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Birding Tengchong, Yunnan, China in 2017

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I visited Tengchong in late 2020 and wrote about it – but I also went there earlier, in 2017, and this post shows some photos I took during that trip, along with the usual comments that seem to be much more about ridiculing my fellow humans (especially ornithologists and the like) than providing useful information on birds.

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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 Schools Our Children Deserve by Alfie Kohn from the 2015 Deming in Education conference: 2,900 views (2 years – 5,500). Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel in the last year. Those with W.

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Vagrancy in Birds: A Book Review

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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.

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Guide to the Birds of Honduras Translation Project

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He has recorded over 20 new bird records for Honduras, dozens of new butterflies, new orchid records and even new species for science. In 2015, with my self- published Guide to the Birds of Honduras, I had the intent to simultaneously print it in Spanish. They hope to have a working draft completed by the end of 2017.

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Bird Talk: An Exploration of Avian Communication–A Book Review

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Bird communication is a complex and evolving science. Signaling theory comes up frequently in bird literature (one example I can think of off-hand is Nick Davies’ Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature, Bloomsbury, 2015), but if you’re not familiar with its basic ideas you must read the Introduction.

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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Two maps of the northwest Bronx and adjacent Yonkers, one from 1891 and one from 2015, pp. E-bird data up to November 2017 was used to update migrational pattern data and “for locating obscure but locally significant records that otherwise might never have seen the light of day” (p. “Wait!”

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Bird Books for Children: From Colors & Shapes to Discovering Central Park

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Jenkins has written and illustrated a number of science-based books for children, many with his wife, Robin Page. Charlesbridge, 2017; Boardbook edition, 18 pages, 7 x 0.5 PomegranateKids, 2015; Boardbook edition, 24 pages, 7 x 0.8 These illustrations by Steve Jenkins are perfect. Baby’s First Book of Birds & Colors.