Sentences with phrase «for ornithology»

Thetford, Norfolk, UK About Blog The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is one of the world's leading impartial scientific research organisations specialising in knowledge about birds.

Our new bird grows out of love for ornithology, design within creative constraints, and simple geometry.

«It was heartbreaking to see so many injured parrots struggling to stay alive,» says David Oehler, Curator for Ornithology with the Bronx Zoo.

On a field trip for his ornithology class, it was I who found the poisoned immature horned lark that was noted in Wallace's publication (about his investigation of manifold bird deaths on campus)-- a publication relied upon by Rachel Carson when she penned the book, Silent Spring.

In the video you can see how Couzin — with his colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology at the University of Konstanz, Germany — are using these novel techniques and technologies to help unravel some of the mysteries; with bonus points for majestic footage of animals acting as one.

Birds» ability to adjust their spring egg - laying times as temperatures rise could help them beat global warming, according to experts from Edinburgh University and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

Around 130 other bird species call Lord Howe Island home, making this a hot spot for ornithology.

Thetford, Norfolk, UK About Blog The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is one of the world's leading impartial scientific research organisations specialising in knowledge about birds.

About Site - Comprehensive up - to - date coverage for ornithology, aggregated from news sources all over the world by Google News.

We thank the staff of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology for providing the experimental equipment and for maintaining the birds.

Affiliation Department of Migration and Immuno - Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell, Germany

«We don't know why for sure why this happens,» Javier Lázaro, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, told Newsweek.

Funded in part by: The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, The Illinois Arts Council Agency, The Rotman Family Charitable Gift Fund

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.

People living in neighbourhoods with more birds, shrubs and trees are less likely to suffer from depression, anxiety and stress, according to research by academics at the University of Exeter, the British Trust for Ornithology and the University of Queensland.

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.

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.

Isn't something wrong when, as the British Trust for Ornithology reports, thousands of robins become confused and start singing in the middle of the night, serenading the security lights of suburbia?

Generating power from the tides in estuaries could threaten the population of wading birds, according to the British Trust for Ornithology.

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.

The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the breeding populations of three species of large gull; Herring Gull, Great Black - backed Gull and Lesser Black - backed Gull on the Hebridean island of Canna, and the relationship between these gull populations and the fall in the quantity of fish landed in the nearby harbour of Mallaig.

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.

In an experiment published in 2014, researchers from Germany's Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Lund University in Sweden observed a group of ravens interacting with a small stuffed mouse and a plastic spider.

The recent work is led by PhD student Philippa Gullett and Dr Karl Evans from Sheffield, in collaboration with Rob Robinson from the British Trust for Ornithology.

Honnavalli Kumara at the Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History in Coimbatore, India, and colleagues followed 20 Nicobar long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis umbrosus) on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean.

«If we can determine the reasons for variations in sleep patterns, we will gain insight into the function of sleep in mammals, including humans,» said study co-author, Niels Rattenborg, head of the Sleep and Flight Group at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

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

Researchers included: Michaela Hau, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, University of Konstanz; Sjouke Kingma, University of East Anglia, University of Groningen; Bart Kranstauber, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology; Kim Mortega and Martin Wikelski, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, University of Konstanz; Kees van Oers and Christa Mateman, Netherlands Institute for Ecology; Glen Ferguson, National Bioenergy Center; and Giulia Beltrami, Università di Ferrara.

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.»

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Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

This is what a team from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and the University of Lausanne found out working with barn owls in the wild.

What's most surprising is not that the birds could sleep while flying, but how little they did: an average of 42 minutes a day in flight, compared with 12 hours a day on land, according to neuroscientist Niels Rattenborg of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

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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.»

Co-authors of the paper are from Emory University, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Palacky University.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.