10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2014

However, since young redtails don’t normally loiter by the side of the road (unless they’re having a meal), much less allow a random human to pick them up, I figured he had probably bounced off a car. He was in good weight, showed no signs of head trauma, and x-rays revealed nothing broken. Moral of the story: no shortcuts. Wear sneakers.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2013

A week later there was very little evidence of the second bower and the current bower is overflowing with “treasures” It would have been incredible to film the process over the previous two weeks of moving items and dismantling and reinforcing the bower. Bower in Broome. The white tool is used for adjusting your reticulation.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2011

In his preface, he nicely brings the reader through the process he went through in deciding to write a book about feathers (it involves vultures and chance, a winning combination any way you look at it).

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 23, 2018

Co-founder and CTO The fear-mongering is everywhere; artificial intelligence will replace humans and kill jobs by automating the things that we do. It’s effective click-bait because it seems like the plot of a Hollywood action movie pitting robots against humans. Author: Steve Woods, Nudge.ai But, is it reality?

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2012

Before humans spread across the oceans of the world, wiping out huge numbers of endemic insular species , pretty much every decent sized island far from the continents had its own species of rail. Once upon a time the average bird on Earth was a rail.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2011

If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles&# , studying the pre-human avifauna of the Pacific would lead you to conclude that God was also quite partial to rails. The fossil record of the islands don’t show the Buff-banded Rail appearing until after humans arrived.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

Now I’m no gardener – but I also trust the natural process. Life here is experiencing a boon in the face of encroaching human activity, at least in my immediate vicinity. It is my hope that they all can continue to benefit from this rewilding project; I shall gladly handle the complaints from human quarters.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

Not familiar with the falconry world, I had no idea how rigorous the apprenticeship and training process is, from building your own aviary to a commitment to conservation. .” This was not the first, nor the last moment of connection between Stotts and the avian world. ” I encourage everyone to click here and order your copy!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

I remember taking an advanced seminar in plant-animal interaction, in preparation for my own study of human-plant interactions. Some of our greatest human pleasures come from those toxins, and I’m not just talking about various narcotics, though there is always that. Insects ruled. One way to do that is to be toxic.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Weidensaul traveled to each location to witness the research in process. It’s hard not to share his curiosity and wonder of all things avian and all processes migration. This is big, global-level stuff with amazing findings but worrisome data. I highly recommend A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food! Gray Jays have long been more than willing to scarf down the offal that remains when hunters process a carcass so it is little wonder that they have adapted their foraging habits to include whatever scraps picnickers are willing to share.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

I love her Carolina Wrens , her Piping Plovers , her Chimney Swifts , her Ivory-billed Woodpeckers , and her Phoebes, both avian and human. Like Heinrich, Julie shares not only the stories that she wants to tell but also the thought processes that she went through to come to her conclusions.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2022

Watcha looking at, human?” Her history of their contributions to civilization include no less of a champion than Charles Darwin, who studied pigeons in pursuit of figuring out evolution, developing a great fondness for them in the process.). “Pigeons have lost their usefulness. .’

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2016

According to some very rude finches, I was merely wasting my time by their bush, annoying them in the process. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique to humans, but their results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. Japanese Great Tit, credit: Toshitaka Suzuki.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 31, 2024

Effective onboarding can be accomplished when much of the process is automated, but maintaining a human connection is essential. The post Is Your Onboarding Process Over-Automated? Building trust requires developing authentic relationships. appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Historically, all Bank Swallow colonies in North America were found in natural sites such as banks along rivers, streams, lakes, and coasts; today, many colonies are in human-made sites like sand and gravel pits and road cuts. Observing these different behaviors I believe these Bank Swallows were in different stages of the nesting process.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 28, 2015

By studying Zebra Finches and domestic chickens, the scientists discovered that multiple sperm appear necessary for a fertilized egg to progress to the embryo stage (a process called “polyspermy”.) This differs from humans and other mammals, in which the addition of extra sperm essentially destroys the egg.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

However, we now know that human ancestors became upright first, and were bipedal for millions of years before they started to use tools extensively, and then another million years went by before their brains started to evolve a significantly larger size. At present there may be three reasonable hypotheses to explain this.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

His photographs fill each page, offering visions of the island’s creatures, flora, and geography at varying ages and stages and in every season, as seen in close-up and at a distance. They complement Kricher’s text., The first five chapters focus on natural history and evolutionary thought.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2015

The rate and volume at which we can process genetic material is increasing very rapidly, making studies like Mason and Taylor’s possible. Lifjeld uses the redpoll study as an entry point to comment on the on the state of bird taxonomy in the “genomics era,” concluding, “species must be diagnosable from their genomes.”

