Sentences with phrase «collected by amateur»

Maps made more than seventy years ago and records collected by amateur naturalists between the World Wars are providing new clues about declining pollinator numbers, ecologists have found.

Definitely, according to the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), an annual tally of bird sightings collected by amateur birders across the United States and Canada.

Not exact matches

He was lucky to not get collected by anyone else, and was fuming afterwards, calling it «amateur» and saying over team radio:

Founded in 1857, the Chicago Academy of Sciences was founded by nature aficionados and amateur scientists seeking a space where they could study and share the specimens they collected.

It is a wonderful example of how the collecting passion of an amateur motivated by Western aesthetic concerns can, through intellectual curiosity and broad - mindedness, facilitate an understanding of a non-Western culture.

During the 19th century many amateur botanists collected ferns and grew them in glass Wardian cases, invented by one Nathaniel Ward in the 1820s to maintain humidity and keep out the pollution that had choked ferns in his garden.

The Museum of Bad Art, founded in 1994 and now with three galleries in the Boston area, collects works by amateurs that, as its website says, have «a special quality that sets them apart in one way or another from the merely incompetent.»

Turn one way, you will see amateur snapshot interpretations collected by Dutch artist Rein Jelle Terpstra of the same event, told from the subject's point of view.

Dating from the pre-digital and pre - «selfie» era of the 1970s to the early 2000s, each of these amateur images - collected by Collier over many years from flea markets, thrift - stores and online market places - has, at some point in the recent past, been discarded by their original owners.