10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Way back when I started what turned out to be my thesis research (on humans), it became important for me to learn about bird migration. I was involved in the study of human movement and navigation on land, and there was a lot of research coming out about bird navigation. Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Image source.

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Sales and Marketing Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In fact, it’s one of the most painful of all human experiences. The best salespeople master techniques to get past the noes and keep pushing toward the yeses – but in the process, they must field a lot of emotional turmoil. The art and science of getting past no begins with self-control – and that begins with awareness.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

But not everyone sees things through such an avian-positive lens, and hence science often has to make the case for birds’ intrinsic worth. The scientists hope to expand the scope of their study to examine how humans affect global ecosystems. The latest such argument focuses on birds’ value to the well-being of rainforests.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2018

Here are a few other things regular readers of this site may be familiar with: The bird science journal “The Condor,” the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, the concept of “niche,” and the system for making field observations of species known as the “Grinnell System.” More recently, Kelly J.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 12, 2017

Strategic marketers today must balance the right brain that controls creativity and intuition and the left brain that processes information logically and analytically. And it’s easy for over-reliance on data to distract a marketing organization from the human side of marketing. Data Doesn’t Stir Emotions.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2018

Under the Endangered Species Act, any listing, uplisting, downlisting, or removal from a list requires a formal “rulemaking” process. Because these decisions can be significant, taking the occasional look at the process can be illuminating. # # #.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2016

The process of analysis was complex, but the result is fairly simple. In essence, the benefits to birds from climate change (global warming caused by human release of greenhouse gas pollution) is neutral, while the negative effects are serious and increasing. Stephens, Philip, et al. 352:6281(84-87).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

The magnificent history and diversity of birds on Earth came into sharper focus this month with the publication of 28 new scientific papers in Science and other journals. processed the entire genomes of 48 bird species and compared nearly 42 million base pairs of DNA (Hackett et al. American Flamingo photo by Dick Culbert).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

In the slightly frighteningly named journal “Science of The Total Environment”, there is a paper on organochlorine compounds in Purple Heron eggs nesting in sites located around a chloralkali plant (Ebro River). More work, less fun, all because humans introduced some stupid fish into kingfisher habitat.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

After one 3 year stint, they left with 131,405 specimens including birds, mammals, reptiles, plants and even human remains (which were only recently repatriated for burial in Africa!) Ayres discovered Orange Ground Thrush , Ayres’ Cisticola and Ashy Flycatcher in the process.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

It is presented in two main parts, the “how” – considering the physical processes involved in the way animals perceive their environment, and “why” of animal behaviour – examining the evolutionary forces that have shaped the more complex behaviours. Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Not all habitat change is due to humans; there is Chestnut Blight destroying American Chestnuts in the early 1900s, and the more recent Dutch Elm disease. This is a project that clearly spanned decades. Van Der Donck Meadows in the 1700s, with an Indian trail crossing it where W. 231st Street is now located. . Another big year memoir?

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 9, 2019

Humans, however, have always found innovative solutions when business problems like this arise. Human memory is short-lived, but an AI-based platform allows content to remain in memory as long as it serves a useful purpose. The input from sales teams is the starting point for many processes with businesses.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 6, 2020

This clearly illustrates the need for sales kickoffs to be viewed as an ongoing process, rather than a discrete point in time. The process begins before the meeting, to get people prepared, and continues after the last rep goes home, to make sure everyone remembers – and can master – what they learned. After the Meeting.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 1, 2018

The science behind storytelling. I advise business people to begin every presentation with a compelling, human-scale story. Sales done right should be a natural, step-by-step process that leads to a sale. Strong stories can turn an otherwise mundane business process into a competitive edge. It’s not about you.

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Sales and Marketing Management

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The B2B buying process isn’t as linear or predictable as most companies assume. The buying process is more complex and convoluted than ever, handoffs are less defined, and buyers are getting wrapped around the axle trying to figure things out for themselves. Let’s look at each of the four forever changes in more detail. Takeaway: ?Sales

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Sales and Marketing Management

JANUARY 2, 2019

At the same time, much of the hiring process is usually done by a recruiting or HR function, leaving mediocre managers feeling minimal accountability for the performance of the new hires. Basic human nature leads the average rep to gravitate toward accounts that feel comfortable, regardless of potential revenue outcome.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 20, 2020

In the book, they explain that two brothers from the finance world founded the International Well Building Institute and created a WELL certification process in 2014. At a fundamental level, health drives human performance. The authors call these Health Performance Indicators (HPIs). “At The problem of split incentives.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. Dr. David Lavigne, Science Advisor to the International Fund for Animal Welfare, co-authored Gaining Ground: In Pursuit of Ecological Sustainability 5.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Not only is it a very impressive citizen science project that manages to marshal the legions of birders around Canada and the U.S., Time will tell how much good science can be wrung from the data (due to observer bias, misidentifications, the vastly differing skillsets of contributing observers, under-birded areas, etc.),

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

They insinuate themselves in normal bodily processes, but at some key stage instead of doing what is supposed to be done, they do something very different, everything gets screwed up, and the particular system they were involved in is seriously disrupted and the host organism gets very sick or dies. It is a very nice bit of science.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2023

It is also about Chris’s personal history: his boyhood in suburban Long Island, college years at Harvard and the struggle to come out, ‘nerdy’ passions beyond birding–namely science fiction books and films, career highs at Marvel Comics, travels to foreign countries, and his complicated relationships with his parents.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2020

What was that process like? And don’t forget, I’m the one coming out of solitude and ready to rejoin humanity in March of 2020. How would you describe your writing style? Energetic. I like to keep things moving. You’ve published with major trade houses, but you’ve brought Unflappable out as a self-published novel.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2023

Being a management consultant, I am well-versed in the science and art of b *g. It thereby illustrates how pure science advances informed conservation actions to ensure the (short-term) stability of the target population, and how conservation-motivated analyses fed back to advance fundamental understanding of population processes.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Jennifer Ackerman points out in the introduction to What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds , that we don’t know much, but that very soon we may know a lot more. What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds is a joyous, fascinating read.

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Sales and Marketing Management

AUGUST 8, 2018

National Geographic’s five Instagram channels featured hashtag-worthy images to inspire women to pursue innovative careers in science. Have influencers who can pull together a narrative that humanizes your words and business. As with all unorthodox marketing processes, B2B social influencer campaigns require a bit of trial and error.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

This remote region of Cryptosepalum forests is little changed by human hands (somewhat of a rarity in these times of devastating habitat destruction) yet this species has not been relocated despite extensive searches by birders (including myself). This Banded Barbet is in the process of regurgitating a seed.

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