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My eBird Citizen Science Experiment

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And what is the trend of those Belgrade rookeries? As I said, Rooks breed within villages, towns and cities, such as Belgrade with about 2 mil people, where street tree lines, especially of London Planes, become the favourite breeding spots. We do not know.

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Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

10,000 Birds

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. As Lee Et.Al One could say that Lee et.al.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

10,000 Birds

There was no overriding subject trend, as we’ve seen in recent years, rather a diversity of topics and approaches. Lees and Gilroy delineate vagrancy status and trends for every bird family worldwide, highlighting examples, synthesizing research, and framing it all with their own thoughts and conclusions.

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

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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Behavioral science can accelerate lead generation

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First, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quantity of your leads. Trends can be instrumental when you say, “We’ve had double-digit increases consistently for the last three years.” Second, consider some behavioral science tools for adding to the quality of your leads. We’ll get it right.”. Online Bonus:?The

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Playing with the Pros

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And even when I did try, my counts came up significantly lower than the science people’s count. I’m hoping it may become a trend. I also learned some lessons from birding with all these biologists: Biologists are way better at counting large numbers of creatures than I am. I’m a big fan of Snipes.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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. It’s not always easy reading.