Sentence examples for ornithologists from inspiring English sources

The small polygamous male and larger female behave so differently that early ornithologists considered them separate species; Murphy found that a male might fly 2,000 miles while his sister moved three miles in her entire life.

Kayak puffin patrols at Herm run April-June, £35pp, or boat trips cost £29.50 Ornithologists are reluctant to reveal where, precisely, breeding hen harriers can be spotted: this marvellous bird's existence is threatened constantly by egg collectors and misguided gamekeepers.

Iraqi ornithologists have begun surveying the birds of the country's southern marshes, which stretched for 20,000 square km (7,722 square miles) until they were drained and destroyed by Saddam Hussein's government.

Intercourse happens when these two openings are brought together in what ornithologists refer to as a cloacal kiss.

Mr Souder also makes some intriguing points about transatlantic tensions among naturalists.Although Audubon came to owe his career to the English, he had earlier dismissed European birders as "cabinet ornithologists".

But cataracts unrelated to age are surprisingly common in birds living near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.This is revealed in a new study by a pair of ornithologists, Timothy Mousseau of the University of South Carolina and Anders Moller of the University of Paris-Sud, which is published in the Public Library of Science.

EARLY ornithologists, puzzled by the disappearance each winter of the local swallow population, suspected that the birds buried themselves in mud and hibernated.

The third-most-common, the greater horned owl, though nocturnal, pounces from the air with such force that it would easily penetrate any crust, and thus come to a sad and sticky end entombed for millennia until the palaeo-ornithologists of the 21st century disinterred it.Correction: This article originally neglected to make clear that the cats under discussion were big cats.

For the first volume she was awarded the Brewster Medal from the American Ornithologists Unionn in 1942.

Peterson was an officer of many ornithological and conservation organizations, including the American Ornithologists' Union, National Audubon Society, and International Committee for Bird Preservation.

He was memorable in a supporting role as a Nazi war criminal in Judgment at Nuremburg (1961), and received another Oscar nomination for his sensitive portrayal of Robert Stroud a prison inmate who became one of the world's leading ornithologists in director John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1962).