Journal articles: 'Isabella Bird'

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Freer, Luanne. "Amazing Traveler Isabella Bird." Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 13, no. 2 (June 2002): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1580/1080-6032(2002)013[0176:br]2.0.co;2.

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McDonald, Mary G. "Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird." AAG Review of Books 9, no. 1 (January 2, 2021): 8–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2325548x.2021.1843903.

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Senica, Klemen. "Following in the Footsteps of Isabella Bird?" Asian Studies 9, no. 3 (September 10, 2021): 225–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/as.2021.9.3.225-257.

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Alma Karlin (1889–1950), a round-the-world traveller, intellectual, and writer from Celje, Slovenia, arrived in Japan and lived in Tokyo in the early 1920s, an era which historians consider to be an interim period between the initial expansion of the Japanese Empire to mainland Asia and its end in 1945. The writer’s fascination with the land can be inferred, among other things, from a 35-page description of Japan and the Japanese in her most famous book, Einsame Weltreise. Die Tragödie einer Frau (The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman), and passages in Reiseskizzen (Travel Sketches), an earlier work. The article aims to place these travel accounts in the historical and ideological contexts of their time while highlighting some similarities and differences between the representations of the land and its people by Karlin and those by Isabella Bird (1831–1904). Although Karlin makes no explicit reference to the famous British traveller in her writing on Japan, the article demonstrates that she must have known about Bird’s book Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. It is, above all, her decision to introduce her (German) readers to topoi that were typical of Victorian women’s travel writing which suggests that Karlin partly based her image of Japan, if not even the itinerary of her journey there, on Bird’s bestselling work. Nevertheless, Karlin does not seem to have conformed to the then dominant orientalist discourses on Japan, her representations generally showing none of the Western arrogance that was so typical of her fellow travellers of both sexes.

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Ruiz de Alegria Puig, Iratxe. "ISABELLA BIRD: UNA MIRADA FEMENINA EN LA CUMBRE." RAUDEM. Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 7 (September 14, 2020): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v7i0.2860.

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Contrariamente a lo que cabría esperar de un trabajo de montañerismo, que consistiría básicamente en un derroche de testosterona y parajes virginales deseosos de ser poseídos, el siguiente testimonio de mujer estaba destinado, desde su concepción, a revolucionar la tradición visual, y marcar un hito en la iconografía del paisaje de montaña. Todo apunta a que su intención era ofrecer un placer visual alternativo al que tradicionalmente busca el hombre blanco heterosexual. El objetivo de este estudio consiste precisamente en dar a conocer un discurso femenino de montaña. Para ello, he seleccionado la colección de cartas que la escritora y viajera Isabella Bird escribió a su hermana Henrietta, más tarde compiladas en la obra, A Lady A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879). A continuación, he buscado ejemplos de “mirada femenina” en contraposición a la tradicional omnisciente “mirada masculina”. El resultado obtenido refleja que a pesar del derroche de inocencia que podría presentar partir de viaje en aras de la salud, la aventura en solitario de esta mujer victoriana adquiere tintes de carácter trascendental. De hecho, tras siglos de tiranía patriarcal, qué mejor lugar para viajar sin compañía, vestir a su aire y subvertir la autoridad y placer masculino, que la montaña. Partiendo de estos hallazgos, sugiero que, valiéndose de la distancia, Bird da rienda suelta a su mirada, lo que le permitió escribir sobre un tema tabú como es el cuerpo de un hombre. Así que las “curvas” masculinas se presentan por primera vez como objeto de deseo tan seductoras como las femeninas, y esta pionera fue suficientemente valiente para dejarlo por escrito.

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Stearns, Precious McKenzie. "CIVILIZING HAWAII: ISABELLA BIRD BISHOP IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS." Victorian Literature and Culture 43, no. 2 (February 25, 2015): 357–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015031400059x.

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Nineteenth-century male European travel writers sometimes romanticize their destinations and dream they have arrived in untouched lands. The Hawaii Isabella Bird visited, however, was not an idyllic land, forgotten by time. Early in the nineteenth century, steamships crossed the Pacific, carrying goods and people from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. The trade in sandalwood and fur brought many foreign steamships into Hawaii (Kuykendall 15). It was not uncommon for American missionaries to arrive in Hawaii via whaling ships that stopped in Hawaii (Kuykendall 16, 41). Hawaii, with its position between mainland America and Asia, was a valuable and strategic piece of property. Isabella Bird Bishop's 1875 travel memoir The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands comments on the political situation the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) faced in the nineteenth century.

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Noriko, YUZAWA. "Kanasaka, K.: Isabella L. Bird and Tracks in Japan." Geographical review of Japan series A 88, no. 3 (May 1, 2015): 291–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4157/grj.88.291.

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Williams, Laurence, and Steve Clark. "Isabella Bird, Victorian globalism, andUnbeaten Tracks in Japan(1880)." Studies in Travel Writing 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2017.1301793.

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Kumojima, Tomoe. "“A strange thrill”: Isabella Bird and the fugitive community of travellers." Studies in Travel Writing 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 33–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2017.1298210.

