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

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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. This isn’t a bad thing, it’s just a very different kind of book than popular books about bird behavior, which rely on story as much as science.

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Sand Trap: Netting Red Knots for Science

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Mist nets are a popular strategy. If you need to capture a bird for study or rehabbing, there are a number of tools at your disposal. You can use garden-variety butterfly nets or bigger, pool-cleaning nets. What if, however, you want to nab a group of shorebirds that will scurry or take flight at the merest approach?

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Does Your B2B Closing Technique Include This Strategy?

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Forbes contributor, Roger Dooley has a knack for ferreting out better business procedures through behavioral science. Share Your Strategy. A previous SalesFuel post advised sellers to share their closing strategy at the first meeting. It’s not so much the methods involved but the mindset it triggers that makes it compelling.

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The Science Behind Successful Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

When it comes to hiring, training, managing and coaching salespeople, there is actually a formula for success with some science behind it. That’s why assessments are a critical step to any sales strategy, in order to determine the strengths, weaknesses, and competencies of the team members. The Value of Predictive Analytics.

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Angry Birds Hitting Your Windows

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I work part time for the National Park Service (although, we’ll see what happens this weekend if there’s a federal government shutdown) and our visitor center is located in the Science Museum of Minnesota. An American Robin was perched on the side of one of the Science Museum vans.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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For one thing, we become more aware of cultural biases in our science (new findings on warbling female birds, for example, reveal both gender and geographic biases). Many popular science books have neither. As Ackerman explains in her Introduction, studying extreme behavior brings new insight into what we think we know.

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Good news for the Wood Stork

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Since listing, sound science, work towards habitat protection, acquisition and restoration and regulatory reforms its range has expanded north and west, and now includes portions of North Carolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. Conservation'