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The web site has a number of other features and organized bits of information. The report itself is a few dozen pages long, and describes how “North America’s birds may respond to future climate change” using citizen science data. Audubon’s Conservation Science team has generated three data products.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The more data about bird migration we gather from professional and citizen science efforts, the more each one of us can learn about the comings and goings of our favorite species. But information wants to be free, so it reaches out to us through a variety of channels. Fun, right?

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JULY 9, 2024

Award-winning free-lance science journalist Nicola Jones , most noted for her work on climate change and environmental issues, ventured into the book world with a picture book on the wildlife rehabilitation efforts for one of North America’s most endangered bird species, the Northern Spotted Owl.

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APRIL 5, 2022

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. The Family Accounts are also a deeply informational, documented source of information for researchers.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

There is a wealth of information about these marvelous creatures, given via prose essays, and charts, and tables – it’s all quite user-friendly. ” Her book is both informative and fun, a good read. But this is more than a coffee table book.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Nonetheless, I thought it might be interesting and informative to review a DVD put out by Crowe’s Nest Media , a family owned and operated company, which is how I found a copy of Your Backyard: A young beginner’s guide to identifying 18 common feeder birds by sight & sound in my mailbox earlier this week.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Ignotofsky is best known for her 2016 book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, of which Scientific American noted “The world needs more books like this.” Questions, scattered throughout the text, move the story forward—and draw attention to the importance of science. And What’s Inside a Bird’s Nest?

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AUGUST 21, 2012

Therefore, while neighbors alert hosts to local cuckoo activity, frequency-dependent social information selects for a cuckoo plumage polymorphism to thwart host detection. Science 3 August 2012: 578–580 a.

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MAY 23, 2012

You could raise both, given that there are 40 million Pheasants released in the UK each year and previous research by the industry’s own science lobby (Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust) had found little evidence of raptor take (0.6% of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The task of wrestling this topic down into something that the human mind can manage, without losing sight of the big picture because it’s snowing in Buffalo, is likely to be the task of a lifetime for many science communicators. If I have any complaints, they lie not in the information but in the way the information is presented.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Cognitive science offers proven techniques to help make presentations more persuasive, memorable and action-driven. By understanding how the brain processes information, you can create and deliver content that resonates deeply with your audience.

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APRIL 4, 2014

The many eyes on this particular citizen-science prize have also yeilded other results as well. Right now, the new information is coming so thick and fast that all I can do is stand amazed. Over the next few weeks I’ll be trying to sort out how to turn this all into both data and narrative. Birds nests Ospreys web cams'

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JUNE 3, 2019

But in this era of 24/7 connectivity, the ready availability of information right at the buyer’s fingertips is fundamentally changing how customers buy , across the board. When it comes to hiring, training, managing and coaching salespeople, there is actually a formula for success with some science behind it.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Although we do enjoy it immensely, we are not doing it for fun, but to gather information on distribution, habitat choice and density of breeding pairs. European Breeding Bird Atlas 2 presents information on all species reported to breed in the study period (2013 to 2017) and some with more uncertain breeding status.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

More recently, a group of developers petitioned FWS to delist the gnatcatcher because the underlying science was allegedly flawed and the coastal gnatcatcher is not really a distinct subspecies. Thus, the court did not even address the science regarding taxonomy and connectivity, which continues to develop.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Because eBird has so much data that can be organized and displayed in so many ways, it is easy to find fascinating information. It is worth pausing to marvel at the comprehensiveness and accessibility of eBird information. Moreover, it contributes to science (and economics ) and the price is right. GPS-tracked miles.

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MAY 14, 2024

By Susan Wroble Susan Wroble is a Denver-based children’s author with a focus on science-based stories. Along with the animation and song, the app gives a bit of information on each bird, their scientific name, and a link to a sonogram to replay the song. The back matter in this book is especially rich.

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MAY 17, 2012

It turns out that the latest research shows that birds use magnetic information form the Earth’s magenetosphere to find their way around, able to detect the orientation of the magnetic flux as well as its strength. However, how the brain receives and interprets magnetic field information is unknown. Le-Qing Wu and J.

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JULY 15, 2024

Apart from some limited description in the HBW, there is again rather limited information available on the species, perhaps because it does not usually live on university campuses and thus is not a preferred target for ornithologists. Yes, sometimes I have more photos that I want to show than useful information.