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Clark, Steve. "Isabella Bird, Rudyard Kipling, and the “bandobast” of East Asian travel." Studies in Travel Writing 21, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 76–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2017.1303919.

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Park, Joohyun Jade. "MISSING LINK FOUND, 1880: THE RHETORIC OF COLONIAL PROGRESS IN ISABELLA BIRD’SUNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN." Victorian Literature and Culture 43, no. 2 (February 25, 2015): 371–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150314000606.

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InUnbeaten Tracks in Japan(1880), Isabella Bird, one of the most celebrated travel writers of her time and the first female member of the Royal Geographical Society, asserts that she has found “the ‘MISSING LINK’” in the deep interior of Japan, on the island of Hokkaido (270). According to Bird, a wizened individual barely resembling man sits “crouched” in front of a disheveled hut, showing no “signs of intelligence” (270). In fact, this “missing link” Bird purports to have discovered was one of the Ainu, the native people of Hokkaido, who suffered the consequences of Japanese developmental schemes. Bird's identification of the forlorn figure as the “missing link,” an anachronistic being that lacks history and culture, is puzzling, as she encounters this haggard man after having already spent several days with the Ainu in Biratory, a small village in Hokkaido. During her stay, the Ainu villagers constantly speak of the strained relationship between themselves and the Japanese, as well as their discontent at Japanese prohibitions on Ainu traditions. In other words, they divulge the oppressiveness of Japan's so-called “modernizing” regulations and policies, and they attempt to inform their visitor of the history between the two conflicting peoples. However, their efforts seem to be lost on Bird. Rather than interpret the Ainu individual's ruined body as a corporeal text on which the history of colonial violence and exclusion is imprinted, Bird judges the man's beastly existence to be the evidence of his people's inferiority.

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Tsunetoshi, MIZOGUCHI. "Kanasaka, K.: In the Footsteps of Isabella Bird: Adventures in Twin Time Travel." Geographical review of Japan series A 88, no. 3 (May 1, 2015): 283–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4157/grj.88.283.

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Roselezam, Wan, Wan Yahya, Farah Ghaderi, and Kamaruzaman Jusoff. "The Exotic Portrayal of Women in Isabella Bird Bishop'sJourneys in Persia and Kurdistan." Iranian Studies 45, no. 6 (November 2012): 779–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2012.726849.

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Osman, Sharifah Aishah. "LETITIA E. LANDON AND ISABELLA BIRD: FEMALE PERSPECTIVES OF ASIA IN THE VICTORIAN TEXT." Southeast Asian Review of English 52, no. 1 (December 30, 2015): 85–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol52no1.7.

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Scarce, Jennifer. "Isabella Bird Bishop (1831–1904) and Her Travels in Persia and Kurdistan in 1890." Iranian Studies 44, no. 2 (March 2011): 243–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00210862.2011.541693.

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Jaya, Akmal. "UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN : LETTER I Tinjauan Women Travellers and Travel Writing." Poetika 6, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/poetika.v6i2.40167.

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This research aims to show the influences of the power of discourse: genre, gender, and colonialism in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Lucy Bird. Some travel writing’s paradigms were used as theoretical background in this research, such Sara Mills and Carl Thompson. As an object of the research, the novel became the source of primary data. Another historical and cultural literary and also literary review of Unbeaten Tracks in Japan as secondary data. The result of the research examined that contestation of discourses implied the way of the author to preserve his stories.

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Scigliano, Marisa. "Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive." Charleston Advisor 22, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 39–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.22.2.39.

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Nineteenth Century Literary Society is drawn from archive of the House of John Murray publishing company, held by the National Library of Scotland. The family-run firm, with Scottish roots, spanned seven generations and flourished in London from 1768 until 2002. John Murray is especially remarkable for publishing seminal English-language works of the 19th century, including those by Charles Darwin, David Livingstone, Charles Lyell, and Samuel Smiles, the father of self-help. The largest collection of Lord Byron’s private writings and manuscripts, assembled by the publisher, form a large part of the resource. Women writers feature prominently in the John Murray’s collection, including Jane Austen, Isabella Bird, Elizabeth Eastlake, and Caroline Lamb.

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Akita, Shigeru. "Isabella Bird and Japan: A Reassessment, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas Pertwee Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Revisiting Isabella Bird. New Abridged Edition with Notes and Commentaries, written by Kiyonori Kanasaka and translated by Nicholas Pertwee." Asian Review of World Histories 9, no. 2 (July 16, 2021): 293–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22879811-12340096.

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Aniya, Masamu. "KANASAKA Kiyonori: Unbeaten Tracks in Japan, Revisiting Isabella Bird: New Abridged Edition with Notes and Commentaries." Geographical review of Japan series B 93, no. 1 (November 30, 2020): 27–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.4157/geogrevjapanb.93.27.

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Hansman, Dinah. "Tropical Gardens: The Myth and the Reality." Queensland Review 10, no. 2 (November 2003): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600003391.

