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50 Top Birding Sites in Kenya review

10,000 Birds

The guide ends with a glossary, references, and separate indexes to scientific and common bird names. The only thing left for me is to test this guide within Kenya. The birds mentioned in the text are shown in bold, while the key species uncommon elsewhere stand out being both bold and brown.

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Why I Question Animal Testing 2.1

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This is a continuation of an earlier post about why I question animal testing. Faculty members who had earlier contented themselves with what was once referred to as a "threadbare but genteel" lifestyle began to ask themselves, in the words of my grandmother, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?

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Squirrel Buster Plus

10,000 Birds

When my friends over at YourBirdOasis sent me a super squirrel-proof bird feeder to review, I had to think about who I knew who could really put the device to the test. The proof of this is their Squirrel Buster Plus bird feeder , which I had the pleasure of testing over the last several weeks. I chose this as my test.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect as it Relates to Birding

10,000 Birds

Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.

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Entity Resolution Entity resolution, sometimes referred to as data matching or fuzzy matching, is critical for data quality, analytics, graph visualization and AI. Learn what entity resolution is, why it matters, how it works and its benefits.

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Bogota Sunangel or Not!

10,000 Birds

I am referring to the detailed analysis of the bird from Gary Graves’ description of the skin in Vol 110 No 1 of The Auk (January 1993). Although I am pretty confident that this species is not the long-lost Bogota Sunangel or even a Heliangelus, more will be known once DNA testing has been done. Albeit premature thoughts.

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“Birds of Cyprus” field guide review

10,000 Birds

The book ends with References, the Checklist as noted above and the Index. Now, let me test the armour of “Birds of Cyprus” (BOC) against the mace of the “Collins Bird Guide” (CBG). It ends with the already mentioned birdwatching sites. CBG and BOC seem to be using the same size font. Birds of Cyprus”.

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