Sentences with phrase «ornithology in»

Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.

He has recently co-curated Graphic Matters: George Bellows and World War I and Bird Watching: Audubon and Ornithology in Early America.

In addition, COLCA TREK regularly provides seminars and courses to its team, covering various topics such as flora and ornithology in the Colca canyon, among others.

He's a bird researcher at Sovon, the Dutch Center for Field Ornithology in Nijmegen.

Eva Luef, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, made the discovery by watching groups of wild western lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo.

Now, Hans Wallraff of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, has shown that the atmosphere does contain the necessary information to help pigeons find their way home.

In the new study, a team led by molecular ecologist Silke Steiger and her graduate adviser Bart Kempenaers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Starnberg, Germany, searched for smell - related genes in nine species representing seven major branches of the avian family tree.

To find out how they form new relationships, Miriam Sima at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany and her colleagues studied crows that were unfamiliar to each other.

«They think it's an opening,» says Stefan Greif of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany.

To find out why, Carol Gilsenan at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Munich, Germany, and her colleagues studied over 100 breeding pairs for eight years.

More than 2 million eared grebes stage at the Great Salt Lake amid a yearly winter migration from Canada and U.S. states west of the Mississippi River, according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York.

In 2011, Emily Doolittle was composer - in - residence at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, where she collaborated with ornithologist Henrik Brumm in researching song of the musician wren, gathered birdsongs for future musical use, and presented a concert of her birdsong - related works, performed by members of the Bavarian State Opera.

Behavioral ecologist Bart Kempenaers works most of the year at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, where the sun sets every night like it's supposed to.

Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is «immensely valuable» because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.

To see if they make these noises in the wild, Eva Luef, a primatologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, observed two groups of wild western lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo.

According to Steve Kelling, director of information science at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in New York, who runs the project together with the New York - based National Audubon Society, «the challenge now is to try to do something meaningful with all these data.»

The ultimate goal is to «try to understand what might be the mechanism that lowers the stress response» in larger brained birds, says Michaela Hau of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Munich, Germany.

Stefan Greif of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and his colleagues put bats to the test in a flight tunnel.

The study provides valuable confirmation of the idea that ancient penguins swapped flight for underwater prowess, known as the tradeoff hypothesis, says Chris Thaxter, a seabird ecologist at the British Trust for Ornithology in Thetford, U.K. «This is a major step forward... in understanding how the tradeoff hypothesis works.»

Finally, Niels Rattenborg from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen hopes that «this naturally occurring variation in REM sleep during a period of brain development can be used to reveal exactly what REM sleep does for the developing brain in baby owls, as well as humans.»

With the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany and a company called Desert Star Systems in California, he plans to attach four small disks containing Helmholtz coils to a shark's head, two above and two beneath, like buns on a shark sandwich.

GBBC, now in its 15th year, is a joint effort by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York, and the National Audubon Society, headquartered in New York City.

Mihai Valcu and Bart Kempenaers from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen together with colleagues from New Zealand and Switzerland have now tested this theory using a comprehensive database on estimates of maximum life - span of 1396 bird species, 1128 from free - living species and 268 from birds kept in captivity.

How Kelling, or anyone here at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y., can concentrate on work is a mystery.

To settle this question, Niels Rattenborg at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and his colleagues fitted small brain activity monitors and movement trackers to 14 great frigatebirds.

Using specially designed methods to record song and brain activity, a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen has now found the neuronal basis of unlearned call communication.

Bart Kempenaers of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Seewiesen, Germany, and colleagues tracked 149 birds living near Barrow in Alaska.

By radiocarbon dating guano samples at 13 gyrfalcon nest sites in Arctic regions of west Greenland, Kurt Burnham of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology in Oxford, UK, and colleagues showed that some sites have been occupied for at least 2500 years.

The lady was Mrs. M. M. Nice, she had lived in Germany for a time and knew the literature of ornithology in at least two languages.

Not exact matches

I noted above his work in psychology and ornithology, but it is also worth remembering that he minored in English Literature at Harvard.

In a lifetime which spans the best part of a century, he has been a prolific writer on topics ranging from neoclassical theism, the ontological argument for the existence of God, and philosophical psychology, to aesthetics, pacifism, and ornithology.

Adapted from Mass Audubon Joppa Flats» successful Birder's Certificate Program and International Intern Program, the Certificate Program in Bird Ecology educates Latin American naturalist guides and teachers about the fundamentals of ornithology, leadership skills (especially for leading birders from North America), and bird conservation.

Joppa Flats launches Certificate Program in Bird Ecology in Belize to educate naturalist guides and teachers about the fundamentals of ornithology, leadership skills (especially for leading birders from North America), and bird conservation.

Instead we are now asking our members and friends to join us in becoming participants the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Great Backyard Bird Count.

David Larson is Director of Mass Audubon's Birder's Certificate Program, a college - level ornithology course, and has taught a bird ecology course for naturalist guides in Belize.

Throughout his long career, he tolerated dentistry but was fulfilled by his work in ornithology.

His interest in ornithology, in fact, far exceeded his interest in dentistry.

He wrote articles for ornithology journals and published his photographs in Audubon and National Geographic.

The idea grew out of a lecture in my ornithology class I was teaching at Kansas, on how feathers grow.

It was given by Ray Paynter, who was a very minor figure in ornithology and, by many secondhand accounts, a really unpleasant guy.

Titled «Origin, Paleoecology and Extirpation of Bluebirds and Crossbills in the Bahamas Across the Last Glacial - Interglacial Transition,» the authors are Janet Franklin, distinguished professor of biogeography in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and David Steadman, curator of ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

Deborah Ferraro writes, «In addition to being an avid pteridologist, Patches finds that ferns also provide an excellent vantage point (i.e. hiding place) for her other interest, ornithology.»

Soon she went abroad to train further in field ornithology.

The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

For example with our colleagues from the Chicago Field Museum, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with support from the McArthur Foundation we have been able to implement for almost 10 years management plans that we developed in joint expeditions with Cuban scientists and the people from protected areas.

Launched in 2002 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and National Audubon Society, eBird documents the presence or absence of species, as well as bird abundance through checklist data.

For the last 12 years the lab of ornithology had been involved in research and conservation and training, building of capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba.

A modest effort to enlist amateur bird - watchers in the cause of ornithology wound up producing a fire hose of data and helping rewrite the rules of science

We have recently discovered that the UK's cuckoos winter in the Congo rainforest, thanks to satellite tracking by the British Trust for Ornithology.

Yet more than 40 percent of these papers only mentioned volunteers in the acknowledgements, while another roughly 40 percent did not use the term volunteers at all, simply mentioning the name of the group that provided the data, like the British Trust for Ornithology's Common Birds Census.