10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2017

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. I emailed the authors and asked about their research and their use of eBird data. This includes bird-watching experiences.

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Oregon Washington Chad Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. After securing our passage, I patiently waited for this once-in-a-lifetime experience to a place we have never been and lacked any knowledge of, we were in for a complete surprise.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences. I would also love to have more documentation of the many books, articles, research points, and stories that Dunn relates, at the very least a list of sources. Is all that material on Selkirk needed? Still, I would really love to see this in some form.

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Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy in Birds is organized into two major parts: (1) A detailed, 62-page synthesis of research and theory and (2) “Family Accounts,” 259 pages covering bird families from Struthionidae/Ostriches) to Thraupidae/Tanagers and allies (Clements is the taxonomic authority). It’s not always easy reading.

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Compassion Birds Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2015

The pace with which taxa are restored to species rank through the traditional approach of new, peer-reviewed research is painfully slow, especially in regions where fieldwork is difficult or expensive, particularly the Old World tropics. ” What to do?

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Species Research Humane Birds 266

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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America Squirrels Industry Birds 250

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

And of course, the photos here show a female, as far as I can tell. Of course, this factoid should be presented with a photo of a male, not a female rosefinch. In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. Of course, for the birds involved, this often leads to death.

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Blackbirds Birds Indonesia Bhutan 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2012

Of course, I jest a bit in the above paragraph because as a sometime New Jersey birder I have birded the Delaware Bay and seen sights such as the memorable image below, in which thousands of Red Knots, Dunlins, and Short-billed Dowitchers fly up as if connected telepathically. The visual beauty and textual facts are a strong combination.

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Delaware New Jersey Eggs Medical Research 207

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Her experiences are framed within the larger scientific histories how once common species become endangered, and of how people and organizations have strategized and explored controversial paths to bring their numbers up and nurture them till they fill our skies. Endangered. Extinction. Conservation.

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 180

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

Marybeth Lima’s ‘real life’ work is academic, she is a professor of biological and agricultural engineering as Louisiana State University with research interests in community-based design and service-learning in engineering. ’ What was left to write about? ’ “Is this going to be a collection of essays?

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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Experiments in the field (the famed Asa Wright Nature Center veranda) involving Bananaquits and bananas came up with numbers ranging from 7 to 16, but a tanager always came along to interfere with Bananaquits’ noisy appreciation of their namesake fruit. (2) Which hummingbird was more beautiful—Tufted Coquette or Ruby-topaz Hummingbird? (3)

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Trinidad South America Birds 2011 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

They really appeared to enjoy this, because as soon as they swam back to the rocks they would line up again to repeat the experience. I can imagine myself inside the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest (with the book in my bag), checking every movement, searching for this almost legendary creature and of course jumping in joy when finding it!

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Brazil 2011 Birds Penguins 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2015

It is impossible to say, of course, exactly how different remaining ecosystems will appear 100 or 500 years from now, but we can speculate. Conversely, parts of the world that have traditionally been quite dry may experience more rainfall. So what does climate change mean for birds? Well…it means everything.

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North America San Francisco Suffering California 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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North Dakota Sparrows Birds Blackbirds 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2024

Of course, excellent opportunity to go birding with my friends Brad and Laura. Of course, I made that up. Our internet research showed that somebody in Pine County had all three ( Black, Brown-capped, and Gray-crowned ) Rosy Finches on the feeders in their garden. It is mid-March and I am back in Colorado for meetings.

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Denver Colorado Ducks Mules 189

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Would you like to know about the early days of research on that rare grail, the Ivory Gull ? And just above them all, two Ravens flew in tandem, matching their course and speed, wing tip to wing tip. I live in a spectacularly beautiful place, graced by opportunities that few others get to experience. Know about? How lucky am I?

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Lions Game Birds Dogs 195

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Eventually, of course, the wild turkeys in the entire Eastern region of the US were mostly or entirely wiped out, and it may well be that European stocks contributed to the reintroduction of Turkeys in the New World. The Spanish Colonial Experience and Domestic Animals. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. Speller, C.,

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 244

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2014

There were ten students in total that had signed up for the spring break “Seabirds” course in Dry Tortugas National Park, and after long drives down from North Carolina we had all made it right on time. My first instinct when something bites me, of course, is to yelp and yank my hand away with all possible speed.

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Florida Birds Groups Breeding 216

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2013

As novice birder David Sibley put it a few years ago, “A proposal to split Western Scrub-Jay recently failed an early vote in the checklist committee for want of more research in the contact zone.” Of course, there are other potential splits…and maybe even potential lumps.

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San Francisco Fox Sparrows California 208

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

(SOPI) is the leading ornithological organization and it performs research, education, and outreach. Much of the research regarding Caribbean ecology and ornithology has been conducted in Puerto Rico. There are arguments for adding all territories, but experience demonstrates that the ABA moves glacially when it comes to the ABA Area.

