2013 Adoptable Experience Science 
10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2015
GISS—general impression, size, shape—is intuitive, the result of an unconscious cognitive process derived from experience in the field. Experienced birders can identify birds using GISS; all birders can identify birds if they adopt the BBI approach. There is GISS and there is Birding by Impression and they are not the same.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Random House UK, September 2013. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. .” Birds & People.
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