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The Most Popular Videos on Our YouTube Channel in 2017

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If Japan Can Why Can’t We : 17,000 views (2 years – 39,000). Deming 101 – Theory of Knowledge/PDSA (This video has excerpts from Ian Bradbury’s presentation at our annual conference in 2013): 1,400 views (3 years – 4,900). Edwards Deming in them are the most popular.

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Red-necked Stint with a Japanese flag

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I first observed it on 28th November 2012 and it left us and headed north to return to the exact same place to be observed on 19th November 2013. The information was sent off to Japan to enable them to let me know exactly when this little shorebird got its metal band and blue flags.

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Saving Birds From Invasive … Plants?

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Between 2012 and 2013, populations of Laysan and Black-footed Albatrosses at Midway reached near-record levels. And just a few months ago, conservationists celebrated the hatching of a Short-tailed Albatross on the atoll, only the third time this rare bird has produced a chick outside of Japan. mainland.

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Birds Threatened by Asiatic Sand Sedge Invasion on Long Island

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In the early 1900s this plant was introduced to the beaches of New Jersey from Japan and subsequently planted on many beaches there as an erosion control plant because its prolific rhizomes stabilized the sand. A new invasive plant is threatening the beaches of Long Island, Asiatic Sand Sedge or Carex kobomugi.

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I Remember Elephants

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Nevertheless, only the most important news I did follow, those about the decision-making process on future sales of elephants and their ivory at a global wildlife summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first such meeting since 2013. We are facing a plague of poaching that is again decimating the species. But I do not feel amused by it.

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A Grey-tailed Tattler flagged In Taiwan returns annually

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It was only a week later that we discovered our first Terek Sandpiper that had been flagged at Torinumi in Japan. The story did not end there, because it went north and then we observed it for the first time when it returned on 23rd September 2013 and once again it stayed with us until it went north once again.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. Random House UK, September 2013. The Birds of Prey chapter, on the other hand, is 18 pages long. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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