He contributed notes on the ornithology of northern Norway to Knud Leem's Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper ( 1767 ), translated into English in 1808 as An Account of the Laplanders of Finmark.

He served as a civil surgeon in the Second Boer War, and it was whilst in South Africa that he became interested in ornithology.

The ABA presents several awards for promoting the cause of birding, advancing the state of ornithology, and making significant contributions to education and conservation.

True ornithology began with Thomas C. Jerdon ( 1811 – 1872 ) in southern India and much later Allan Octavian Hume ( 1829 – 1912 ) who built an entire network of ornithologists in India.

This is considered the beginning of scientific ornithology in Europe, revolutionizing ornithological taxonomy by organizing species according to their physical characteristics.

The British Ornithologists ' Union ( BOU ) aims to encourage the study of birds (" ornithology ") in Britain, Europe and around the world, in order to understand their biology and to aid their conservation.

Johann Reinhold Forster ( 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798 ) was a German Lutheran pastor and naturalist of partial Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America.

This is considered the beginning of scientific ornithology in Europe, revolutionizing ornithological taxonomy by organizing species according to their physical characteristics

* The various taxonomically oriented disciplines such as mammalogy, herpetology, ornithology and entomology identify and classify species and study the structures and mechanisms specific to those groups.

The science of ornithology has a long history and studies on birds have helped develop several key concepts in evolution, behaviour and ecology such as the definition of species, the process of speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, island biogeography, phylogeography and conservation.

While early ornithology was principally concerned with descriptions and distributions of species, ornithologists today seek answers to very specific questions, often using birds as models to test hypotheses or predictions based on theories.

A hundred years later, in 1959, R. E. Moreau noted that ornithology in this period was preoccupied with the geographical distributions of various species of birds.

The use of bird skins to document species has been a standard part of systematic ornithology.

The importance of type specimens in the description of species make skin collections a vital resource for systematic ornithology.

Applied and economic ornithology aim to reduce the ill effects of problem birds and enhance gains from beneficial species.

Many species of bird may be considered partly or exclusively predatory ; however, in ornithology the term " bird of prey " applies only to birds of the families listed below.

Using this cluster of anatomical and behavioural features, the species listed below are usually known to be birds of prey in ornithology.

Therein – essentially the bulk of the ornithology textbooks of his day – the species is simply named " the pheasant " in the books ' respective languages.

In ornithology, the meaning of fledging varies, depending on species.

The Great Tit is also an important study species in ornithology.

In addition to ornithology he did valuable work in mammalogy ; his book Fur-Bearing Animals ( 1877 ) being distinguished by the accuracy and completeness of its description of species, several of which were already becoming rare.

Thomas C. Jerdon first described this species in an annotation to his 1845 treatment of the Indian Jungle Nightjar ( C. indicus ) in the Illustrations of Indian ornithology.

Between 1817 and 1818, he described a number of Javanese bird species discovered by Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour ; he also contributed articles on ornithology to the Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, edited and published from 1816 – 1830 by F. G. Levrault.

Many species and several genera in conchology, ichthyology and ornithology were named in honour of Iredale, including:

In 1989 he was awarded the Queen ’ s Service Medal for services to New Zealand ; in the following year he received the Royal Society of New Zealand ’ s Fleming Award for Environmental Achievement ; in 1992 the honorary degree of Doctor of Science was conferred on him by Massey University for his contribution to science ; in 1994 the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( UK ) awarded him its medal for his “ international contribution to species survival ” and in 1998 the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP ) elected him to its Global 500 Roll of Honour for his “ outstanding contributions to the protection and improvement of the environment .” Don was named one of “ 100 Great New Zealanders of the 20th Century ” in the 60th anniversary issue of the New Zealand Listener ; in 2001 the New Zealand Government presented him with a certificate in commemoration of the United Nations International Year of the Volunteer 2001, for his “ valued contribution toward assisting developing countries to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development ”; in 2004, BirdLife International awarded him its Conservation Achievement Award for achievements during his 48 year career in the rescue and recovery of endangered birds within New Zealand and elsewhere ; on his retirement from the NZ Department of Conservation in April 2005 the Department granted him Honorary Technical Associate status – the first such recipient ; in 2010 the Royal Forest & Bird Protection Society of NZ presented him with its “ Old Blue Award ” in recognition of his extraordinary and sustained contributions to conservation in NZ and worldwide ”; and in 2011 he became a “ Fellow of the Ornithological Society of NZ in recognition of his “ lifetime contributions to ornithology and to the work of the Society ”.

However, by his own confession, despite being especially fascinated by one family, the birds of paradise, Attenborough was not an expert in ornithology.

After being put in charge of the natural history collection of Christian Fleischer he became interested in ornithology, and in 1764 he published Ornithologia Borealis, which included the details of many Scandinavian birds, some described for the first time.

He apparently did not take soldiering very seriously, being more interested in ornithology which in those days consisted of collecting specimens and eggs.

This suggestion has been repeated many times in ornithology books, but while this may accidentally happen, surveys of nightjar research have found very little evidence to support this idea.

Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland was the son of the former ; he helped to found a medical college in nearby Willoughby, Ohio, and he compiled the first ornithology of Ohio.

A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called " the Father of Indian Ornithology " and, by those who found him dogmatic, " the Pope of Indian ornithology.

Here he found his first illustrated ornithology book ( by Johann Conrad Susemihl, a later edition of which made use of plates by Wolf himself ) in the collection of a trader with an interest in birds and was surprised by the poor quality of the plates.

It is now published by BB 2000 Ltd, which is wholly owned by The British Birds Charitable Trust ( registered charity number 1089422 ), established for the benefit of British ornithology.

The Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology ( EGI ), at Oxford University, England is an academic body which conducts research in ornithology and the general field of evolutionary ecology and conservation biology, with an emphasis on understanding organisms in natural environments.

In 1872 he published his Key to North American Birds, which, revised and rewritten in 1884 and 1901, did much to promote the systematic study of ornithology in America.

He was the primary writer of A History of North American Birds, which was published in 1874 and continues to be an important publication in ornithology today.

The son was educated at the high school of Norwich, on leaving which his independent means enabled him to travel and to take up as a recreation the study of natural history, especially ornithology and entomology.

Mayo is best known as the joint author, with Baird and Ridgway, of A History of North American Birds ( 3 volumes, 1874 ), which was the first attempt since John James Audubon's ( thirty years prior ) to complete the study of American ornithology.

Hume's interest in ornithology reduced due to this theft as well as a landslip caused by heavy rains in Simla which damaged his personal museum and specimens.

One of his favourite hobbies is ornithology, which he seems to be very fond of, and he also likes baseball.

Much of the latter is today a wildlife sanctuary and Argenta is home of the Marsh Museum which offers many facilities for ornithology.

It currently houses over 25 million objects and artifacts in its collections, which include ichthyology, paleontology ( both vertebrate and invertebrate ), botany, paleoboatany and palynology, herpetology, malacology, mammalogy, ornithology, environmental archaeology, historical archaeology, archeology of the Caribbean and Florida, and the ethnography of Latin and North Americas.

He was also tasked with arranging the British birds collections, in the course of which he developed a lasting interest in ornithology.

* Leçons élémentaires sur l ' histoire naturelle des oiseaux ( Elementary Lessons on the Natural History of Birds ), a popularization of ornithology, in which he joined Jules Verreaux in collaborating with Jean-Charles Chenu.