Sentences with word «ornithologist»

This project is a partnership with Mass Audubon and Dr. Andrew Vitz, the Massachusetts State Ornithologist at Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

Led by ornithologist Richard Prum at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, a group of mathematicians and ecologists set out to explain a growing number of anomalies raised by Rayleigh's theory.

He served as state ornithologist from 1908 until his death in 1929.

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.

«I was stunned,» said ornithologist Peter Marra of the Smithsonian's Conservation Biology Institute.

This data was compared to the findings of a field ornithologist who listened for calls from the ground.

The journal began in 1899 as the journal of the Cooper Ornithological Club, a group of ornithologists in California that became the Cooper Ornithological Society.

The Un-Cruise Adventures fleet offers seven - day birding cruises in the Sea of Cortés with ornithologist guides for $ 3,900 and a craft beer voyage that takes guests to micro-brewing ground zero in Washington State's San Juan Islands, with prices starting from $ 2,350.

Day 8 Take a boat ride on Lake Skadar, a paradise for ornithologists, one of Europe's largest bird sanctuaries with more than 270 species.

The 1916 tract The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser & Destroyer of Wild Life; Means of Utilizing and Controlling It, authored by then - Massachusetts state ornithologist Edward Howe Forbush, in original form furnished the quasi-scientific basis for more than half a century of concerted efforts by hunters and birders to add cats to state lists of legally hunted species.

With its unusually diverse habitats, the Lamanai area is a must for professional ornithologists or casual bird watchers.

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds, including the coordination of Mass Audubon's Foresters for the Birds program.

While the rest of his species went to Mexico for the winter this tough bird flew East to startle jays and ornithologists in Ossining, N.Y.

Painted during the 1990s in tandem with the book's re-release, Rivers» bird series is a unique reinterpretation of master ornithologist John James Audubon's influential illustrations of bird and plant life in America.

Starting as an intern marine ornithologist working on the Farallon Islands in 1981, Bill spent 15 years as the Director of Marine Ecology at PRBO Conservation Science before establishing the Farallon Institute.

Or maybe his stated job as a Right - wing (chuckle, pardon the Pun) Ornithologist doesn't pay the bills (oops another Pun!)

But Folly and Landscape (which also includes a lecture by the artist with his father, renowned ornithologist Peter Holden, about nestmaking) ultimately presents too many avenues that don't quite come together.

Cherry's time at Cornell also inspired work on another book about the ivory - billed woodpecker, which Cornell ornithologists and others reported rediscovering in 2004.

The artist as ornithologist?

The new finding «shows for the first time that that even giant theropods could be plumaged, and likely fully plumaged,» says Richard Prum, an evolutionary ornithologist at Yale University.

Mark Dion, Society of Amateur Ornithologists, 2010.

Ornithologists want the Colombian government to designate 494,000 acres of land in the area as a natural reserve; to add to their mounting concern, the bird has only been spied on one mountain ridge, which makes it exceptionally rare even by rare - bird standards.

One of the more intriguing fossil finds there of late is that of a giant penguin discovered by ornithologist Dr. Gerald Mayr from the Senckenberg Society for Natural Research and a team of colleagues from New Zealand.

CBC.ca reports of how ornithologist Jamie Dunning stumbled upon the discovery: Dunning normally works with twites, another type of bird, but he had been wondering if...

Cornell University ornithologist Dr. Kevin McGowen says that blackbirds are no more adept to seeing in the dark as humans, putting them at risk of midair collisions when startled from their roosts at night, as was considered the likely cause of death of both bird die - offs in Beebe.

... 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.»

Supercomputer time will help ornithologists make ecological sense of millions of records of bird sightings.

Help ornithologists make historical bird migration records available to the public via the Web

He and other ornithologists agree that the uncorrected sun compass strategy works best near the poles, and that additional cues are probably involved at lower latitudes.

The common raven is one of the most familiar and recognizable species throughout the Northern Hemisphere — or so ornithologists thought.

Jameson works for the UK's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and although he knows ornithologists who are acquainted with all the places goshawks are likely to inhabit, he rarely gets more than the odd glimpse.

In 1930 a New York City ornithologist wrote that in the state of Alaska in the last 12 years approximately 70,000 Bald Eagles had been shot.

The debate continues among ornithologists.

He wouldn't give me his age or say what he does for a living, short of a not serious 22 yr old philanthropist answer, so I will go ahead and vote for 24 yr old Ornithologist.

Acoustic cameras recorded these repeated stunts and revealed that, as the male whooshes down, he twists half of his tail sideways, says ornithologist Christopher J. Clark of the University of California, Riverside.

«We talked to many experienced ornithologists, but none of them had observed slug predatory behaviour towards birds before.»

Mirsky: That's ornithologist Eduardo Inigo - Elias.

So ornithologist Thomas Alerstam of Lund University in Sweden and colleagues used the radar on a Canadian icebreaker in the Northwest Passage to measure the direction of migrating birds flying past.

What you first need for successful crowd - funding is a clearly defined project, says ornithologist Thomas Hart of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

The textbooks are wrong, says ornithologist Robert Zink of the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History.

The four plant species in this new subgenus are found in Central America and the Caribbean Islands, where U.S. ornithologist James Bond did his most famous work.

Israeli ornithologist Yossi Leshem says the incident is the third such arrest (so to speak) of a bird tracked by Israeli scientists in 3 decades.

Through careful analysis of Darwin's notes and journals, Sulloway dates Darwin's acceptance of the fact of evolution to the second week of March 1837, after a meeting Darwin had with the eminent English ornithologist John Gould, who had been studying his Galpagos bird specimens.

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Now Steve Emslie, a marine ornithologist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, has developed an ingenious method of tracking climate change in the Antarctic: He has excavated and carbon - dated 45,000 years» worth of Adélie penguin poop, skin, bones, feathers, and eggshells from colonies preserved in Antarctica's frigid climate.