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The myth of the ‘tropical garden’ probably originated with historical accounts of tropical rainforest. Charles Darwin, in 1822, described his first encounter with tropical rainforest thus: ‘Delight … is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest … the beauty of the flowers, the glossy green of the foliage, but above all the general luxuriance of the vegetation, filled me with admiration …’. About fifty years later, Isabella Bird wrote to her sister of her first impressions of Honolulu: ‘And beyond the reef and beyond the blue, nestling among cocoanut trees and bananas, umbrella trees and breadfruits, oranges, mangoes, hibiscus, algarroba [carob (Ceratonia siliqua)] and passion-flowers, almost hidden in the deep, dense greenery, was Honolulu’. These images of lushness, luxuriance, colour, warmth and the exotic carry on into the popular modern perception of the ‘tropical garden’.

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Ozawa, Shizen. "Re-imagining meetings with Isabella Bird: on Natsuki Ikezawa'sShizuka na Daichi(The Quiet Earth) and Yoko Tawada'sKyukei Jikan(Spherical Time)." Studies in Travel Writing 21, no. 4 (October 2, 2017): 369–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2017.1395110.

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Park, Jihang. "Land of the Morning Calm, Land of the Rising Sun: The East Asia Travel Writings of Isabella Bird and George Curzon." Modern Asian Studies 36, no. 3 (July 2002): 513–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x02003013.

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The developments in East Asia in the late nineteenth century became a matter of great interest to Britain. The rise of Japan and the wrangles among the great powers over China and Korea were some of the issues that put East Asia in the spotlight. In China, Western powers had been contending fiercely for economic and political hegemony since the Opium War. Japan, after abandoning its national policy of seclusion in 1854, carried out the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and was driving towards rapid Westernization. Here modernization took place in a relatively smooth manner and there was no need to fear external threats, but domestic tensions were inevitable. Finally Korea, after being forced to open its doors in 1876, suffered from acute dissensions between conservatives and progressives, and fierce competition between China, Japan and Russia over hegemony in Korea complicated the situation further.

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김보림. "A Study on English Perception of Japan in the Early Meiji Period ‒Focused on George Nathaniel Curzon, Arnold Henry Savage Landor, Isabella Bird Bishop‒." Japanese Modern Association of Korea ll, no. 45 (August 2014): 371–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.16979/jmak..45.201408.371.

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Malchikova, Svetlana. "A Victorian Lady in the Land of the Rising Sun: the Image of Japan in Isabella Bird’s «Unbeaten Tracks in Japan»." Izvestia of Smolensk State University, no. 3 (51) (November 2, 2020): 167–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.35785/2072-9464-2020-51-3-167-182.

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The article is devoted to the image of Japan and the Japanese in the book «Unbeaten Tracks in Japan» by Isabella Bird, a famous British traveler, a member of the Royal Geographical Society, an author of a number of works written during her many travels. In April, 1878 the Victorian woman arrived in the Land of the Rising Sun. In the search for the «real» Japan, she made her way through the countryside, in places where no European had ever set foot. The traveler, accompanied by a guide, visited many places untouched by foreigners, including Yozo (Hokkaido). The writer reflected the results of her impressions, observations and research in letters to her sister. They became the basis of her work «Unbeaten Tracks in Japan», which was created later. Throughout the XIX century, the British Empire expanded its borders, seized new territories and sought to strengthen its influence in other countries. For Japan, it was a period of political, economic and cultural upheavals. It was the time of an active clash with a foreign culture and rapid development. The Land of the Rising Sun entered the arena of international relations that, of course, attracted the Europeans’ attention. This article primarily examines Miss Bird’s perception of Japan, her assessment of culture, politics, art, the Japanese’s life, their characters. An important factor is the comparison of the image of «fabulous» Japan, which was created outside Japan, and the real Japan, where the writer traveled.

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Kang, Soohwan. "The Eyes of Three Foreign Traveler and Searching for the Universality Focused on the Travel Record of Jack London, Georges Ducrocq and Isabella Bird Bishop." Comparative Korean Studies 24, no. 2 (August 31, 2016): 127–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.19115/cks.24.2.4.

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Fruzińska, Justyna. "American Slavery Through the Eyes of British Women Travelers in the First Half of the 19th Century." Ad Americam 19 (February 8, 2019): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/adamericam.19.2018.19.08.

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My paper investigates 19th-century travel writing by British women visiting America: texts by such authors as Frances Trollope, Isabella Bird, or Frances Kemble. I analyze to what extent these travelers’ gender influences their view of race. On the one hand, as Tim Youngs stresses, there seems to be very little difference between male and female travel writing in the 19th century, as women, in order to be accepted by their audience, needed to mimic men’s style (135). On the other hand, women writers occasionally mention their gender, as for example Trollope, who explains that she is not competent enough to speak on political matters, which is why she wishes to limit herself only to domestic issues. This provision, however, may be seen as a mere performance of a conventional obligation, since it does not prevent Trollope from expressing her opinions on American democracy. Moreover, Jenny Sharpe shows how Victorian Englishwomen are trapped between a social role of superiority and inferiority, possessing “a dominant position of race and a subordinate one of gender” (11). This makes the female authors believe that as women they owe to the oppressed people more sympathy than their male compatriots. My paper discusses female writing about the United States in order to see how these writers navigate their position of superiority/inferiority.

