How To Use Ornithologist In A Sentence

  • The other two species are birds discovered by the Danish ornithologists: the rufous-winged sunbird discovered in 1981, and the Udzungwa forest partridge, a new genus discovered in 1991.
  • Ornithologists will know that the strangely-named Indian Tree Pie takes its name from a colourful Indian member of the crow family (Dendrocitta vagabunda).
  • People were pretty shell-shocked, " said Karen Rowe, a senior ornithologist with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. "It was very disturbing.
  • Some flocks were imprinted on the filmmaker/ornithologists, thereby enabling the latter to fly ultralight planes alongside the birds.
  • Ornithologists say they are increasingly concerned about the "alarming" decline of some of Britain's woodland birds species.
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  • UK ornithologists are able to keep track of these aged avians because the birds are banded, or in British vernacular, ringed.
  • He's been so thoroughly domesticated by his loving owner, Linda Leslie Mann that he studies aerodynamics in his cage, yet continues to walk around their cozy home in Minnesota until a Brazilian ornithologist named Tulio comes out of nowhere and proposes mating him with the street-smart, high-flying Jewel in Rio to save the macaw species. Animated 'Rio': A Witty Carnival of Brazil Nuts
  • Standing knee-high to a human and weighing about two pounds, kagus have long fascinated ornithologists.
  • With long hours at the museum and regular forays into the countryside, he eventually established a reputation as one of America's premier ornithologists.
  • Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
  • I was learning the most important attribute of any budding ornithologist - patience.
  • Glad tidings await professional ornithologists, amateur bird watchers and naturalists.
  • Mention the phrase to a biogeographer or a population biologist or a theoretical ecologist or an ornithologist who has worked in New Guinea or Indonesia or the Antilles, and your meaning is clear. The Song of The Dodo
  • Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Giant hoatzins of doom
  • As well as grouse watching, Dan and his colleagues also give informal tours around the reserve for young ornithologists keen to spot merlins, buzzards and ospreys.
  • That name comes from the Latin "buteo," still retained by the ornithologists; but, in its original form, valueless, to you. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
  • Ornithologists suggested it was more likely to be a bedraggled guillemot. Times, Sunday Times
  • The accolades bestowed on Coues in that memorial reflect his stature as one of the greatest ornithologists of his time, and maybe of all time.
  • He named his dashing spy after an unassuming U.S. ornithologist who wrote "Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming Airport, Jamaica's Third, Jamaica opens new airport named for Ian Fleming
  • Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed physical trauma, and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail.
  • Ornithologists have long sought to explain pneumatic bones in birds as an adaptation to some aspect of their lifestyle, such as the great benefit they offer for energy savings in flying.
  • Best line: Whicher once captured a swindler “who had conned a London saddler out of a gun case, an artist out of two enamel paintings, and an ornithologist out of 18 humming bird skins.” 2008 September « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • Likewise, ornithologists studying neotropical migrant populations historically have focused much of their attention in the temperate zones.
  • Ornithologists and naturalists, including the renowned nineteenth-century illustrator John Gould, originally classified male and female huias as two different species.
  • It is also an ornithologists' paradise and is host to over 400 species of birds.
  • The first feather should basically be an unbranched tube," says evolutionary ornithologist Richard Prum at Yale University, among those who proposed the theory. An Ancient Quill Rewrites Dinosaur History
  • I was learning the most important attribute of any budding ornithologist - patience.
  • The whole valley round St Nectan's Glen is teeming with bird life, a paradise for a young ornithologist.
  • As our group moved on down the street, Dr Dave Mehlman, ornithologist, asked me, “Did you get a picture?” Mjh's blog — 2009 — December
  • His own father had been an avid ornithologist, so his aunt had told him.
  • In this case, an experienced ornithologist has bravely examined parasitology and has looked at empirical data, views, and ideas in a manner that is both similar to and different from that of parasitologists.
  • Ornithologists who study songbirds call the young birds’ early babblings “subsong.” Birdology
  • New material mostly fixed in ethanol is obtained from acarologists, parasitologists and ornithologists for the examination and also from specialists on these taxa on an exchange basis or as a gift.
  • The little seabird nests high in coastal forests, a fact that had eluded ornithologists until several years ago, when a bird with webbed feet flopped out of a felled tree.
  • An old name for them is bearded reedling, and some ornithologists are using it again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Because of the broad range of his interests, John was always alert to the ways in which concepts and data from other fields might be useful to ornithologists and ethologists.
  • Ornithologist John Terres suggests that corvids (including crows) have probably achieved the highest degree of intelligence to be found in any birds.
  • Soon a few amateur ornithologists from the civil services visited the islands and collected specimens.
  • Thus an ornithologist might describe a colleague as having an aquiline nose, but would not use the word aquiline in reference to a bird of the eagle group. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3
  • Ornithologist, that "The jay is one of the most useful agents in the economy of nature, for disseminating forest trees and other nuciferous and hard-seeded vegetables on which they feed. Excursions
  • Although ornithologists have amassed vast recorded archives of glides, twitters, and warbles, little is known of the origin and function of avian musicianship.
