10,000 Birds

JULY 14, 2011

I, like many of you, eagerly await the release of the AOU 52nd checklist supplement, even though these days, the contents are already pretty well known in advance. And so it’s July, which for this North American birder means a couple of things: 1. A Speckled Mousebird ( Colius striatus ) poses in Nairobi.

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Madagascar Louisiana Penguins Germany 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2017

Then, in one of my freshmen science classes, there was a discussion about extinct species, which then lead to the topic of threatened, or endangered species, and what we could do to help out. After several hours of research, my deep appreciation for this wonderful shorebird has not diminished.

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Oregon Defenders Of Wildlife Endangered Species Mexico 140

Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 19, 2017

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions When it comes to enabling salespeople to be great “in the moment” across the different types of selling situations they face, the technology is there. The bad news: Messaging content and skills training approaches are not always present. That’s the good news.

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Research Science Experience Experiments 85

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2016

To an intermediate-level birder like me, the material in Better Birding –highly focused, detailed, based on the latest research and years of field experience– is daunting, but also fascinating. Sullivan are birders as well as writers, researchers, and organizational administrators, and this makes a big difference.

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Birds Groups 2015 North America 190

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 10, 2019

New research we conducted with Professor Nick Lee of Warwick Business School focuses on the apology because unless those three recovery activities are communicated effectively in the right apology framework, you reduce the possibility that everyone inside your affected client company will appreciate and give you credit for your efforts.

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Emotional North America Research 2018 93

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

That means they are engaging with your content further down the funnel. As a result, your content can’t be just a companion to a sales-led customer conversation?— Buyers are interacting with content much further down the buying journey. Author: TIM RIESTERER Sales training and enablement leaders, it’s time to level up.

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Sharks Raised Research Adoptable 79

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In the coming years, look for companies to better use technology to crowdsource more of their readiness content. To do this effectively, they’ll need tools that make it easy for reps to share their knowledge through video, and turn the video into centrally accessible, searchable learning content.

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2018 Agenda Experience Experiments 91

Sales and Marketing Management

APRIL 9, 2020

In research conducted by Wharton Business School Professor Katherine Milkman, she and her colleagues discovered that new habits are more effective anytime you have a fresh start. Her research suggests that fresh starts help people to stick with their new habits. And sales reps quickly learn the end-of-quarter dates by heart.

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Research Science Game Collecting 71

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

The science behind storytelling. Research behind the persuasiveness of storytelling is well-publicized. Storytelling is enjoying something of a resurgence, particularly in this era of content marketing. “Nobody cares about how everything works, and yet so many people try to sell that way. The way to do that is with a story.”.

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Emotional Rats Morals 2014 90

Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Purchasing decisions now involve increased touchpoints through multiple channels, more self-driven research, and less reliance on salespeople. When it comes to reports and key performance indicators, many companies turn to their data science, business intelligence or sales analysis departments. Barriers to measuring ROI.

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Experience Experiments Campaign Science 66

Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some may have even tanked their performance just to be taken out of contention. Third, through conducting its internal research, it found that they weren’t going to please 100 percent of their employees with recognition efforts. High-performing employees were frantically making calls, begging not to be nominated for this award.

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Family Research Groups Science 70

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. THIS IMAGE NOT IN THE BOOK. Schulman, 2023.

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Science Illinois Investigation 2006 260

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. They are by Karlson, from his years as a research biologist in Alaska, and Ted Swem, a U.S.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

UNLESS that is you get yourself down to the internationally-renowned Tambopata Research Centre in southern Peru where literally hundreds of macaws (and other parrots) congregate around a 50 meter high clay bank. Each bird, regardless of species, seems perfectly content to wait for the other to make the first move toward the colpa.

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Peru Parrots 2011 Deer 255

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2014

This research suggests that the boom isn’t due to an influx of newcomers, but rather because more local birds are flourishing and successfully rearing families. Specifically, researchers found that in EAB-infested areas, the birds preferred ash trees to other trees, and seemed to favor the ashes with the most severe damage.

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Woodpeckers Illinois Chicago Kentucky 273

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Having warned to her theme she introduces her villain of the piece, the AMNH researcher Chris Filardi, who collected a kingfisher. Throughout his professional career, Chris has maintained a commitment to bridging his research interests with grassroots conservation. Science doesn’t work that way! Science Schmience.

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Collecting Papua New Guinea Science Guinea 219

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2014

The Introduction’s sections on “Migration and Vagrancy in Birds” and “Where do North American Vagrants Come From” are the heart of the book, representing the authors’ thoughts on vagrancy patterns, based on years of experience, past ornithological research, and their own data analyses.

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North America America Birds United States 263

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Though it is marketed as a “Guide to Every Family” there is no table of contents to the families, just listings of the introductory pages for each suborder. The back-of-the-book material gets more detailed treatment in the table of contents than the core of the book! They just look so content and stable!

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Turtles Tortoises Family Terrapins 262

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Species are arranged by family and genus along taxonomic lines, but not always in accordance with the very latest molecular DNA research. This is great, I only wish there was some kind of index or table of contents to this feature. Damselflies first, then dragonflies. William Haber is from the United States, receiving his Ph.D.

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Costa Rica North America Family America 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. He effectively brings his point across by presenting facts and images and a little bit of hard science.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 197

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

The photographs are from VIREO, the ornithological image collection associated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, which licenses bird photographs to many guides and reference books. I am particularly happy to see that the bird communication section includes recent research on singing female birds.

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North America America California Condor Birds 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2023

Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not. ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. . ” Meaning: Martens did not do his homework and does not do real science. In contrast, the paper by Martens et al.

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Hamburgers China Science Birds 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2023

The latter paper makes me glad not to be involved in ornithological research, as it casually mentions that “Munias proved difficult to maintain in captivity, would not eat, and generally died within a day or two.”

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Zebras Thailand Philippines Birds 246

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 246

SalesFuel

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A survey from Integral Ad Science (IAS) , produced with YouGov, tapped into 250 media buyers and sellers. Specifically, they believe that social media (43%) and digital video (40%) can be easily used to generate fake content. SalesFuel - Sales Intelligence | Marketing Research | Sales Hiring | Credibility | Sales Enablement

Game 64

Game Branding Science Industry 64

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2015

The contents are a balance of the visual, the factual, and a form of participant-observation, oriented towards people who know little about penguin habitats, life cycles and conservation issues. Science and Conservation , the second section, presents two-page summaries of the diverse research being done around the world about penguins.

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Penguins New Zealand South Africa Albatross 246

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2018

Describing gull plumage is a combination of science, graphic art, and visual metaphor. The Table of Contents is the best starting point for finding the gull you want, and with 61 species accounts, listed with common and scientific name, it’s pretty easy to scan and pinpoint a name.

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