Sentences with phrase «ornithologist from»

There are no recent records of scrub - jays occurring on other islands, but a fossil jay bone has been found on nearby Santa Rosas Island, and an ornithologist from the Smithsonian Institution who visited Santa Rosa Island in 1892 noted that the rancher there reported jays on the island.

Using a new technology, the researchers around the ornithologist from Frankfurt were able to describe previously unknown details of this small dinosaur's tail bristles.

«Even though in the past few years numerous feathered dinosaurs have been described from China, Psittacosaurs are only remotely related to the present - day birds,» explains the ornithologist from Frankfurt.

Now, however, the ornithologist from Frankfurt and his colleague, paleobotanist Dr. Volker Wilde, have found this evidence.

Mass Audubon's Hatheway School of Science and Education hosts ornithologists from the United Kingdom, Holland, and Germany to do behavioral studies and lecture on bird ecology at Drumlin Farm.

Not exact matches

Nesting pairs dropped from 363 in 1987 - 88 to 20 in 1998 - 99, according to BNHS ornithologist Vibhu Prakash.

The role of bull's - eye size in UV protection does not necessarily discount other environmental factors correlated with latitude; for example, ornithologists have argued that Gloger's rule arises because darker pigmentation comes from a compound that protects feathers from bacteria in the wet, humid tropics.

Barely had he touched shore when Darwin handed over the birds from the Galápagos to the renowned ornithologist John Gould.

In the latest issue of the journal Ibis, the team, with the addition of retired ornithologist John Ash, have named the bird the Nechisar nightjar, Caprimulgus solala — from solus (only) and ala (a wing).

How did you get from this epiphany to a becoming a semipro ornithologist?

The drama of those poses earned Audubon criticism from his contemporaries, who compared his «lurid» birds with those of the Scottish - American ornithologist Alexander Wilson.

Ornithologists think birds evolved these colors to attract mates, camouflage themselves from predators, and recognize fellow members of their species in the crowded sky.

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.

Ornithologists have long wondered why some birds carry more fat than they need to fuel their migration, and a new study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances provides the answer: Leftover fuel from spring migration gives female birds a reproductive boost when they reach their breeding grounds.

Every one of the over 250 New Zealand black robins that are alive today descends from a single female, nicknamed «Old Blue» after the colour of the tag she was given by ornithologists (see The robin's return).

My guides at this early hour of the morning, ornithologists Chris Filardi and Paul Sweet of the American Museum of Natural History, are frozen in reverence by the sight of what they assure me is a male American redstart, fanning its tail as it hops from branch to branch at the very top of a tree.

In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, ornithologist Dr. Miguel A. Gómez Garza came across parrots with a completely different colour pattern from other known species.

The new DNA from the test sequences have strengthened this conclusion, which came to a surprise to some ornithologists who had thought the mourning dove was the closest relative.

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Greenway drew inspiration from real life: the character of Jim was based in part on her grandfather, ornithologist J. Greenway Jr., whose articles are cited in the novel's endnotes.

In this 18th installment, clues from turkey vultures lead an English ornithologist to discover the ominous activity at a local airport in sleepy Colleton County, NC, where Knott is a judge.

From a young age, Meridian has a dream, a driving desire to become an ornithologist.

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.

Founded in 1951 by ornithologist Richard Pough (1904 - 2003), who had from 1936 to 1948 worked for the National Audubon Society, the Nature Conservancy has from inception sought to extirpate all «non-native» species, especially cats, from anywhere deemed wildlife habitat.

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BIOGRAPHIES: From Waldo ABBOTT, Santa Barbara ornithologist, to American herpetologist, Richard George ZWEIFEL, ISLAPEDIA includes over 1000 biographies of people whose lives intersected with California's Channel Islands.

The island scrub jay was first described by American ornithologist Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1886 [3] and an archaeological specimen at site SCRI - 192 dating from 1780's -1812 on Santa Cruz Island is the earliest evidence of the bird in the historic period.

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

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.

«We found that, for most species, counts obtained from recorders mounted on the UAV were very similar to those of a highly experienced field ornithologist.»

One section, for example, describes Stanford University ornithologist Terry Roots» climate change research, which uses citizen science data from Cornell and elsewhere to study shifts in bird migrations.

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