  • Ornithologists on an expedition to the Calayan Island in the Babuyan Islands in the Philippines have discovered a rare near-flightless rail, related to New Zealand's weka.
  • According to many ornithologists it is the most widespread land bird on the planet, found on every continent except Antarctica.
  • There is a sheep-like tendency among ornithologists to play follow-the-leader with regard to the terminology in this field, and I am as guilty as anyone.
  • Our friend and guide, Anup, an ornithologist, doing research in the valley, said that two weeks ago he had sighted a tiger stalking a tahr.
  • Matt Murphy, ornithologist for the Countryside Council for Wales said climate change was affecting the breeding patterns of pied flycatchers living in Welsh oak woodlands.
  • Ornithologists describe them as endemic, birds that have evolved into distinctive species because of the insularity of their habitats.
  • A little ornithologist told me it might be a birthday of a certain podcaster we all know and love. How the World Was Saved | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
  • Always a passionate ornithologist, Messiaen would ask Pasquier, his commanding officer, to assign him the early watch so that he could observe the awakening of the birds. A POW's Awe-Inspiring Act of Faith
  • Brian, a keen ornithologist, also informed me that there's a breeding pair of herons right there in the harbour.
  • He was a keen ornithologist, a passion which helped him cope with his ferocious workload.
  • Ornithologists and naturalists, including the renowned nineteenth-century illustrator John Gould, originally classified male and female huias as two different species.
  • An ornithologist, he lived 'til he was 97, and so I got to see the way he would collect and classify and write systematically about his bird collection. Windows on Latin America: Colonial to Contemporary
  • He starts his remarks by hoping: ‘A more progressive generation of ornithologists will no doubt possess itself of higher standards for estimating the value of sub-species.’
  • Only after the ornithologists began banding birds on a large scale did their migration patterns begin to come into focus.
  • An amateur ornithologist claims he saw a South Island kokako from about 20 meters. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Big-city noise levels prompt birds to sing louder in order to be heard by other birds over the din, according to research by German ornithologists.
  • The sanctuary currently hosts budding ornithologists from Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Germany, and Russia.
  • These paradigms will be of as much interest to philologists and ethnolinguists as they may be to ornithologists.
  • It is an ornithologist's dream come true with an abundance of parrots, rosellas, honeysuckers, finches and nightbirds.
  • Ornithologists tell us that habitat loss is the chief reason for this decline.
  • But ornithologists believe these theories are far-fetched.
  • Osgood (1875-1947) gained his reputation as an ornithologist and specialized during the 1890s in oology, but in 1897 he joined the then US Bureau of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy (later to become the US Biological Survey) and embarked on significant collecting trips to California and Alaska. Archive 2006-03-01
  • A learned ornithologist later gave the Latin name Athene noctua lilith to the Middle Eastern desert race of the Little Owl (pictured in Voous's book on p. 183). The Company of Owls
  • Meanwhile ornithologists and environmentalists are examining captive breeding.
  • To the distinguished ornithologist and broadcaster James Fisher, the fulmar was the nearest thing we had to an albatross in the North Atlantic. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
  • Ornithologists also know something about how birdsong is produced.
  • Its objectives are the advancement of ornithology and the promotion of the scientific study of birds among ornithologists in Europe.
  • The coloration of feathers elicits curiosity in the ornithologist and admiration in the birder.
  • Ornithologists say there's no good way to estimate the worldwide bird population.
  • Based predominantly on the morphology of the carpometacarpus, some ornithologists have proposed that cariamaens are closely related to the Hoatzin* Opisthocomus hoazin**, that bizarre folivorous, arboreal bird that (uniquely among birds) practices foregut fermentation. Archive 2006-11-01
  • Venetian is no respecter of species; and when an Italian "ornithologist Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
  • UK ornithologists are able to keep track of these aged avians because the birds are banded, or in British vernacular, ringed.
  • Preliminary necropsies on the dead birds by the state Livestock and Poultry Commission "showed trauma," said Karen Rowe, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission ornithologist. Trauma cited in mysterious Ark. bird kill
  • Ornithologists estimate that anywhere from 1 to 4 million birds visit the basin on their way to or from their summer breeding and nesting grounds.
  • As an ornithologist, I would be the very last person to begrudge money for the condor; I would merely like to see money for human languages as well.
  • Nor would I claim to be an "ornithologist", a title which implies scientific knowledge, a capacity for protracted study, an understanding of graphs, figures and statistics, and possibly a doctorate. The Guardian World News
  • I was going to help my cousin, an ornithologist working for the Saudi government, to catch and ring birds.
  • In 1996 ornithologists announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical ovenbird, the pink-legged graveteiro, within the rustic cacao farms of the state of Bahia, Brazil.

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