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Mohiedin Khalkhali, Seyed, and Mohammad Kalhor. "Los problemas políticos de Irán desde el punto de vista de las mujeres viajeras en la era Nasseri." Apuntes Universitarios 11, no. 1 (November 17, 2020): 297–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.17162/au.v11i1.573.

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El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar los problemas políticos de Irán desde el punto de vista de las mujeres viajeras en la era Nasseri. Esta investigación se ha realizado mediante el método descriptivo y mediante el estudio de trabajos escritos e históricos. Los investigadores han extraído material examinando libros, artículos y escritos históricos. Asimismo, se recopila e soluciona los problemas de los pasajeros. Los resultados muestran que durante la Era Qajar, debido a la posición estratégica de Irán y el Golfo Pérsico, esta región fue de particular interés para las potencias internacionales superiores; por lo tanto, viajaban a Irán viajeros, estadistas, embajadores y comerciantes de muchos países europeos y no europeos. En estas delegaciones y grupos políticos extranjeros también hubo figuras femeninas, entre ellas Lady Sheil, Jane Dieulafoy, Gertrude Bell, Madame Wolfson, Isabella Bird Bishop y Carla Serena. Algunas de estas mujeres llegaron a Irán como miembros de delegaciones políticas y otras con fines turísticos o económicos. Con respecto a su estatus y posición, proporcionaron a los funcionarios de Qajar informes en los que abordaban los problemas políticos de Irán, como el fracaso del gobierno en la gestión de la salud pública y la justicia, el manejo de la inseguridad, la corrupción económica generalizada entre los estadistas y otras autoridades del gobierno de Qajar, opresiones, y similares. Según los resultados, se puede decir que la mayoría de estos problemas están relacionados con la estructura interna de Irán así como con la cultura iraní y algunas costumbres de esa época.

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Choi,Park-Kwang. "Modern Korea and the Competition of Powers in North-East Asia by the Viewpoint of Foreigner - The Travel Book, Korea and Her Neighbours, By J. R. Isabella Bird Bishop -." 아시아문화연구 15, no. ll (November 2008): 253–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.34252/acsri.2008.15..010.

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KECK, STEPHEN L. "Southeast Asia. Three exotic views of Southeast Asia: The travel narratives of Isabella Bird, Max Dauthendey, Ai Wu, 1850–1930. By MARIA NOELLE NG. White Plains, NY: Eastbridge, 2002. Pp. xiv, 212. Notes, Bibliography, Index." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 35, no. 2 (June 2004): 357–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463404220185.

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Kratter, Andrew W., David W. Steadman, Catherine E. Smith, Christopher E. Filardi, and Horace P. Webb. "Avifauna of a Lowland Forest Site on Isabel, Solomon Islands." Auk 118, no. 2 (April 1, 2001): 472–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/118.2.472.

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Abstract We provide the first comprehensive description of a bird community from a lowland rainforest site on a major island in the Solomon Islands. During two dry season visits (July 1997, June 1998) to the lower Garanga River valley on the island of Isabel, we recorded 65 resident and 6 migrant species of birds. We document relative abundances, habitat preferences, and foraging guilds for the members of the bird community. The Garanga River site sustains all but 11 of the 76 species of landbirds known from Isabel. Of those 11 species, four are small-island or beach specialists, three are montane, and four are of unknown status. Habitat heterogeneity, maintained largely by river dynamics, is a major contributor to avian diversity at the site. The avifauna is dominated by nonpasserines, especially parrots, pigeons, kingfishers, and hawks. The flightless rail Nesoclopeus woodfordi, previously regarded as rare and threatened with extinction, was common. We recorded Ixobrychus flavicollis, Falco severus, and Eudynamys scolopacea for the first time on Isabel. We also documented occurrence in the lowlands of Micropsitta finschii, Collocalia spodiopygia, Coracina caledonica, and Pachycephala pectoralis, four species previously thought to be confined to upper elevations on Isabel. The depauperate understory avifauna of the Garanga River site may be anthropogenic and could belie what otherwise seems to be an intact avifauna.

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de Roever, Arend. "Maria Noëlle Ng, Three Exotic Views of Southeast Asia: The Travel Narratives of Isabella Bird, Max Dautehndey, and Ai Wu, 1850-1930. White Plains, NY, and Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2002. xiv + 212 pp. ISBN 1-891936-18-2 (hbk.); 1-91936-05-0 (pbk.)." Itinerario 28, no. 2 (July 2004): 209–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s016511530001977x.

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EASON, PERRI, BASEM RABIA, and OMAR ATTUM. "Hunting of migratory birds in North Sinai, Egypt." Bird Conservation International 26, no. 1 (November 23, 2015): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270915000180.

