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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

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Found throughout South America in ever-dwindling numbers these extremely beautiful birds – threatened by habitat destruction and collection for the wild bird trade – are often difficult to see and hard to find. These threats are further exacerbated by the naturally low reproductive rates of these cavity-nesting birds.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

“Whether it’s this year, 10 years from now or 100 years from now, a marketer’s success or failure will come down to one crucial skill: the ability to be an engaging and persuasive storyteller,” stated Amit Bivas, head of marketing at Optimove, makers of software that collects data to enhance customer relationships. Stories get a revival.

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4 Forever Changes Transforming B2B Revenue Activities

Sales and Marketing Management

Will these demos then steer prospects to a custom portal on a website where they are invited to collect what they find and share out to their buying team members? Takeaway: ?Sales Sales training and enablement must become buyer enablement regardless of the channel and preferred buyer experience. Takeaway: ?Sales

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The first half describes the problem (why birds hit windows, the scale of the deaths, scientific research, what happens when birds strike windows) and the second half discusses what to do about it (community and worldwide education, window deterrent solutions, legal mandates and building codes, citizen science–what individuals can do).

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Why do birds living near Chernobyl have smaller brains?

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It is a very nice bit of science. The hypothesis being tested is that high ambient levels of radiation will cause greater production of reactive oxygen in birds, which in turn will stress neural tissue growth processes resulting in smaller brains. Corey has mentioned the Chernobyl study before.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

10,000 Birds

The best female strategy seems to be to mate with as many of the males as possible, as this means more help in feeding the chicks by all the potential fathers (I guess the fathers do not have easy access to paternity tests). Being a management consultant, I am well-versed in the science and art of b *g. ” Full iteration!

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