(n.) One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) He began his career as an ornithologist, working with Birdlife International and from 1990 he worked at Friends of the Earth and was the organisation’s executive director from 2003-2008 and vice chair of Friends of the Earth International from 2000-2008.
(2) Would it matter to the world beyond, other than to birds and ornithologists too, if Hoo became a giant airport and dock, clustered with warehouses, freight yards and car parks?
(3) "It's that hungry gap we're most concerned about: something that would fill that gap would be great as far as the birds would be concerned," said Paul Stancliffe, a BTO ornithologist.
(4) Contemporary opinion among ornithologists is that the sense of smell is weak at best in passerines, and particularly so in corvids which lack developed olfactory apparatus.
(5) Parker, a keen ornithologist, succeeded Sir Jonathan Evans earlier this year and has been at the agency for 30 years.
(6) I am an ornithologist and for me the most memorable story from Scott's expedition is that of Edward Wilson's mid-winter trek to the emperor penguin breeding colony at Cape Crozier.
(7) The book was the translated diaries of an obscure 19th-century German ornithologist called Bernhard Adolph Hantzsch who, after being shipwrecked, died trying to trek across the far north of Canada to find a ship home.
(8) An ornithologist named RB Martin first recorded the chase when, during the second world war, he spent a year following a single skylark in the fields of Middlesex.
(9) In our own time, it also has continued to occupy the attention of at least a small number of ornithologists and field biologists whose work, like that of their predecessors, is not cited in the current neuropsychological literature on this topic.
(10) 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.
(11) After attending the University of Miami, du Pont became a noted shell-collector and ornithologist, writing several books on the subject and naming some two dozen species of exotic birds.
(12) Ever since, ornithologists have been at pains to point out that the chances of hearing a nightingale in central London are virtually non-existent, and that the bird was far more likely to have been that persistent nocturnal songster, the robin .
Ornithology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of zoology which treats of the natural history of birds and their classification.
(n.) A treatise or book on this science.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later, while spending weekends practicing falconry at Blow’s country estate, McQueen relished the contrast with his early foray into ornithology.
(2) The British Trust for Ornithology said recent research had shown a "hungry gap" when farmland birds were finding it hard to find seed in the two months after farmers began to plough their fields in mid February.
(3) In addition to a number of oecological and ornithological considerations, reference was also made to systematic facts and routes along which further investigations on the presence of influenza viruses in the world of birds could be taken up, particular attention being paid to migratory birds.
(4) The report drew heavily on the British Trust for Ornithology's mammoth volunteer-led project the Bird Atlas 2007-11 , published a month earlier.
(5) Malick's obsession with ornithology is well known to admirers of his films, which often include lyrical passages that cut away from the central dramatic action to focus on swaying grasses and wildlife.
(6) Mário Rego (+351 966 302 853) is a lovely guide and specialises in Terceira’s rich ornithology and geology.
(7) The presence of hemagglutination-inhibiting antibodies to tick-borne encephalitis virus was investigated in serum samples from domestic animals (217 from swine, 214 from cattle, 179 from goats and 161 from sheep) and birds (214 from geese and 171 from ducks), as well as from 511 apparently healthy subjects of a biotope with particular ornithological and entomological characteristics.
(8) Thus an extraordinary chapter in the history of radio broadcasting – and ornithology – finally reached its end.
(9) Later still, he joined the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and drifted through a year at university studying, he says, 'Italian, ornithology and writing.'
(10) While one of his brothers manages the American Express office in town and another trades in Switzerland, Mohamed has stayed close to the Nile and developed a passion for ornithology.
(11) The song Feed the Birds has nothing to do with ornithology: it's about how it doesn't take much to give love.
(12) According to the British Trust for Ornithology , if current population trends continue, it is highly likely that some of these birds will not just decline in numbers, but may disappear from Britain altogether.
(13) Ornithology aside, Arnold was ever the stoker of embers, saying that Barbarouses should have been sent off for a first-half challenge.
(14) Lyster and Chris were fitted with the satellite tags last May by scientists from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).