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SummaryDuring autumn migration, people set trammel nets along most of the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, with migrating Common Quail Coturnix coturnix as their primary target. These nets capture large numbers of quail, but also illegally capture other birds, which are then killed. We present the results of surveys from 2008 to 2012 along these lines of nets on the coast of North Sinai, Egypt. In desert scrub, which covers most of the Sinai coast, the mean number of quail killed reached a high of 357.1 per km per day in 2012, with a grand mean over the study period of 191.9 per km per day. Trammel nets also captured 54 other bird species in 28 families. Species captured at the highest rates in desert scrub included Corncrake Crex crex, Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina and Greater Short-toed Lark Calandrella brachydactyla. Based on mean rates of capture from 2008 to 2012 in desert scrub and sand bar habitats, we estimate 2.0 million quail and 0.5 million birds of other species are killed annually in North Sinai during the 45 days of peak migration. In 2012, however, after the use of MP3 players to attract quail became widespread, we estimate that 3.3 million quail and 0.5 million other birds were captured. Hunters near the coast have recently begun covering shrubs and trees with mist nets to catch passerines. From 2010 to 2012, mist nets along our survey routes caught birds of 17 species in three families, with seven of these species caught only in this type of net. Hunting is likely to be a contributing factor to population declines for some species that migrate across Egypt and further studies of migratory bird hunting along the southern Mediterranean shore are badly needed.

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Mendes-Pinto, Maria M., Amy M. LaFountain, Mary Caswell Stoddard, Richard O. Prum, Harry A. Frank, and Bruno Robert. "Variation in carotenoid–protein interaction in bird feathers produces novel plumage coloration." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 9, no. 77 (July 25, 2012): 3338–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2012.0471.

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Light absorption by carotenoids is known to vary substantially with the shape or conformation of the pigment molecule induced by the molecular environment, but the role of interactions between carotenoid pigments and the proteins to which they are bound, and the resulting impact on organismal coloration, remain unclear. Here, we present a spectroscopic investigation of feathers from the brilliant red scarlet ibis ( Eudocimus ruber, Threskiornithidae), the orange-red summer tanager ( Piranga rubra, Cardinalidae) and the violet-purple feathers of the white-browed purpletuft ( Iodopleura isabellae, Tityridae). Despite their striking differences in colour, all three of these feathers contain canthaxanthin (β,β-carotene-4,4′-dione) as their primary pigment. Reflectance and resonance Raman (rR) spectroscopy were used to investigate the induced molecular structural changes and carotenoid–protein interactions responsible for the different coloration in these plumage samples. The results demonstrate a significant variation between species in the peak frequency of the strong ethylenic vibration ( ν 1 ) peak in the rR spectra, the most significant of which is found in I. isabellae feathers and is correlated with a red-shift in canthaxanthin absorption that results in violet reflectance. Neither polarizability of the protein environment nor planarization of the molecule upon binding can entirely account for the full extent of the colour shift. Therefore, we suggest that head-to-tail molecular alignment (i.e. J-aggregation) of the protein-bound carotenoid molecules is an additional factor.

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Arini, Diah Irawati Dwi. "Birds Species of Rallidae Family in Forestry and Environment Research and Development Institute of Manado." Jurnal Wasian 3, no. 1 (June 28, 2016): 09. http://dx.doi.org/10.20886/jwas.v3i1.888.

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This study aims to determine species and conservation status of Rallidae family in Forestry and Environment Research and Development Institute of Manado; also the prospect of its development. This study may provide a source of data and information on the diversity of certain bird species. Observations conducted in June 2015 included the species of birds in Rallidae family found around the Forestry and Environment Research and Development Institute of Manado. Data were analyzed descriptively in the forms of figures and tables. Results showed that there were three species within this family found in Manado Forestry Research Institute. Those were isabelline bush-hen (Amaurornis isabellina), buff-banded rail (Gallirallus philippensis), and Barred Rail (Gallirallus torquatus). All three species are not protected in Indonesia and IUCN categorized them as Least Concern (LC). Isabelline bush-hen is endemic to the island of Sulawesi, while buff-banded rail and barred rail have a wide distribution. Weris has a good prospect to be domesticated.

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Ford, J. F. "The Yangtze Valley and Beyond. An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province ofSzechuan and among theMan-tze of the Somo Territory. By Isabella Bird, with a new Introduction by Pat Barr. [London: First published John Murray, 1899; reproduced and published by Virago Press Ltd, 1985. 547 pp. £6.50.]." China Quarterly 108 (December 1986): 740–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s030574100003736x.

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Fessl, Birgit, Glyn H. Young, Richard P. Young, Jorge Rodríguez-Matamoros, Michael Dvorak, Sabine Tebbich, and John E. Fa. "How to save the rarest Darwin's finch from extinction: the mangrove finch on Isabela Island." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365, no. 1543 (April 12, 2010): 1019–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0288.

