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The Most Popular Videos on Our YouTube Channel in 2017

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Edwards Deming: The 14 Points : 46,000 views in 2017 (added 3 years ago – 106,000 total views all time). The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Lessons from the Red Bead Experiment with W. Red Bead Experiment (a longer video than the excerpts from this that are listed above): 2,100 views (2 years – 5,300).

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. A core portion of the birdwatcher survey involved discrete choice experiments (DCEs). Broadly speaking, they were not.) But only 13% purchased a Duck Stamp. “A

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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Less and Gilroy sort through the exogenous (external) and endogenous (internal) factors thought to cause vagrancy and the scientific experiments that have sought to prove their significance with patience and plain language as well as charts and photographs. It’s not always easy reading.

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Birders: A Documentary Short Film Review

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The experiences of children observing birds, touched on in the U.S. Portillo Padua’s previous documentary, the 2012 Diario a Tres Voces, was well reviewed and made the festival circuit, but it was of the creative, personal documentary subspecies. Hopefully, it will be more widely available in the future.

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Gantheaume Point shorebirds

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I will also give you the link here for 2017 in case you are reading this next year or want to plan a trip for next year! From our experience the greatest risk is when the shorebirds take off in a panic flight and clip each other’s wings and several fall into the sea.

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Andalucia’s City-Slicker Falcons

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They can be challenging to identify, especially if you haven’t seen one before, though with experience they are not really so difficult. The population in Andalucia in 2012 was 5,057 pairs – over one third of the Spanish population. However, the Lesser Kestrel has received help. Finance came from national and regional governments.

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A Birder Reads a Scientific Paper

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Other papers are locked behind paywalls.) That research ultimately led to an article about the conservation efforts regarding the Laysan Duck in the June 2017 issue of Birding. Over two years (2011 and 2012), scientists captured 50 birds and successfully transported them from Niho to Laysan. and Antony W. ” The Auk 128.2