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One of the highlights of my trip to Texas last week, apart from the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, was a powerful presentation delivered by an expert in the business of franchising. The specifics of how we today are part of a service economy based on providing incredible customer experiences may or may not be interest you. It [...]

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I’m finally back from my long trip to the Lone Star state. As predicted, business kept me completely pinned down this time out, but my birding luck was good regardless. I was met at the airport by the usual contingent of Mourning Doves, European Starlings, and Great-tailed Grackles, the last a welcome departure from New [...]

Switching blogging platforms can introduce unexpected structural changes. When 10,000 Birds was published in FrontPage, the link 10000birds/index.htm brought a visitor to the site’s main page. Not anymore! If your link to 10,000 Birds (which I sincerely appreciate) brought you to this post, please change it to: http://10000birds.com

If you’re looking for awesome science, medicine, and nature blogging, the unlucky Friday the 13th edition of TB hosted by the Neurophilosopher could make this your lucky day.

In this world, there are tortoises and there are hares. Birding is hardly a hare’s game unless you’re racking up a Big Day. Birds are generally as put off by the combination of reckless speed and arrogant sloth as old Aesop was. No, if you want to enjoy bird watching to the fullest, take the [...]

Here I am, about to embark on a business trip to what is considered the birdiest state in the nation, and I’m very concerned that I won’t have a moment free to enjoy the avian abundance of the Lone Star State. However, where there’s a will, there’s a way. I’ve packed my bins (no camera [...]

The train for I and the Bird #34 is leaving the station. Make sure you’re on it! Get your bird blogging link to me or Pam (pshack AT email DOT arizona DOT edu) at Tortoise Trail by the end of the day.

The Daily Mail reports the discovery of a new, brightly colored bird on a remote mountain range in South America, the difficult-to-pronounce Yariguies Brush Finch: A British expert co-led the team which made the find during the first biological expedition to the Yariguies mountains in northern Colombia. Ms Blanca Huertas, a curator at the Natural [...]

That is, if you’re aligned with the inexplicable yet attractive Mets-Giants axis as I am. Considerably less good if you’re a Yankees or Jets fan.