu of taxes ( PILT ) to affected local governments.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

All were started from collected seeds. My “tree nursery” is a collection of unsterilized, used plastic pots, filled with homemade compost (AKA aged kitchen and garden trash), placed in the dappled shade of my garden’s trees. But I want more! So here are some of this year’s seedlings.

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