Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 3, 2019

When it comes to hiring, training, managing and coaching salespeople, there is actually a formula for success with some science behind it. Let’s face it, telling a duck that it has to fly like an eagle ultimately just ends up frustrating the duck. The Value of Predictive Analytics.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Indeed, sustainable hunting of ducks heps fund the NWR network, and helps protect places like the Farallon Islands, which are so vulnerable they can’t even sustain non-extractive visits from the best meaning of bird loving visitors.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc. Avian science and conservation are well covered by large and well-financed national non-profits. Secondly, the ABA should increase and formalize its advocacy for birders.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2012

And can I point out how weird it is to see the word “weapon” applied to wildlife sciences. And the weapons don’t stop there.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Separating ducks and coots is one thing, but separating hawks and falcons? Some field guides would eventually follow as well, though I think changes like this could start driving more field guide authors and publishers away from following strict taxonomic order. I think that would be a tough sell.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

And, as I have mentioned before , under-birded countries like Mexico provide lots of opportunities for amateur birders like me to make real contributions to science. Some of the birds who depend on the lake itself, such as ducks and shorebirds, have scattered to every remaining reservoir, pond, or puddle in the area. But obsessed I am.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2018

Said explanations include a wide variety of topics, from the edgier aspects of biology (among the ducks, of course) to climate change to quantum physics. Reilly also has a deft hand for style – accessible, friendly, and with occasional glints of humor that accent but don’t intrude on the science.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2013

Destined to be forever written off as ducks which which they share an affinity with water and little else, or maybe coots primarily among those who may reside near large numbers of those squabbling, aquatic rails, or more likely ignored as they slink back into the vegetation to do their business away from lookie-loos and carriers of bread bags.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

’ The Beautiful Sibia is beautiful even in Mandarin Chinese (Li se qi mei, “Beautiful babbler”) … … and of course in science (scientific name pulchella , “little beautiful”). . … Traill did this enough times that Shirley began to hide the scale.’

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It’s not always easy reading.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2013

The most obvious place that cryptozoology and ornithology overlap is in the area of Lazarus taxa and would-be Lazarus taxa — the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Eskimo Curlew, Pink-headed Duck , and the like — birds that no one doubts existed once, whether or not they exist today. Now why should this be?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

O beautiful for whistling ducks! Even in the Brazilian Amazon, I’ve never seen this many whistling ducks together–there were sixty at a manmade lake behind the Brevard Community College near Titusville, Florida. Black-bellied Whistling Ducks. a tropical delight! What a sight.

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Florida Tail Banding Ohio Ducks 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Great Cormorants can immerse into the water much more deeply than ducks, as their feathers are not waterproof … … but unfortunately, that requires some feather drying time afterward, which looks kind of stupid (yes, it is kid’s science hour at Kai’s bird blog …). An Eastern Buzzard had goose for lunch.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2012

NARITA, JAPAN, DECEMBER 2012 – The art and science of layover birding deserves more rigorous study and perhaps a federal grant. This terrific waterway, flanked with paths and studded with stepping stone bridges, is home to a lot of Eastern Spot-billed Ducks and Eurasian Teals.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

For me, there was the Limpkin in Loxahatchee NWR in Florida, the Atlantic Puffin at Petit Manan NWR in Maine, the Falcated Duck at Colusa NWR in California. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. Naturally, a walk through one’s life lists triggers memories.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

It was also in some ways an emotional quest for Audubon, who was freshly driven to complete his great work in the face of his first intimations, not only of his own mortality, but also of the idea that his beloved adopted continent was not inexhaustible and that its natural riches could be destroyed by constant exploitation.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2012

At the recent Swarovski Social Media Summit in Arizona, Nate proselytized passionately for the program that both manages your sightings and contributes them to science. Imagine having to clarify every pygmy-owl, every whistling-duck, every brush-finch… the autocomplete on my cell phone is smarter than this.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Finding waterfowl isn’t just about locating bodies of water; it’s about different types of ducks, birds most likely to be found in marshes and birds most likely to be found on the ocean, the definition of the term “raft”, and what other birds to look for in these places. There is a wide lens applied here.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2018

