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2017 Bird Images

10,000 Birds

As simple as that might sound, over the course of a full year, I will shoot more than 20,000 photos, While that seems like a lot, it works out to about 400 per weekend, if I were to be in the field 50 of 52 weekends of the year. Then the culling process begins. The best 12 images of the previous year.

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Five Things To Do When It Is Too Cold To Bird

10,000 Birds

Of course not! Cull (and organize) your photos. Though temperatures have rebounded from the nadir and were temporarily above freezing here in New York City, the mercury has plummeted again and long outings out of doors are distinctly less pleasant than they would be if it were T-shirt weather. Rate photos in eBird.

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9 Ways to Get the Most from Sales Video Coaching

Sales and Marketing Management

Reps and their managers can see what their buyers will see, and learn from it – making course corrections before those high-stakes conversations. Sales coaching like this has many documented benefits – from reinforcing training, to culling and promoting best practices, to even positively impacting the bottom line. Here’s How it Works.

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Robert Young on Killing Animals

Animal Ethics

For instance, to kill animals which have these similarities to human beings in the course of pointless or duplicative experimentation, in the course of providing cosmetics, furs and other items readily producible without such killings, or merely for sport, is morally wrong according to the account I have proposed.

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Nature is Tough

10,000 Birds

Of course, injured animals have a very difficult time making it in the wild. Peregrine Falcons are excellent at culling the weak. From a symbol (to me) of resilience to a falcon’s plaything in a few hours. This is why predators are generally unwilling to attack anything that has a chance at all.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. on a daily basis, both legally and otherwise. The logic of this is ridiculous.

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Hornbills of Sabah

10,000 Birds

Fortunately, Singapore is not Florida, where Mr. DeSantis would probably have the two birds described in a paper culled (though the paper talks about “aberrant” behavior, which is a phrase Mr. DeSantis would probably feel comfortable with). Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.