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Corporate Branding of Birds for Conservation: A Modest Proposal

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And the faces around this table – faces you might recognize, and names, if I hadn’t signed an NDA that I’m pretty sure allows me to be shot into space if I tell you who was present – were doing a pretty good job of acting like they wanted to hear them. No brand recognition at all.” “Exactly! .

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Choosing a food that is right for you and your dog

4 The Love Of Animals

The convenience of ‘ready-made’ dog meals has been the key to its success, and since then many brands and varieties have been created, all coupled with great marketing strategies utilizing colorful labels and pictures. They offer a variety of carefully balanced, nutritional foods catering for all different requirements.

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Oban Distillery: 14-Year-Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

10,000 Birds

But the label of this week’s whisky – Oban 14-Year-Old Single Malt – presents a picture of these birds more familiar to birders: a throng of gulls perched high atop a jagged, craggy sea stack, with icy waves crashing all around below.

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Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, Second Edition: A Field Guide Review

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Major subspecies are presented–“Myrtle” and “Audubon’s” forms of Yellow-rumped Warbler, the five forms of Dark-eyed Junco, etc.–but The Accounts present text on the left and images on the right. I loved that page title).

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Want to Escape the Heat? Go Birding in Costa Rica!

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The other day, I was up there to do my annual breeding bird survey and it was a fine morning of cool, highland jacket weather birding. You might enjoy looking for those in the Savegre Reserve, a brand new UNESCO biosphere reserve , and a favorite area for many birders visiting Costa Rica.

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Wood Warbler Names Done Right

10,000 Birds

I’d prefer something descriptive like Flamboyant , Orange-throated , or Fire-throated Warbler , but feel free to incorporate other evocative nicknames like fire-brand and torch bird. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense. NAMED FOR PLACES. Well, no more!

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“Valley of the Wild Geese”: Glengoyne 15 Year Old Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky

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Local accounts mention smoke wafting through the treetops from moonshine operations around Glengoyne long before the present distillery officially opened in 1833. Today, whisky production at Glengoyne is entirely legal, open and aboveboard. Gäss ( Geese ) (1922) by Swedish painter Bruno Liljefors (1860-1939).

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