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31 mag 2024 · ornithology, a branch of zoology dealing with the study of birds. Most of the early writings on birds are more anecdotal than scientific, but they represent a broad foundation of knowledge, including much folklore, on which later work was based.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
3 giorni fa · The study of birds is called ornithology. Birds are feathered theropod dinosaurs and constitute the only known living dinosaurs. Likewise, birds are considered reptiles in the modern cladistic sense of the term, and their closest living relatives are the crocodilians.
28 mag 2024 · Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Birds provides a comprehensive account of the research on our world’s montane avifauna. The editors, Dan Chamberlain, Aleksi Lehikoinen, and Kathy Martin, with a whopping 7 decades of combined experience studying alpine birds, provide not only detailed descriptions of mountain bird biology, but also present a robust roadmap for future research on their ...
26 mag 2024 · Colonists and vagrants in Iberia: the northward shift of African birds. A surprising number of African birds have appeared in Spain and Portugal in recent decades, several of which have established breeding...
4 giu 2024 · According to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology Birds of the World, 51 members of the Cardinalidae family range from southern Canada to Argentina! Many of these beautiful birds live in tropical habitats, although several also breed in North America and migrate to Central and South America for the winter.
3 giorni fa · A group of scientists has released the first comprehensive list of birds that haven’t been documented in more than a decade, with the help of Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Their methods, and the global list of “lost” birds, have been published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
9 giu 2024 · Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by function from calls (relatively simple vocalizations).
