(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).
Scientific
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.
(a.) Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific arrangement of fossils.
(a.) Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) Such a science puts men in a couple of scientific laws and suppresses the moment of active doing (accepting or refusing) as a sufficient preassumption of reality.
(3) Only an extensive knowledge of the various mechanisms and pharmacologic agents that can be used to prevent or treat these adverse reactions will allow the physician to approach the problem scientifically and come to a reasonable solution for the patient.
(4) Read more After Monday’s launch at 7.30am (11.30pm GMT), the taikonauts will dock with the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, where they will spend about a month, testing systems and processes for space stays and refuelling, and doing scientific experiments.
(5) potential impact on clinical or scientific concepts) and the current productivity (e.g.
(6) Such lack of attention to matters of scientific methodology does not bode well for the advancement of knowledge in this area.
(7) Retrograde extrapolation is applicable in the forensic setting with scientific reliability when reasonable and justifiable assumptions are utilized.
(8) Armed with this knowledge, the practitioner treating a breakdown injury can work to a solution based on scientific understanding rather than anecdotal information.
(9) As a limited amount of in vivo testing is still required, attempts should be made to improve the method by attention to the scientific principles involved, using current knowledge of inflammatory mechanisms.
(10) In this review, many of the recent scientific advances that have been made in the immunological aspects of the pathogenesis of fungal infections are presented.
(11) We have studied this chapter of our history by analyzing primary documents and articles published at the daily press, political press, and scientific journals of Madrid during 1847 to 1848.
(12) He is, by any measure, one of the biggest scientific frauds of all time.
(13) The revelations did not alter the huge body of evidence from a variety of scientific fields that supports the conclusion that modern climate change is caused largely by human activity, Ward said.
(14) But they should also serve for the understanding of those inflammatory vascular diseases whose special position is based on the new scientific knowledge of immunopathology.
(15) "Decoding the tsetse fly's DNA is a major scientific breakthrough.
(16) When he was prime minister Tony Blair asked Peter Mandelson to tell the Prince of Wales to stop his "unhelpful" attempts to influence policy on GM and Mandelson accused him of being "anti-scientific and irresponsible".
(17) This modern view of man and his world discards the traditional mechanistic paradigm which has been the focus of Western scientific thought and medicine.
(18) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(19) It has arisen from semantic errors, and a belief in ischaemia for which there is no scientific evidence.
(20) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.