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Author: Dave Hulsen Organizations resist investing in new technology for many reasons – concerns about ROI, not wanting to disturb workflow, maintaining current processes – the list goes on. The same conversations happen when examining the RFP process. Think about how your organization navigates the RFP process today.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2016

Every time a gene is replicated, or really, a chromosome (during cell division), a bit of the end of a gene may be lost, owing to the way this process happens. This is part of the process of aging. Jon Sakata, a professor of neurobiology at McGill, says that songbirds learn vocalizations like humans learn speech. Salmón, J.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

This was always a process of solitary exploration; only later did other birders ask me to take them to see the unusual species I had found. And here we are, in 2020, being told to shun human contact as much as possible. But if you can, do go out and look for a new, no-human patch. Organized outings are out of the question.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2023

Similarly, both bird families have a distinct significance for humans. In general, it seems sunbirds are doing a bit better in co-existing with humans than many other families. A female: no forked tail, not much color. No wonder that in the past, sunbird parents often preferred male chicks.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2018

It would use that mini rapier of a beak to full poking effect if the hapless human tried to take a sip from its feeder, or pick one of its flowers, or even neglect to fill the feeder on time. Trust me, we are better off not being able to translate all of that hyperactive sputtering. I would hope not!

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Many of the great debates over human behavior, those related to things such as race or gender, are muddled and messy because plasticity is ignored. Plasticity in humans is probably modulated primarily through experience and enculturation. Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

After the females lay so many eggs, they move on and continue looking for other suitable males and harems to join in and repeat the process. Whether the real father or not, male Rheas are extremely protective of the chicks under their responsibility facing off threats they would otherwise run away from; including humans.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2015

Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. Some people love books like that. Yellow Warbler fledgling.

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 22, 2010

De-mystify the labeling on a lot of pet food – “natural,&# “raw,&# “human grade,&# “FDA approved&#. Pet food may be highly processed and still be considered “natural”. Human Grade” is far superior to the “feed grade” found in most pet food. Karen Scoggins, My Perfect Pet.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

They were able to untangle him, but they took a few good talon hits in the process. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” Karen Lynn’s Red-Tailed Hawk was not as easily intimidated. “A bunch of bikers found him entangled in monofilament. One of them put him in their motorcycle box and they all brought him to me.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The authors aim “for the first time [to] systematically explore the taxonomic and geographic patterns of extralimital avian occurrence globally and try to synthesize what we know about the processes that underpin these occurrences, based on the latest scientific discoveries” (p. Next time, I’ll know why.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

This process is known as distraction osteogenesis. With human patients, it’s easy – you put them in a hospital bed and tell them to ‘stay still.’ They stabilize small fragments of bone and encourage some ‘up and down’ movement between fragments, keeping an adequate blood supply and allowing the bones to unionize.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2011

I have thoroughly explored vast parts of the continent as well as neighboring Madagascar, in the process seeing over 2,000 birds on the continent and all but one Malagasy endemic. I was fortunate to have been born and raised in Africa, and although I have traveled extensively around the world, it remains my home and in my blood.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2012

A state law mandating "humane treatment" of downed livestock headed for the slaughterhouse was unanimously overturned Monday by the Supreme Court. Read the full story at CNN. California's (law) endeavors to regulate the same thing, at the same time, in the same place -- except by imposing different requirements.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2021

The six chapters that follow explore bird communication in mating; defending territory; rearing children; responding to predators; interacting with neighbors and functioning in large groups; and communicating successfully in a noisy human world. There is so much here! I do wish there was more about research on female bird song.

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Sales and Marketing Management

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Author: Ben Thoren This past May marked the one-year anniversary of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a data privacy regulation that has had a significant impact on the way enterprises process and store personal data. Do we have clear data governance processes in place and are they regularly communicated to our team?

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