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Habitat destruction and predation by invasive alien species has led to the disappearance of several island populations of Darwin's finches but to date none of the 13 recognized species have gone extinct. However, driven by rapid economic growth in the Galápagos, the effects of introduced species have accelerated and severely threatened these iconic birds. The critically endangered mangrove finch ( Camarhynchus heliobates ) is now confined to three small mangroves on Isabela Island. During 2006–2009, we assessed its population status and monitored nesting success, both before and after rat poisoning. Population size was estimated at around only 100 birds for the two main breeding sites, with possibly 5–10 birds surviving at a third mangrove. Before rat control, 54 per cent of nests during incubation phase were predated with only 18 per cent of nests producing fledglings. Post-rat control, nest predation during the incubation phase fell to 30 per cent with 37 per cent of nests producing fledglings. During the nestling phase, infestation by larvae of the introduced parasitic fly ( Philornis downsi ) caused 14 per cent additional mortality. Using population viability analysis, we simulated the probability of population persistence under various scenarios of control and showed that with effective management of these invasive species, mangrove finch populations should start to recover.

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Paulusma, Polly. "“Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage”: Avianthropes and the Embodiment of the Canorographic Voice in Angela Carter’s “The Erl-King” and Nights at the Circus." Contemporary Women's Writing 15, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpab008.

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Abstract Renowned for her fiction, Angela Carter was also a folk singer in the 1960s, played English concertina, and cofounded a folk club. A newly unearthed archive of her notes, musical notations, and recordings provides a window into her folk song praxis. When juxtaposed with her diaries, album sleeve notes, and unpublished papers, a new understanding of Carter’s writing processes emerges. This essay explores her “canorographic” writing or “songful” writing, embodied in avianthropes: the bird-girls in “The Erl-King” and Fevvers in Nights at the Circus. I compare Child Ballad “Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight,” Ovid’s Philomel, and Petrarch’s nightingale with Carter’s bird-women to show how her tropes transcode the singing voice into prose, disclosing the porous boundaries between literature and song and reimagining prose as performance.

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Webb, Horace P. "Field Observations of the Birds of Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands." Emu - Austral Ornithology 92, no. 1 (March 1992): 52–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mu9920052.

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Shevtsov, Vladislav, Alma Kairzhanova, Alexandr Shevtsov, Alexandr Shustov, Ruslan Kalendar, Sarsenbay Abdrakhmanov, Larissa Lukhnova, Uinkul Izbanova, Yerlan Ramankulov, and Gilles Vergnaud. "Genetic diversity of Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica in Kazakhstan." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15, no. 5 (May 17, 2021): e0009419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009419.

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Tularemia is a highly dangerous zoonotic infection due to the bacteria Francisella tularensis. Low genetic diversity promoted the use of polymorphic tandem repeats (MLVA) as first-line assay for genetic description. Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is becoming increasingly accessible, opening the perspective of a time when WGS might become the universal genotyping assay. The main goal of this study was to describe F. tularensis strains circulating in Kazakhstan based on WGS data and develop a MLVA assay compatible with in vitro and in silico analysis. In vitro MLVA genotyping and WGS were performed for the vaccine strain and for 38 strains isolated in Kazakhstan from natural water bodies, ticks, rodents, carnivores, and from one migratory bird, an Isabellina wheatear captured in a rodent burrow. The two genotyping approaches were congruent and allowed to attribute all strains to two F. tularensis holarctica lineages, B.4 and B.12. The seven tandem repeats polymorphic in the investigated strain collection could be typed in a single multiplex PCR assay. Identical MLVA genotypes were produced by in vitro and in silico analysis, demonstrating full compatibility between the two approaches. The strains from Kazakhstan were compared to all publicly available WGS data of worldwide origin by whole genome SNP (wgSNP) analysis. Genotypes differing at a single SNP position were collected within a time interval of more than fifty years, from locations separated from each other by more than one thousand kilometers, supporting a role for migratory birds in the worldwide spread of the bacteria.

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Tsvelykh, A. N., and V. M. Kucherenko. "Settlement dynamics of the Isabelline Wheatear Oenanthe isabellina (Temm.) on the Crimean Peninsula." “Branta”: Transactions of the Azov-Black Sea Ornithological Station 2020, no. 23 (December 17, 2020): 17–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/branta2020.23.017.

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The expansion of Oenanthe isabellina in Ukraine began at the end of 1950s - early 1960s. The Isabelline Wheatear settled along the coast of the Sea of Azov from east to west and appeared on the Crimean Peninsula later than in the regions located to the west of it. Since the late 1960s, this species has been nesting near the mouth of the Dnipro River which located in the west of the Crimean Peninsula. The nesting of Oenanthe isabellina was found in the northern part of the Crimean Peninsula in 1973. In the mid-1980s, the Isabelline Wheatear inhabited the northwestern coast of Crimea and appeared far in the east - on the Kerch Peninsula. In the southeastern part of the peninsula the range of the Wheatear reached the Black Sea coast by the end of the 1980s, when the species nesting was found near Feodosia. In the southeastern part of Crimea, the Isabelline Wheatear continued to settle along the Black Sea coast in a westerly direction in the 1990s: its nesting was found near Sudak. In the central Crimea, the species range reached the northern foothills of the Crimean Mountains at this time. The species expansion to the south slowed down by the beginning of the 2000s. In the western Crimea, the southernmost settlement of the Isabelline Wheatear was found near Evpatoria. In the northern foothills of the Crimean Mountains (Central Crimea), the range border has not changed. There were no significant changes in the southeastern Crimea during this period - in the 2000s, O. isabellina nested near Sudak as in the 1990s. The species expansion almost stopped in Crimea in the 2010s. The settling of the Isabelline Wheatear in the steppe regions of the southwestern Crimea did not occur, possibly due to the absence of little ground squirrel settlements, whose burrows birds usually use for nesting. The border of the O. isabellina range has moved southward on about 100 km for three decades - from the beginning of the 1970s to the beginning of the 2000s -, i.e. the settlement speed of the species in Crimea was about 3 km per year.