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JULY 15, 2014

Museum of Natural Sciences and N.C. So this may not inform us much of what feral cats are doing. And third, related to next week’s post, there is an interesting project being started in North Carolina in which little monitoring devices are being attached to cats to see what they do when running around wild. Birds research'

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NOVEMBER 6, 2015

To observe this species, I had to first inform Fundación Jocotoco ( www.fjocotoco.org / reservations@fjocotoco.org) of my visit so that they could arrange a ranger to escort me while there. Heading back north towards Quito, I broke up the long bus ride with a couple days in the picturesque city of Cuenca.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

This exhibit has been making the rounds of science museums, and if comes to your area I highly recommend it, not just for kids. If you don’t live near a science museum, then read this chapter. The last few pages of the book offer Further Information , a list of selected books and websites, and a very good Index.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Birkhead, the experienced storyteller who is also Emeritus Professor at the School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, author of multiple scientific articles as well as books of popular science, knows how to make it readable and fun. Colonialism and appropriation of knowledge is discussed in Chapter 6, The New World of Science.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

How to choose bird feeders; how to make nutritious bird food; how to create a backyard environment that will attract birds; how to survey your feeder birds for citizen science projects; how to prevent squirrels from gobbling up all your black oil sunflower seed (sorry, none of that works). million people in the U.S. in 2011*) came about.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. I also would have liked more specific information on the studies themselves–authors, years, where I can read them. Research experiments are described without citing the names of the researchers themselves or any other background information.

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MAY 5, 2015

It is not a field guide, though it offers a wealth of information about field identification. I would be more apt to accept the science of BBI if the science of hemispheric brain functions was not subject to so much misconceptions and simplification.* The result is a different kind of book.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a long-standing program of the National Audubon Society, with over 100 years of citizen science involvement. For more information on the 117th Audubon Annual Christmas Bird Count go to their home page or find an Audubon Chapter near you. Click on photos for full sized images).

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As you can easily judge from the dullness of this information, it is not something I made up but rather an appalling example of nepotism in the naming of birds. If you have always wondered what the minimum anesthetic concentration for isoflurane and sevoflurane for the Crested Serpent-eagle is, science has an answer.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

So comparisons of bill shapes, foot shapes, and the like can certainly stimulate the imagination, but we need rigorous science to explore and synthesize more molecular work, morphological analysis, and biogeographical hypotheses in order to close more gaps in our understanding.

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JUNE 4, 2013

Not only has this live camera feed provided a wonderful educational resource for science teachers across the country, but it has also shed light on some very interesting behaviors of these owls. For more information and to track the progress of these fascinating owls click here.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

’ The Beautiful Sibia is beautiful even in Mandarin Chinese (Li se qi mei, “Beautiful babbler”) … … and of course in science (scientific name pulchella , “little beautiful”). Hopefully this information is useful for some readers, particularly those with plans to travel to Nigeria.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Environmental and natural resource economists routinely use information about recreational destination choices, given the cost of getting to alternative destinations, as a form of “indirect market” information about people’s willingness to pay more (for better) recreational opportunities. Census and ecoregion information from the U.S.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Of all the ways people choose to pass their time, few recreational activities are as tightly bound to science as birding. When we separate sport from science, opportunity for enjoyment increases immeasurably. For many, the list matters much more than the science behind it. Imagine the possibilities!

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MAY 12, 2020

That information includes the print run for the most recent issue and the “paid distribution.” Rankings on Amazon provide information relative to other books, but do not provide a basis to infer how many copies are sold.) Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. Nonetheless, here are links for the ABA and eBird.

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APRIL 25, 2012

The answer lies in the information I just provided; how long everything takes when you’re an albatross. It is a surprisingly difficult question for science to address, but it can say this. So what is going on? In Julie’s column this week she addressed the question of whether birds feel love.

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

Back in the day, information about this bird would have been conveyed by phone trees and cumbersome Rare Bird Alert phone message systems, many of which were only updated once a week. Texting and the internet allows information to spread very, very quickly. I think it is difficult to deny, however, that eBird is a very good thing.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

It’s a matter of personal preference: neither does every reader like, say, science fiction, or the writing of Henry James, or romance novels. The wealth and depth of information about birds and birding, and the intertwining of birds into each plot, makes them irresistible. There’s no accounting for taste.

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