Sentences with phrase «said 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.

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...

«The controversy over what to do next is just beginning,» says ornithologist Przemek Chylarecki of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

The paper «provides the first clear indication of where conservationists should focus,» says ornithologist Jon Fjeldså of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, whose bird data were used in the research.

And the poisoning of vultures in Asia that threatened to wipe out the three scavenging bird species of the Indian subcontinent has been checked through a combination of replacement drugs in livestock and captive breeding efforts, says ornithologist Nancy Clum of WCS.

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

So researchers have used genetic studies to suggest that «a few lineages survived extinction and had a really fast radiation right afterwards,» says Daniel Ksepka, a paleo - ornithologist at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the lead author on the paper.

In other words, as lead author and L.S.U. ornithologist Phillip Stouffer says quote «developing second growth forest around fragments encourages recolonization.»

«This is like [George] Orwell's Ministry of Truth,» says Tomasz Wesołowski, an ornithologist at Wrocław University in Poland.

«The jacana is the ultimate in female liberation,» says Cornell University ornithologist Stephen Emlen.

The finding counters the common assumption that males only help rear their young if they're sure of paternity, says Michael Webster, an ornithologist at the University of Buffalo in New York.

«Previously, most people would have said that nests are too plastic to provide evidence of evolutionary relationships,» says Robert Zink, an ornithologist at the Bell Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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.

Her pregnancy, in its fifth month, is the reason for her departure; this remote research base «is not a place for families or babies,» the ornithologist says.

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).

A priority, says David Melville, an ornithologist in New Zealand, should be determining if surviving birds are carrying a weakened strain of the virus, or if some species or individual birds are carrying the same variant with minimal health effects.

But the new study, which includes anatomical data extinct species preserved in the fossil record, narrows that window considerably, says Joel Cracraft, an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Now, says Prum, ornithologists can study female preference «all the way down to the nanometer scale.»

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.

Yi qi is «a bizarre creature», says Richard Prum, an ornithologist at Yale University.

«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.

Kimberly Bostwick, an evolutionary ornithologist at Cornell University, says that about half of all pigeon and related dove species have a similarly modified feather:» [These wing whistles] are probably widespread across doves as an alarm call.»

Gerald Mayr, an ornithologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankurt, Germany, says that the finding that this early penguin lacked the melanosome arrangement of its modern relatives is «certainly a very interesting discovery.»

«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.»

«Here we have a professional long - term ornithologist and a professional long - term microbiologist putting our major backgrounds together to make a major discovery,» Rogers says.

They saw ivory gulls flying overhead, the first time ornithologists said they had ever been sighted at the pole.

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said Saturday the birds showed physical trauma, and speculated that «the flock could have been hit by lightning or high - altitude hail.»