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FDA phasing out animal testing in preclinical safety studies

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The Food and Drug Administration has announced its plan to phase out its animal testing requirement for preclinical safety studies in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs.

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The Residence: A Commentary on the TV Show

10,000 Birds

Is Cordelia Cupp the birder we have been waiting for? The cinematic representation of our passion, presented to the world as both the smartest person in the room and the quirkiest person in the building? Is this how we look to the world? Is this how we want the world to see us? Let’s talk a bit about The Residence and other representations of birders (and birding) in film and television.

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Rough Seas Ahead: Preparing for Recession

Sales and Marketing Management

Now is the time to fortify your organization for the rough seas ahead. Five strategies most experts agree will help contend with a recession. The post Rough Seas Ahead: Preparing for Recession appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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How Updating Your Long-Term SEO Strategy Delivers Best Results

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When Google launched its AI Overview (AIOs) feature last year, advertisers and SEO specialists panicked. They feared all their hard work to reach the top of the SERP would no longer work. If youre selling SEO services, the latest BrightEdge report contains good information about how to change the long-term SEO strategy for your accounts. How Search Is Changing Analysts have speculated that the increasing popularity of AI platforms would shift consumer search activity away from Google.

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Habitat protections for endangered species in doubt from proposed rule change

AVMA News

For decades government agencies have understood habitat degradation as harmful to protect animals under the Endangered Species Act. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing a narrow interpretation of the law that would eliminate those protections.

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Ask a Birder: Which Bird Species Do Well in Cities?

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Given that urbanization continues, this is certainly a highly relevant question – but how to find the answer? Researchers from UCLA took an interesting approach. They combined data from eBird (to see which species are where) and data showing nighttime illumination (to identify urban areas).

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Mid-Year Sales Funnel Check: Are You Missing a Big Opportunity?

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Smart sellers know that a mid-year sales funnel check ensures theyre on the right track. A lot can happen in the first six months of the year. Pausing to look over your funnels health helps identify any issues that can cause trouble ahead. As SalesFuel has reported, most salespeople believe their sales funnel is good enough. But they also report struggling with closing sales in their prospected time frame.

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Amazon, Tractor Supply now offering online pet pharmacies

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While companies like Amazon and Tractor Supply capitalize on a post-pandemic world hyper-focused on digital convenience by jumping into the growing online pet pharmacy market, veterinarians still have a key advantage, industry experts advise.

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Bird Guides of the World: Stan Shadick, Canada

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What is your favorite bird species? The Whooping Crane is my favorite bird species for many reasons. This magnificent white bird with a red crown and black flight feathers is the tallest bird in North America. Although still an endangered species, it is a wildlife conservation success story.

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How to Use Social Selling to Drive B2B Sales on LinkedIn

Sales and Marketing Management

Learn how to use social selling to drive B2B sales on LinkedIn. Explore strategies like profile optimization and measuring social selling index scores. The post How to Use Social Selling to Drive B2B Sales on LinkedIn appeared first on Sales & Marketing Management.

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Transactional or Consultative Sales Process — Which Works Better?

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B2B sellers are adopting a more consultative sales process to better serve their customers needs and expectations. Their evolving role is forced by increased financial scrutiny and the ever-expanding crew of influencers and decision makers. Consequently, traditional transaction-focused methods are giving way to more strategic, business-oriented mindsets.

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Virginia latest state to tackle large animal veterinarian shortage

AVMA News

States with an unmet demand for large animal and rural veterinary services are finding ways of incentivize veterinarians to provide these essential services.

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Species Spotlight: Painted Stork

10,000 Birds

While my natural grumpiness typically leads me to make fun of even halfway sensible bird names, I am perfectly fine with the common name of the Painted Stork. Not so much with the scientific name Mycteria leucocephala though – how anyone can call this bird white-headed is a mystery to me.

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Summer Birds, Winter Birds, and Residents

10,000 Birds

From what I understand, a majority of our readers are from northern climes in the United States, Canada and Europe. For these readers, birds either belong to the migratory majority, seen only in the summer, or to a much smaller group of year-round resident species. Down here in central Mexico, our situation is more complicated. The largest group of species we see consists of resident birds.

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A disappointing day? Not really.

