10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

This is the second post in the Birding crème de la crème series (the first, focused on southern Asia, is here ). This time we travel to Africa, or to narrow it further, to the Afrotropical region (since the north of the continent avifaunally belongs to the Palearctic). The bird-richest region of Africa is its equatorial East: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi (unlike the rest, the last one, Burundi, is politically unstable and not recommendable).

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

Author: Andy Springer Remember when we could hold meetings in person? In those times, a seller’s dynamic personality was all that was needed to keep buyers focused. In this new world we find ourselves in, distractions are everywhere. When buyers are staring at a screen during a virtual meeting, they can more easily multitask. . Working on other projects.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2021

During the second weekend of the year, even common birds still carry their luster. Enjoy that feeling while you can, because we are still months away from migration! While I sought rarities on the western edge of Rochester this weekend, I came up with entirely common species. Still, I rarely get tired of seeing large flocks of Long-tailed Ducks in their striking plumage.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 13, 2021

It always surprises me when people compliment my photographs. As I have often commented on this site, I started taking photos of birds only to improve the accuracy of my IDs. And while I put more effort into taking decent photos than I used to, I still don’t do the hard stuff. I don’t greet the dawn in a camouflaged hide, and I don’t lie down on mudflats to see Sandpipers at ground level.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2021

I’m moving house at the end of this month, which provided a good opportunity for me to dig around my modest wine cellar – my basement, that is – for any older bottles of aging wine that might be ripe for enjoyment. I figure the less I have to pack, the better. I unearthed this 2013 Laguna de la Nava, a Spanish Gran Reserva wine bottled by Bodegas Navarro Lopez in Valdepeñas, a Denominación de Origen Protegida region in the province of Ciudad Real, about one hundred miles south of Madrid.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2021

One of the advantages of cycling around Broome on the many bike paths is that you observe more birds than you would if you travelled by vehicle. For most of the year the weather is perfect for cycling and when there is cyclonic weather about it is not recommended that you travel at all. Over recent weeks we have been watching the activity at a telecommunication tower between the airport and Frederick Street opposite the Broome Senior High School.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2021

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently finalized a rule regarding its narrowing interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). However, it is unlikely that this rule will stand long enough for it to be implemented on its effective date of February 8, 2021. Thus, the Trump Administration’s four-year campaign to undermine the MBTA is almost certainly going to fail.

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