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Langen, Tom A., Michael R. Twiss, George S. Bullerjahn, and Steven W. Wilhelm. "Pelagic Bird Survey on Lake Ontario Following Hurricane Isabel, September 2003: Observations and Remarks on Methodology." Journal of Great Lakes Research 31, no. 2 (January 2005): 219–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0380-1330(05)70252-5.

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Smith, Kimberly G. "A Guide to the Birds of the Galápagos Islands Isabel Castro Antonia Phillips." Condor 100, no. 1 (February 1998): 193. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1369924.

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Steadman, David W. "A Guide to the Birds of the Galápagos Islands Isabel Castro Antonia Phillips." Auk 116, no. 1 (January 1999): 293–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4089489.

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Dewi, K., and L. Zhang. "Two new species of spiruroid nematodes in birds from Kangean Island, Indonesia." Journal of Helminthology 84, no. 3 (October 20, 2009): 245–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x09990599.

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AbstractTwo new species of spiruroid nematodes in birds from Kangean Island, Indonesia are reported: Diplotriaena anthreptis sp. nov. is found from the abdominal cavity of Anthreptes malacensis malacensis. The new species is similar to D. ozouxi, D. bargusinica, D. delta, D. isabellina and D. obtusa in the size of tridents and the length of spicules. However, it differs from the five similar species in the structure of the tridents, in the morphology of the right spicule, in the spicule ratio and in the size of the eggs. Acuaria irhami sp. nov. is described based on two male specimens from under the gizzard lining of Dicrurus hottentottus jentincki. The new species can be distinguished easily from all congeners except from A. microecae, in having equal rather than subequal or dissimilar spicules. However, the new species can be differentiated from A. microecae in the number of postanal papillae, in the median preanal papilla and in the length of the cordons.

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Long, Margherita. "Humanism and the Hikari Event." positions: asia critique 28, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 421–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8112496.

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This article tells the story of one reader’s search for an environmental humanities approach to the work of Ōe Kenzaburō. When the Fukushima Power Plant melted down in March 2011, Ōe had already been an antinuclear activist for almost fifty years. Yet the conviction that drove his opposition had always been humanist rather than environmental. Even after the disaster, he continued to address nuclear toxicity as a problem to be tackled with the power of language: the power to resist, to speak truth, to participate in democracy. But what if what Ōe has been saying for decades implicitly about his disabled son Hikari’s musical sensibility were more interesting for an ecological politics than what he repeated explicitly after the disaster? This article discusses the Hikari figure’s relation to music in two texts, both referenced by Ōe in his post–3.11 activism: a 1991 short story called “Hi o megurasu tori” 火をめぐらす鳥 (“Light Circling Bird”), and a 2009 novel called Suishi 水死 (Death by Water). I read these texts along with Isabelle Stengers’s 2009 ecomanifesto In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism to argue that the disabled musician offers powerful tools for environmental engagement.

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Grant, W. R. Ogilvie. "On the Birds of the Philippine Islands.-Part III.* The Mountains of the Province of Isabella, in the extreme North-east of Luzon." Ibis 37, no. 1 (June 28, 2008): 106–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1895.tb06512.x.

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Menin, Marcelo, Vinicius Tadeu de Carvalho, Alexandre P. Almeida, Marcelo Gordo, Deyla P. Oliveira, Luciana F. Luiz, Juliana V. Campos, and Tomas Hrbek. "Amphibians from Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Brazilian Amazonia." Phyllomedusa: Journal of Herpetology 16, no. 2 (December 21, 2017): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9079.v16i2p183-199.

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A species list of amphibians from Santa Isabel do Rio Negro in Brazilian Amazonia is provided. Collections were made from March–April 2012 along each of two 3-km trails with the following sampling methods: (1) pitfall traps with drift fences; (2) visual and auditory surveys; and (3) chance encounters. The trail at Daraá is north of the Rio Negro, whereas the other in Ayuanã is south of the river. Forty species of anurans and one salamander species representing 20 genera and nine families were recorded. The species composition was compared with those of 16 other studies conducted in the Guiana, Imeri, and Jaú areas of endemism, where species richness varies from 21–63, and similarity indices range from 23–100%. The anuran fauna at our sites resembles that of Flota Faro in eastern Amazonia more than it does that of the nearest site in the Departamento del Guainía of Colombia. The index of similarity is extremely variable between sites of the same and distinct areas of endemism. This pattern also was observed in the cluster analysis. As expected, geographically close areas have similar faunal compositions. However, the anuran fauna of Parque Nacional do Jaú (Jaú area of endemism) resembles that of Manaus (Guiana area of endemism) more closely than it does that of the Ayuanã River, which belongs to the same area of endemism as Parque Nacional do Jaú. The limits of the areas of endemism are better defined by the presence / absence of other terrestrial vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, than by the assemblage of amphibians and squamate reptiles.