10,000 Birds

My birding trips to North Norfolk are always enjoyable, usually productive. Yesterday’s outing, though, was disappointing. The weather was miserable, with grey, cloudy skies, showers of rain and a temperature that didn’t budge much above 15degC all day. It was windy, too, which made finding birds difficult, and made it feel much colder.

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Curious How to Make A Sale with Cold Calls?

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Have you ever wondered how to make a sale with cold calls these days? While once a go-to method, its become common to make cold outreaches via email. But cold calls shouldnt be counted out yet. Hubspot reports that approximately 80% of sales organizations have used cold calling, and for nearly a quarter, its a primary strategy. Only 12% have moved away from it.

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Why Linear TV Advertising Still Drives Powerful Results for Marketers

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U.S. consumers are changing their TV-viewing habits. Some of your accounts may be asking whether its time to adjust their TV advertising. The latest research shows that while CTV viewing time is increasing, linear TV ads can still deliver for advertisers. An Analysis of Consumer TV-viewing Time How did U.S. consumers watch TV in March 2025? Nielsen has some answers.

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Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases – January 18-21, 2025

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The Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases (CRWAD) held its annual conference from January 18-21 in Chicago. The CRWAD presented awards and named fellows.

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In Memory – June 5, 2025

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Veterinarian obituaries in the In Memory section of the Journal of the AVMA, June 5, 2025

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Top 15 Countries by Endemic Bird Species

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I thought this would be an easy post to prepare – just get the data and paste it in here. However, as you see from the chart above, the answers depend very much on the source. I checked a site named Our World in Data (red bars), Wikipedia (blue bars), and ChatGPT (not included in the chart as the data seemed even less reliable).

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Birding Lodges of the World: Neal’s Lodges, Texas, USA

10,000 Birds

Which bird species do you think is the biggest attraction to visitors of your lodge? Golden-cheeked Warbler (below with Painted Bunting and Green Jay) What is the name of your lodge, and since when has your lodge been operating? Neal’s Lodges. We have been operating since 1926 How best to travel to your lodge?

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Birding Shanghai in May 2025

10,000 Birds

So, how was Shanghai birding in May – often the best month of the year? Well, it included an owl, always a good thing. eBird calls the Northern Boobook “a slender brown owl with comically expressive golden eyes” To me, it looks identical to the Brown Boobook from which it was split – but apparently, its vocalization is very different.

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Speaker: tara and tori

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Galapagos Seabirds – Part One

10,000 Birds

The Galapagos Islands, some 600 km off the Pacific coast of Ecuador, are best known for the species that Charles Darwin took a special note of and which helped him in the formulation of his ideas of evolution by natural selection. Darwin’s finches are high on this list as are the giant tortoises, the marine and the land iguanas.

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Three Photos: The Beauty of Migration at Nanhui, Shanghai

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Pallas’s Rosefinch, Nanhui, Shanghai, China, October 22, 2023 Black Paradise Flycatcher, Nanhui, Shanghai, China, May 18, 2024 Blue-and-white Flycatcher, Nanhui, Shanghai, China, September 24, 2024 Photos by Falk Wirsam… Source

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Birding Kruger National Park – Punda Maria

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My family visited Kruger National Park on average twice a year over the 11 years we lived in South Africa, and despite the longer drive than the southern areas of the park, the Punda Maria camp in the northernmost section of Kruger was one of our favourite areas.

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Week 18: Skukuza Rest Camp area

10,000 Birds

This post was originally published in 2018. It is republished in our “From the Archives” series, featuring highlights of our vast back catalog of more than 10,000 birding-related posts published over the last 15 years or so. I find it very hard to believe that it is June already! Unfortunately, it is, and we are now on our third installment of the Southern Africa portion of this trip.

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Webinar 8/18/23

Speaker: Steve Romanco

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How to Use Employee Engagement Metrics to Boost Retention

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Are your managers falling short when it comes to supporting Gen Z and millennial team members? If so, your organization could be facing unnecessary turnover in the near future. New research shows that younger generations have big expectations from their managers. These expectations require managers to pay attention to employee engagement metrics. Are Managers Providing Support?

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Don't Overlook B2B Event Marketing As A Way To Deliver Valuable Leads

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In the next year, 26% of B2B operators expect strong growth, while 50% expect moderate growth. But the economic uncertainty is causing a cautious approach for 55%. Over 40% are shifting some marketing spending to the second half of the year. B2B event marketing appears to be one form of outreach these businesses are investing in across the board, reports Plural Strategy Group.