Sentences with word «ornithology»

The Macaulay Sound Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, N.Y. holds the oldest and largest collection of animal sounds in the world.

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

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

He's a bird researcher at Sovon, the Dutch Center for Field Ornithology in Nijmegen.

Newman later turned his quip into a simple analogy «Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds.»

Arkansas Students Help Look for Oiled Birds The University of Central Arkansas» Biology Department's Ornithology class volunteered to search for oiled birds and other wildlife:

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.

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

«Evan's research shows alligators didn't evolve in a vacuum with no other crocodilians around,» said co-author David Steadman, ornithology curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.

Wilson described 26 new species in his nine volumes of American Ornithology.

Created from the artist's extensive engagement with the University of Washington's Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture's Ornithology collection, for Hamilton, the work is «an address to the infinitude and threatened extinctions we share across species — a lacrimosa, and elegy for a future being lost.»

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

And, as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology website explains, «Eastern Phoebes are common and their numbers are stable or increasing in most areas.»

Taryn Simon GAGOSIAN GALLERY The birth of modern ornithology, according to historian Daniel Lewis, was marked by notable developments in three areas: classification, language, and...

The program is equivalent to an undergraduate level ornithology course, with the addition of extensive field time and the opportunity for self - directed study.

David Larson is Director of Mass Audubon's Birder's Certificate Program, a college - level ornithology course, and teaches a bird ecology course for naturalist guides in Belize.

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

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Lately the Cornell Ornithology Laboratory has been working with artist Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C..

Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology researcher Eduardo Inigo - Elias, a veteran of efforts to work with Cuban researchers, talks about what improved relations between the U.S. and Cuba could mean for science and conservation.

«This is what I have been claiming for years», laments Mark, who has been banned from ornithology forums as an unwelcomed messenger of bad news.

«A study recently published in the Journal of Ornithology says such cats were the No. 1 killer «by a large margin» of baby gray catbirds in three Washington, D.C., suburbs.»

Continuing in the Audubon tradition of artistic ornithology, many of Connor's bird paintings seem filtered through a lens of the imagination, effectively transporting the birds from the world of the real to a magical realm of observation and flight.

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

To make sure Rubega's ornithology students can track one other's output (and to make sure she can assess their posts as part of their grade), she has adopted the hashtag #birdclass.

Skeptics will say, paraphrasing the painter Barnett Newman, «Neuroaesthetics are for artists what ornithology is for the birds.»

He knew ornithology well enough to see that it was larger than a common — and similarly colored — pileated woodpecker and that it had the markings of an ivorybill.

Dr. Gerald Mayr Senckenberg Research Institute and Nature Museum Frankfurt Section Ornithology Phone: 069 - 7542 1348 [email protected]

Moon most recently served on the faculty of the Putney School in Putney, VT., where he taught life sciences to 10th - 12th graders and developed ornithology as an academic course.

«We were all shocked by how widespread lead poisoning was for this population and just how clearly these elevated levels were associated with recreational hunting activity,» said Dr Arjun Amar, Associate Professor from the University of Cape Town's FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, who supervised the research.

I had no idea what real ornithology was.

Vladimir Dinets, research assistant professor of psychology, recently published a paper in the Journal of Field Ornithology examining the threats of global warming and its effects on wild animals.

That's the Cornell Lab of Ornithology online data base by which bird watchers anywhere on the planet can upload their sightings and help increase the resolution of our information on exactly what birds are hanging out where and when.

A modest effort to enlist amateur bird - watchers in the cause of ornithology wound up producing a fire hose of data and helping rewrite the rules of science

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.

The terrestrial nature of these creatures is a great indicator of how biodiversity has changed in the Bahamas and what the ideal circumstances would be for these or similar species to return, said Florida Museum ornithology curator and study co-author David Steadman.

Yale professor of ornithology Richard Prum, who has studied the feathers of Liaoning dinosaurs along with numerous aspects of avian behavior, thinks this is plausible.

The highlight of his undergraduate education was a 4 - month trip to Kenya, during which two professors taught ornithology, animal behavior, and human ecology to approximately 20 students.

All of this is undetectable to someone at the surface, but the underwater impact and disturbance from these activities can be devastating to ocean life, especially for species such as the North Atlantic right whale,» said Dr. Christopher Clark, Senior Scientist for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Bioacoustics Research Program.

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?

«We wanted to honor Professor Cheng Tso - hsin for his unparalleled contributions to Chinese ornithology,» Rasmussen said.

This work was supported by funds from the Ministry of Economy and Competitivity, Spanish Research Council (CGL2012 - 38262 and CGL2016 -79568-C3-3-P)(to J. C. S.), a research grant from the British Ornithology Union (to S. R.), and a FPI BES -2007-16320 grant to F. M. G. (Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology).

At the 2016 North American Ornithology Conference (NAOC) held this August in Washington D.C., Heath Hen de-extinction project leaders Ben Novak and Jeff Johnson organized and facilitated an important symposium: «Current and future prospects on avian de-extinction and genetic rescue».

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

(My husband is into ornithology and is very knowledgeable about British and European species but not so much elsewhere, so it was great fun to be able to tell him something «new» about a species of bird!

Emu - Austral Ornithology has been the flagship of BirdLife Australia for over a century.

He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children where he enjoys high school sports, competitive dance, golf, skiing, Jeopardy, jazz, and amateur ornithology.