Sentences with phrase «on ornithology»

Wealthy almost beyond measure, he studied and wrote on ornithology and was an avid philatelist, having paid a record (at the...

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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.

A study by the British Trust for Ornithology (1995) compared breeding and over-wintering of birds on 44 organic and conventional farms.

Also at 6 p.m., Assemblywoman Deborah Glick holds a panel on climate change, sustainability and development, featuring Judith Enck, former EPA official; Andrew Farnsworth of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; and Mike Aziz, Urban Design Planner at Perkins + Will, Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, University Center, 63 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

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

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.

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

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.

The feather friends at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology contend on their Web site that «a study in 2003 found few actual effects on populations of 27 native species.

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.

After looking through the ornithology literature, Therrien says, the team concluded that the spacing of the dark marks looked very much like the distribution of the large, shafted feathers on the wings of an ostrich.

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.

More to explore All about Birds, from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bird Feet, from Fernbank Science Center Field Guides: Birds, from eNature.com Can You Predict a Bird's Lifestyle Based on Its Feet?

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.

The study, published in the «ournal of Ornithology, evaluates the effect of outdoor lighting of city roads, cars, streets and sports facilities on three species of petrels which breed on the Balearic archipelago and are under threat: the Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus), Scopoli's shearwater (Calonectris diomedea) and the European storm - petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus).

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.

Wichita State University microbiology professor Mark Schneegurt and ornithology professor Chris Rogers have discovered that one of North America's most common migratory birds — the Dark - eyed Junco — carries on its feathers a remarkable diversity of plant bacteria, the greatest ever found on wild birds.

The maps were based on data from eBird, a joint venture of Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, and BirdLife, an international network of conservation groups.

«I remember saying to a student, «I don't know what this bird does, but it does something different from any other corvid on Earth because its bill is so weird,»» said McGowan, project manager for distance learning in bird biology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

It has info on research projects that you can take part in, from ornithology to entomology to astronomy.

On Thursday, September 21, 2017, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology postdocs are being treated to a fun evening out!

But, think of it this way: you can always tuck these deal breakers away as fodder for the amusing stories that will inevitably be told after your current date wonders, «I have to ask you, why on earth did you write please do not respond if you have any interest in ornithology, whatsoever!»

Fellow intern Michelle Kern is a first - year City College of San Francisco student who speaks with an easy confidence about having helped the museum's Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy unpack many of its specimens that had been moved from the temporary location on Howard Street to the new facility in Golden Gate Park.

Rick Bonney, director of program development and evaluation at Cornell's Lab of Ornithology, anticipates a lot of student involvement and says, «We hope to get kids who are already living on the Internet to look at images and collect data.»

Join us with Plum Landing, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Science Action Club for a conversation on tools, curriculum, and resources on environmental education in afterschool.

Goa is well known on the world ornithology circuit as it has more than 400 bird species.

Fluid Concept Surf School have one of the most experienced surf instructors in the UK — a dedicated surfer for over 30 years, honestly, just test his knowledge... he's a great surfer and he knows a thing or two about identifying flowers, aquatic life and ornithology... although a bit of a menace on a paddleboard!

In other words, he agrees with Barnett Newman's famous observation, «Aesthetics is for painting as ornithology is for the birds»: It's up to critics and art historians to work out what's going on.

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Around 1940, he abandoned painting to concentrate on studying ornithology and art history.

«There were no openings in the music program at the university in Cologne,» wrote Nick Paumgarten in The New Yorker, «so [Zwirner] sent an audition tape to New York University of him playing the melody of Charlie Parker's «Ornithology» on the drums.»

Well, a sad reminder that most of the people on the planet are still grinding away at life (from today's NPR interview with people from the Cornell Ornithology lab):

«What we see today is just a small snapshot of how species have existed for millions of years,» says lead author Dave Steadman, ornithology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus.

On 12 January 2012, at the First Scientific Congress on Wind Energy and Wildlife Conservation in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO / Birdlife) made public its estimate that, yearly, Spain's 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 to 18 million birds and bats (1On 12 January 2012, at the First Scientific Congress on Wind Energy and Wildlife Conservation in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO / Birdlife) made public its estimate that, yearly, Spain's 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 to 18 million birds and bats (1on Wind Energy and Wildlife Conservation in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, the Spanish Society of Ornithology (SEO / Birdlife) made public its estimate that, yearly, Spain's 18,000 wind turbines may be killing 6 to 18 million birds and bats (1).

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 SprinOn 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 Sprinon campus)-- a publication relied upon by Rachel Carson when she penned the book, Silent Spring.

In a breakthrough for bird watchers and the avian - curious everywhere, the Visipedia research project and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have collaborated on a nifty website that has a keen skill: it can identify hundreds of bird species by photo alone.

A new paper published in Marine Ornithology describes how these invertebrates also dine on the occasional sea bird.