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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

10,000 Birds

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

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The Science Behind Successful Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

In my experience, most salespeople come to the table with a range of skills and characteristics that enable them to be successful in their jobs. When it comes to hiring, training, managing and coaching salespeople, there is actually a formula for success with some science behind it. The Value of Predictive Analytics.

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Solid Air: Invisible Killer Saving Billions of Birds From Windows–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

Solid Air: Invisible Killer- Saving Billions of Birds from Windows is the summation of Dr. Klem’s expertise, experience, and professional life–what we scientifically know about bird and glass collisions, a handbook on how to prevent them, and, not insignificantly, the story of a remarkable career.

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Bird Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The idea is to portray one bird for each hour of the day in words and art, presenting the diversity, beauty, and wonder of avian life. Hauber is really good at presenting scientific findings so they don’t seem scientific at all, simply reasonable answers to our questions. Bird Day is a lovely, little jewel of a book.

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

10,000 Birds

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. I first got a glimpse of it back in August 2023, when Kevin did a presentation at the Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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The Most Popular Videos on Our YouTube Channel in 2017

10,000 Birds

The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W. Red Bead Experiment (a longer video than the excerpts from this that are listed above): 2,100 views (2 years – 5,300). excerpt from Bill Bellow’s presentation at the 2012 Deming Conference. How Did We Do on the Test?

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