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Swarovski Skills Camp, or men and their toys

10,000 Birds

I am still tired from the long drive, but it was great to play with the very best toys for birders, to be able to share experiences and to ask the factory staff all sorts of silly questions. At the end of the 20th century (and before the ELs were born), the factory hired consultants to help it restructure and maximise profits.

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Binocular snobbery

10,000 Birds

From Germany we flew to Majorca to test the binoculars in the field (it was a hard life); I remember enjoying watching such delights as black vultures and moustached warblers ( below ) with my new binoculars. These binoculars were made at Leica’s factory in Portugal. With hindsight this wasn’t a great move.

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Getting the Bill – Taste, Touch and Smell in Birds

10,000 Birds

I remember watching a David Attenborough episode once where he tested the theory that new world vultures could locate carcasses by smell alone. Birds use rectal bristles (at the base of the bill) and tiny touch factories called Herbst corpuscles to detect touch. And again, there is great variation amongst different species.

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Animal Welfare Act Inadequate for Farm Animals

Critter News

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “farm animals are regulated under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) only when used in biomedical research, testing, teaching and exhibition. are killed in factory style slaughterhouses whose primary goal is to kill and process animals quickly and efficiently. Most animals in the U.S.

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Why Traditional Marketing Is Broken (and 5 Ways to Fix It)

Sales and Marketing Management

The focus on outcomes transforms marketing from a content factory and cost center to a contributing member of the revenue and profitability team. By increasing the number of tests from roughly one test every two weeks to 10 tests per week, they dramatically improved the acquisition of new, active Twitter users. .

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On Going Vegan

Animal Person

The discussion about the environment usually originates in the massive problems created by the factory farming of sentient nonhumans. The arguments against factory farming, which most recently were articulated by Jonathan Safran Foer (who has caused quite a stir in the mainstream), are legion. You are choosing violence.

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Autumn colours

10,000 Birds

This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. Here is a little test-there are 6 species of shorebird in the photo-can you identify them?

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