Sentences with phrase «ornithologist who»

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

I've done quite a bit of work in ornithology; I have never met an ornithologist who ever thought that ornithology was for the birds.»

«Whereas the avian annual cycle may be synchronized to segregate the major energy - demanding functions of molt, migration and reproduction, we recognize that events during any one phase of the annual cycle have repercussions across the entire annual cycle,» adds Frank Moore of the University of Southern Mississippi, the ornithologist who first outlined the two hypotheses.

«Habitat loss is still the main driver whose results we are seeing,» says Cagan Sekercioglu, a Stanford ornithologist who contributed data to the new report, «Climate change is building momentum... so it's going to have worse and worse impacts.»

An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Charles Hartshorne, a philosopher of religion who worked with the model I am proposing, was also an ornithologist.

An ornithologist at the University of Rhode Island who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

► Ornithologist Xin Lu, who has spent much of his research career conducting fieldwork on the Tibetan plateau, describes the emotional and spiritual rewards his work provides in this week's Science Careers - produced Working Life story.

When some doves jet away to avoid a predator, for instance, their bodies start to whistle, says Kimberly Bostwick, an ornithologist at Cornell University, who was not involved in this study.

One of the biggest surprises, says Marshall Iliff, an ornithologist at the Cornell lab who co-authored the report and leads a smaller, year - long project similar to GBBC called eBird, was an explosion in sightings of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus).

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.

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.

The total for window kills isn't the whole story, though, says ornithologist Daniel Klem Jr. of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., who did the earlier calculation: «The moral imperative of preventing even one unwanted and unintended death of these utilitarian and aesthetically pleasing creatures is, or should be, compelling enough.»

«It is really a fantastic but sobering study,» says Peter Marra, an ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the work.

Rubega, who is Burgio's Ph.D. advisor, is also Connecticut's State Ornithologist.

When an oil spill devastated the Gulf Coast's wildlife, budding ornithologist Bouler, 11, wrote to the National Audubon Society and volunteered her help: she would draw pictures for people who contributed to the cleanup campaign.

In 1965, he and Hilary divorced and he married novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard (who was formerly married to British ornithologist and conservationist Peter Scott, who was the only son of Robert Falcon «Scott of the Antarctic»).

THERE are hosts of people who have a genuine love of our native birds without yearning to possess their skins, or desiring to acquire the reputation of being «Ornithologists.»

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.

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.

The accommodation is open plan over two floors with the bedroom taking the entire first floor.An ideal destination for walkers, gardeners, ornithologists and sailors alike who want to make the most of the areas of natural beauty along the Helford and Fal Rivers and Roseland Peninsula, all located on the stunning South West Coast Path.

The accommodation is open plan over two floors with the bedroom taking the entire first floor.An ideal destination for walkers, gardeners, ornithologists and sailors alike who want to make the most of the areas of natural beauty along the Helford and...

An ideal destination for walkers, gardeners, ornithologists and sailors alike who want to make the most of the areas of natural beauty along the Helford and Fal Rivers and Roseland Peninsula, all located on the stunning South West Coast Path.

Of course you can just wander about and look at birds for free, but with Olingo you'll be accompanied by an Ornithologist guide who is an expert, so you'll get much more out of the trip.

The 117 lavishly illustrated pages also include essays by Key West hand, Mark Hedden, a writer, photographer and ornithologist, and Bruce Helander, an artist, curator, and academic who writes about art.

... 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.»

«These figures are just a small sample of the ongoing massacre», comments Duchamp, who cites this example: «Ubbo Mammen, an ornithologist commissioned by the German government, estimates that 200 - 300 Red Kites are being killed yearly by wind turbines in Germany» (3).

I have two brothers who are PhD scientists in related fields (one is actually an ornithologist / conservation biologist, researching the impact of Central American agriculture on endangered species).