Sentences with phrase «american ornithologist»

The 19th century American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter, Audubon was notable for his extensive studies documenting all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations and prints that depicted the birds in their natural habitats.

The island scrub jay was first described by American ornithologist Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1886 [3] and an archaeological specimen at site SCRI - 192 dating from 1780's -1812 on Santa Cruz Island is the earliest evidence of the bird in the historic period.

American ornithologist, John Cassin, published several major works in the 19th century describing and illustrating North American birds.

The great forest disturbances created by Passenger Pigeon megaflocks — which were described by American ornithologist John James Audubon as similar to tornadoes — were a constant variable in the formula of eastern forest habitats.

The drama of those poses earned Audubon criticism from his contemporaries, who compared his «lurid» birds with those of the Scottish - American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

The latest Supplement to the American Ornithologists» Union Check - list of North American Birds was published this week in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, and includes several major updates to the organization of the continent's bird species.

An audiovisual presentation by John Fitzpatrick, head of the Cornell Laboratory, was received by an ecstatic crowd at the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists» Union in Santa Barbara, California.

Already accepted as different species by the British Ornithologists» Union, the American Ornithologists» Union and other avian taxonomic committees are yet to classify the bird of prey as separate species.

About the journal: The Auk: Ornithological Advances is a peer - reviewed, international journal of ornithology that began in 1884 as the official publication of the American Ornithologists» Union.

It began in 1899 as the journal of the Cooper Ornithological Club, a group of ornithologists in California that became the Cooper Ornithological Society, which merged with the American Ornithologists» Union in 2016 to become the American Ornithological Society.

«Richard P. Grossenheider: The Artist,» is a biography that takes readers on a journey with an American ornithologists to see the great wildlife artists of his time, the art he created, and the animals he encountered in their native state while he suffered the usual travails other soldiers met in the Pacific during World War 2.

The cottage is named after John James Audubon, the patron saint of American ornithologists.

Not exact matches

Top ten bird sightings according to Senior Field Ornithologist Simon Perkins were: white - faced ibis, California gull, ruff, Lapland longspur, American golden - plover, common murre, pomarine jaeger, dickcissel, Kentucky warbler, and short - eared owl

The hermit thrush is a common, medium - sized, North American songbird whose song has attracted the attention of ornithologists and musicologists for more than a century.

Other birds, such as the American coot (Fulica Americana), the pied - billed grebe (Podilymbus podiceps), and the belted kingfishers (Megaceryle alcyon), showed up in more northerly locations than ornithologists expect in a normal year.

But the new study, which includes anatomical data extinct species preserved in the fossil record, narrows that window considerably, says Joel Cracraft, an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

My guides at this early hour of the morning, ornithologists Chris Filardi and Paul Sweet of the American Museum of Natural History, are frozen in reverence by the sight of what they assure me is a male American redstart, fanning its tail as it hops from branch to branch at the very top of a tree.

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He has been an army lieutenant; a naturalist with a book about the avifauna of Oceania to his credit; an ornithologist and skinner of birds for New York City's American Museum of Natural History; and an unreliable husband and father.

In the first of a two - part series (the first part of which aired Wednesday) on NPR's Morning Edition, American Bird Conservancy ornithologist Christine Sheppard described her research into how birds respond to different types of glass.

BIOGRAPHIES: From Waldo ABBOTT, Santa Barbara ornithologist, to American herpetologist, Richard George ZWEIFEL, ISLAPEDIA includes over 1000 biographies of people whose lives intersected with California's Channel Islands.

... By 1889, an American scientific journal carried an article by ornithologist William Brewster, who... noted that the last major nesting colony in Michigan, in 1881, «was only... eight miles long.»

In 1900, in the early days of the American conservation movement, ornithologist Frank Chapman organized a Christmas bird census.

The son of a Yale ornithologist, and birding since a child — not to mention the author of a collection of definitive guides to North American birds, of which more than 1.75 million copies have been sold all together — Sibley clearly does not need an iPhone to tell him what birds are in the vicinity.

I have two brothers who are PhD scientists in related fields (one is actually an ornithologist / conservation biologist, researching the impact of Central American agriculture on endangered species).