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Petren, Kenneth, Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, Andrew A. Clack, and Ninnia V. Lescano. "Multilocus genotypes from Charles Darwin's finches: biodiversity lost since the voyage of the Beagle." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365, no. 1543 (April 12, 2010): 1009–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0316.

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Genetic analysis of museum specimens offers a direct window into a past that can predate the loss of extinct forms. We genotyped 18 Galápagos finches collected by Charles Darwin and companions during the voyage of the Beagle in 1835, and 22 specimens collected in 1901. Our goals were to determine if significant genetic diversity has been lost since the Beagle voyage and to determine the genetic source of specimens for which the collection locale was not recorded. Using ‘ancient’ DNA techniques, we quantified variation at 14 autosomal microsatellite loci. Assignment tests showed several museum specimens genetically matched recently field-sampled birds from their island of origin. Some were misclassified or were difficult to classify. Darwin's exceptionally large ground finches ( Geospiza magnirostris ) from Floreana and San Cristóbal were genetically distinct from several other currently existing populations. Sharp-beaked ground finches ( Geospiza difficilis ) from Floreana and Isabela were also genetically distinct. These four populations are currently extinct, yet they were more genetically distinct from congeners than many other species of Darwin's finches are from each other. We conclude that a significant amount of the finch biodiversity observed and collected by Darwin has been lost since the voyage of the Beagle .

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Evrard, Quentin, Olivier J. Hardy, Nikki Tagg, and Jean-Louis Doucet. "Removal and predation of aril-covered seeds: the case of Afzelia bipindensis (Fabaceae – Detarioidae)." Plant Ecology and Evolution 152, no. 3 (November 28, 2019): 460–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2019.1552.

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Background and aims – Most tree species with aril-covered seeds are assumed to be dispersed by frugivores. However, the number of studied African rainforest plant species remains low. This study focused on Afzelia bipindensis, an important timber species, which produces seeds partly covered by an aril. Specifically, this study aimed to: (1) identify the dispersers and the predators of A. bipindensis seeds, (2) characterize the role of those dispersers and predators in the regeneration process, and (3) understand the role of the aril in seed germination in relation to the feeding behaviour of the identified dispersers. Methods – The study took place in a Gabonese evergreen rainforest in 2015 and in a Cameroonian semi-deciduous rainforest in 2016 and 2017. We conducted more than 100 hours of direct observations, and used camera traps to monitor animal activities for 3000 hours within the canopy and 10 000 hours on the ground under fruiting trees. Key results – Three rodent taxa (Cricetomys emini, Funisciurus isabella and an undetermined species of Muridae) were mainly observed interacting with the seeds but neither birds nor monkeys were observed. Rodents removed more than 90% of the seeds, after detaching the aril, to probably cache them in burrows or superficial caches. Seeds from which we manually removed the aril (mimicking rodent behaviour) had a higher germination rate.Conclusions – Rodents may play a more important role than expected in the dynamics of tree species producing aril-covered seeds.

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DeCicco, Lucas H., Serina S. Brady, Sati Hamilton, Adrian Havimana, Xena M. Mapel, Jenna M. McCullough, Karen V. Olson, et al. "Notes on the birds of Isabel, Solomon Islands, including the first record since 1927 of Island Leaf Warbler Phylloscopus maforensis." Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139, no. 4 (December 16, 2019): 311. http://dx.doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v139i4.2019.a2.

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B. Rivera, Ronald. "Enhanced Attendance Monitoring System using Biometric Fingerprint Recognition." International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering 9, no. 5 (January 30, 2021): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.e5070.019521.

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In this study, an enhanced attendance monitoring system using biometric fingerprint recognition in tracking and monitoring employees’ attendances for Callang National High School, District 04, San Manuel, Isabela was introduced. For most organizations, handling people is a daunting job in which it is very important to maintain an accurate record of attendance. Taking and maintaining the attendance of employee manually on a regular basis is a big activity that requires time. For this reason an effective system was designed. The system was designed and developed primarily to improve the monitoring of employees attendances and leave management through the use of biometric technology. It records the data of the employees, handles leave management, tracks employee attendance and encourages participation through fingerprint recognition. The system is equipped with a dashboard monitoring system that can be viewed by school heads to track the list of employees, early birds (employees who arrived early), on-leave staff, on-official business and a statistical graph of the monthly attendance rate of employees. Moreover, the system provides an auto-generated DTR for employees which saved time compared to the manual process. The innovation greatly affects the improvement of employees’ attendance through its automated attendance monitoring, leave management and report generated by the system. The impact of EAMS to the employees was identified through first quarter attendance report of SY 2028-2019 which served as a bases of comparison with the attendance rate of SY 2019-2020 when the system was implemented. The outcome shows that through the usage of the system, employees’ attendance has improved.

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