Tue.Jul 02, 2024

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The Shorebirds of North America: A Natural History and Photographic Celebration–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

“You don’t like shorebirds?” my birding friend asked me in a tone of surprise, shock, and a tiny bit of horror. We had been talking about summer and I imagine that when she exclaimed happily, “Soon it will be time to go to the East Pond for shorebirds!” my face betrayed me. “I love shorebirds,” I replied, “I just don’t always like them.” My feelings about shorebirds came back to me a few days later, as I observed a mixed group of peeps and Dowitchers at Mecox Inlet, eastern Long Island, not far

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Add Psychometric Assessments to Your Hiring Checklist for Outstanding Results

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The pendulum in the job market has swung from the prospective employees’ side to the hiring managers’ side. But it’s still not easy to find the right team members. That’s why you need to develop a hiring checklist. Add Psychometric Assessments to Your Hiring Checklist for Outstanding Results Like many managers, you may already use an informal list to track your hiring process.

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Red Grouse Restored: a Full Species Again

10,000 Birds

“One sunny morning a few months ago, as I stood on a mountain slope among bracken, ling, and furze, and scattered masses of grey rock, watching a small party of grouse near me, it struck me that I had never looked on a more beautiful creature than this bird: – so finely shaped and richly coloured, and proud and free in carriage, and in such perfect harmony with the rough vegetation and that wild and solitary nature amid which it exists.

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