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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Hawaii United States 196

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The experience was marvelous — but it also weighed heavily on me. Here’s a diagram, available on the Audubon site , that compares its 2000 range with its anticipated 2080 range: Only 1 percent of the bird’s breeding range remains stable between 2000 and 2080 if global warming continues on its current course.

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Species Los Angeles Science 2000 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2011

Golf courses, swimming pools, restaurants and a diverse collection of accommodation options. Universities like Harvard, Columbia and Cornell regularly use the research facility. The one exception is Punta Cana Resort and Club in the Dominican Republic. This is not a birding lodge. Far from it. Punta Cana even manages the airport!

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Dominican Republic 2011 Deer Kuwait 228

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2013

And, in a very lovely section in the middle of the book, she describes the life cycle of the cahow, informing evocative passages about their nocturnal courtship and flight with recent research findings about how seabirds are able to function—eat, sleep, navigate home. These are magical experiences.

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Rats Breeding Birds 2012 197

SalesFuel

MAY 21, 2024

Edelman Research suggests that businesses are wasting some of their investment in this area. They will learn how to close a deal by understanding your experiences. For example, our research shows that 41% of sales professionals have a crystal-clear idea of what their manager expects. Of course, achieving goals matters.

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Industry Research Game Experiments 111

Animal Person

APRIL 14, 2009

research) rally in defense of his community (he considers himself a proxy for the entire UCLA community). He speaks of the "mixed message of the animal rights community" that animals are so much like us, yet not enough like us to experiment on. Then he and the interviewer describe some of the experiments. No surprise there.

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Animal Liberation Front UCLA Animal Liberation Primates 100

Animal Person

JUNE 8, 2009

Beloved family pet Dalmatian, Pepper, is stolen, and after several weeks of searching is discovered to have been experimented on at a hospital and died on the table when researchers tried to implant her with an experimental cardiac pacemaker. By the end of my time as researcher, I was performing behavioral experiments on humans.

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Animal Welfare Monkeys Animal Welfare Act Vivisection 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

Of course, almost none of these questions are asked directly but carefully gleaned by weaving the conversation along in a totally friendly manner, trying to make sure you have all the information necessary to make your client have an unforgettable experience at Cristalino. ” I would usually ask.

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Otters Parrots Birds Brazil 160

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Knowing this, we were certainly far from disappointed by our experience but we of course all dreamed of a closer view. However most recent research places them amongst the Panthera.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Olson who in 1986 published a paper describing his experience finding, reading, and researching Bloxam’s original notes. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. You can see a PDF of that paper here. (I What a horror! What a disaster!

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Killing Rats Cooking Norway 174

10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2017

In a time of little published information about the rainforests of Central and South America aside from scientific journal articles and the works of 19th-century naturalists, the “little green book,” as it was called, became a must-read amongst nature-oriented travelers and researchers. is remarkable.

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South America Ecuador Reptiles America 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Written in the tradition of the classic Hawks in Flight , but very much a product of the experiences of its birder authors, this is a groundbreaking book that offers a new way of identifying migratory birds at sea to all of us who observe the waters of eastern North America with expectation and excitement.

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Ducks Groups North America North Dakota 247

Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But research and case studies confirm AI’s capacity to drive transformative change in the sales function. Over the course of a seven-week A/B test scenario, overall sales increased 4 percent, which extrapolates to a $154 million annual impact in the company that conducted the test. How AI Will Change Salespeople’s Lives.

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Science Adoptable Research Humane 127

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

I realized a curious thing while researching some of the creatures in this guide–some of the common names given for the flying fish appear to have originated with co-author Steve N.G. Of course, that picture needs to be updated on a regular basis (there is no longer one record of Amazon Kingfisher!),

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Pennsylvania Texas Whales Whaling 189

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 5, 2011

The author, Jeffery Masson, draws on recent scientific research, and of course his own personal experiences through his bond with his beloved dog Benjy to find out why, we have such close bonds with dogs. Turns out there are very good reasons for it, and those reasons span the decades!

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For Animals Animal Wyoming Dogs 100

SalesFuel

AUGUST 13, 2024

This focus marks a shift from when hiring emphasized college degrees or years of experience. Of course, candidates might stretch the truth about their skills. Personalizing the Work Experience One of the most contentious issues in 2024 centers around work location. The COVID-19 pandemic opened Pandora’s box.

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Vet Raised Experience Experiments 105

Animal Person

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Is it true that the least I can do is support the engineering of animals who experience less unpleasantness than they would have had they not been engineered that way? My objection is: Why do such research when you don't need to? Why kill and maim and waste taxpayer dollars--or any dollars--on such things?

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Factory Farming Factory Farm Animal Factory 100