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Birding Technology – The New Citizen Science

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But one of the most important aspects of these advances in new-age birding is the fact that they have grown hand-in-hand with the almost exponential growth in citizen science. Citizen science is a term used for the systematic collection and analysis of data and the dissemination of such data by researchers on a primarily voluntary basis.

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

10,000 Birds

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity by Douglas J. Futuyma is a synthesis of theory and research about evolution and birds. that’s three birds). This is a book that requires attention.

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Potpourri of Amazing Bird Science

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— and link that to something abut the Great Grey Owl and my BFF Analiese Miller who is an amazing, emerging, photographer who has recently trained her 300mm Cannon F4 lens on the birds (including the Great Grey) at Sax Zim. Researchers are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or even fish.

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USDA Issues Warning Letter to Oregon National Primate Research Center

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The warning cited three errors in veterinary care, including a serious 2007 incident where a pregnant monkey died when a researcher failed to notice she was having a troubled labor. The lab reported the incidents to the National Institutes of Health, said Jim Newman, a spokesman for Oregon Health & Science University, which runs the center.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

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There is a fantastic paper just out in Science : “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea Cau, Darren Naishe and Gareth Dyke. The paper that just came out in science has the following spectacular conclusion. Meanwhile I have a few random thoughts.

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The Just-In-Time Training Revolution

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Research Officer, Corporate Visions When it comes to enabling salespeople to be great “in the moment” across the different types of selling situations they face, the technology is there. The bad news: Messaging content and skills training approaches are not always present. That’s the good news.

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Texas Tech Allowed to Withhold Info on Animal Testing

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The Texas Attorney General ruled earlier this month that the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center can withhold records of a committee that oversees the use of animals in training and research. Tags: university research animal experimentation animal rescue medical research.

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