Contributions to the History of North American Ornithology
Author : William E. Davis (Jr.)
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
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Author : William E. Davis (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Nature
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Author : Dan Lewis Fischer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2001-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816521494
"Dan Fischer identifies those individuals who documented the natural history of the Southwest and summarizes their contributions to our knowledge about the region's birds - particularly through discovering and naming them. He tells why the ornithologists came to the region, what they saw, who described and named the new discoveries, and who were the first to sketch or paint new birds."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : David W. Johnston
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813922423
Host to a large and diverse bird population as well as a long human history, Virginia is arguably the birthplace of ornithology in North America. David W. Johnston's History of Ornithology in Virginia, the result of over a decade of research, is the first book to address this fascinating element of the state's natural history. Tertiary-era fossils show that birds inhabited Virginia as early as 65 million years ago. Their first human observers were the region's many Indian tribes and, later, colonists on Roanoke Island and in Jamestown. Explorers pushing westward contributed further to the development of a conception of birds that was distinctively American. By the 1900s planter-farmers, naturalists, and government employees had amassed bird records from the Barrier Islands and the Dismal Swamp to the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains. The modern era saw the emergence of ornithological organizations and game laws, as well as increasingly advanced studies of bird distribution, migration pathways, and breeding biology. Johnston shows us how ornithology in Virginia evolved from observations of wondrous creatures to a sophisticated science recognizing some 435 avian species. David W. Johnston taught ornithology at the University of Virginia's Mountain Lake Biological Station for nearly two decades and has edited numerous ecological studies as well as the Journal of Field Ornithology and Ornithological Monographs.
Author : Alexander Wilson
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Page : 495 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : William E. Davis (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 19,42 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
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Author : Joe Truesdell Marshall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
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Author : Edward H. Burtt Jr.
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674073738
On the bicentennial of his death, this beautifully illustrated volume pays tribute to the Scot who became the father of American ornithology. Alexander Wilson made unique contributions to ecology and animal behavior. His drawings of birds in realistic poses in their natural habitat inspired Audubon, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and other naturalists.
Author : Edgar Leopold Layard
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Page : 942 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1400848830
Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy, taxonomy, and classification of dead birds. It describes how in the early 1900s pioneering individuals such as Erwin Stresemann, Ernst Mayr, and Julian Huxley recognized the importance of studying live birds in the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of the biological sciences. The book tells the stories of eccentrics like Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a pathological liar who stole specimens from museums and quite likely murdered his wife, and describes the breathtaking insights and discoveries of ambitious and influential figures such as David Lack, Niko Tinbergen, Robert MacArthur, and others who through their studies of birds transformed entire fields of biology. Ten Thousand Birds brings this history vividly to life through the work and achievements of those who advanced the field. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews, this fascinating book reveals how research on birds has contributed more to our understanding of animal biology than the study of just about any other group of organisms.