He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration. I had roughly 10-20 species for Serbia including species such as Ferruginous Duck , Hazel Grouse , Griffon Vulture and Spoonbill. ducks), IBA, particularly nice landscape/habitat, or scenery…. r=RS&yr=all&m= ).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.),

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

My birding adventures this week, while Western, were far from Interior (three words for you: Black-bellied Whistling Duck ). Hess also, to my pleasure, includes a few pages on citizen science projects like The Great Backyard Bird Count, and encourages his readers to share their new-found knowledge with friends and family.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Zamorano University may be regarded as one of the crown jewels of Latin American higher education, particularly in the areas of agriculture, environmental management, and food science, but this idyllic campus excels for more reasons than simply academics. Zamorano happens to be incredibly birdy.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. Have you noticed ducks and quail replacing loons and grebes at the beginning of newer bird field guides and checklists? American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

But, I think most would agree that driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. This is not to suggest that one must bounce about the Pacific Ocean on a pelagic tour to qualify as a birder.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2018

A few Great Blue Heron blended in with the reeds from afar, and a flock of mystery ducks made a bee-line for open water over our heads. That my data would be used in a global citizen science event? More pelicans buzzed the surface looking for an early dinner, while Willets and Sanderlings patrolled the sand for smaller meals.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2016

But driving a mile to walk at the local park and seeing ducks on the pond does not a birder make. But that estimate is admittedly more art than science, depending, as it does, on one’s estimate of what fraction of birders would engage in these countable activities.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I particularly recommend this book to students minoring in biology, ecology, environmental and veterinary sciences: Putnam’s clearly written and easy to understand style is sure to explain the complex concepts without relying on hard to decipher terminology. Mallard duck, Anas platyrhynchos. Hen harrier, Circus cyaneus.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2018

Out on one of the rocks that were visible during low tide, a small group of Harlequin Ducks had gathered. Rebecca did a beautiful job, not only discussing the birds on the area, but blending in some environmental science, and the issues that can affect the local bird species. Here is one of them standing in the kelp.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2020

This is more than eBird reports–a checklist generated from the citizen science database lists only 1,413 species. Jon Fjeldså’s contributions include many of the ducks, yellow-finches, and many other families where his images of Birds of the High Andes could be used. Clearly, this is an under-birded country. .

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2018

” Long before the science and physiology of taste were formally understood, brewers knew to avoid jarring combinations of sour and bitter flavors that signal poisons to our brains. Taken individually, sourness and bitterness can be essential flavor components in beer, but throughout history, they’ve wisely kept apart.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

While I’m sure no one is still ducking, covering and hoping this too shall pass, there is one question that remains: Are you moving fast enough???. Tim Riesterer is chief strategy and research officer at Corporate Visions , a provider of science-backed marketing and sales training programs and consulting services for B2B companies.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

It is easy to tell when some species become extinct — a Martha or a Lonesome George dies and there are no more, not now, not ever (until science fiction kicks in.) Such is the case with the Pink-headed Duck , Rhodonessa caryophyllacea , a native of India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. For this duck was (is?) Is it extinct?

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Answers will be forthcoming, but for now, I can tell you that they are all members of the mallard complex , a roster of about 20 closely-related Anas -species ducks around the world. The mallard is a mighty duck indeed, successful all across its broad range from the Americas through Eurasia down into Australia and New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2016

The blackbird wasn’t Audubon’s only venture into naming things for the guy; there was also a Brewer’s Duck, but that proved to be a hybrid resulting from the notoriously incontinent habits of Mallards , and it fell by the wayside. He described the Brewer’s Blackbird for science more than a decade before Audubon.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Also, with the opening of more hunting seasons i am hopefull that more concerned sportsmen will start an organization along the same grain as Ducks Unlimited to protect and create Sandhill habitat. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp! From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4 Isn’t that neat?

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