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136 relations: A. Hoen & Co., Alaska, American Birding Association, American Ornithological Society, Aztec thrush, ‘Elepaio, Bald eagle, Behavior, Belted kingfisher, Bicknell's thrush, Binomial nomenclature, Bird collections, Brewster Medal, British Ornithologists' Union, Brookville, Indiana, Buff-collared nightjar, California, California Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Caribbean, Catskill Mountains, Charles Darwin, Charles Wallace Richmond, Chicago, Clarence King, Common nightingale, Costa Rica, Daniel Giraud Elliot, Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, Darwin's finches, E. H. Harriman, Edward S. Curtis, Elliott Coues, Endemism, Engraving, Española cactus finch, Eugene P. Bicknell, Evolution, Fauna, Field guide, Field mark, Field Museum of Natural History, Flora, Florida, Food coloring, Forest and Stream, Frank Chapman (ornithologist), Galápagos Islands, Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, George Bird Grinnell, ..., George Brown Goode, Grey-cheeked thrush, Harriman Alaska expedition, Harry C. Oberholser, Hawaii (island), Henry Henshaw, Herbert Friedmann, Hood mockingbird, Idaho Territory, Identification key, Illinois, Illustrator, Indiana University, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, International Ornithologists' Union, Joel Asaph Allen, John Burroughs, John L. Ridgway, John Muir, John Thayer (ornithologist), José Castulo Zeledón, Larch, Linda Hall Library, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Master's degree, McGill University, Medium tree finch, Milton Bradley, Monotypic taxon, Montague Chamberlain, Mount Carmel, Illinois, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, Mycology, National Academy of Sciences, Natural history, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Nature reserve, Nevada, New York (state), New York Academy of Sciences, Nuttall Ornithological Club, Ogden Rood, Olney, Illinois, Ornithology, Osprey, Passerine, Philately, Plant nursery, Pleroma, Purple finch, Pyramid Lake (Nevada), Reproduction, Richard Rathbun, Ridgway's hawk, Robert Ridgway Award, Sacramento, California, Samuel Pierpont Langley, Samuel Prout, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Smithsonian Institution, Species description, Spectrum, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Stephen Alfred Forbes, Subspecies, Synonym (taxonomy), Systematics, Tanager, Taxon, Taxonomy (biology), The Auk, Thomas Mayo Brewer, Trinomial nomenclature, Turkey vulture, Turquoise cotinga, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, United States Geological Survey, Utah Territory, Vienna, Wandering albatross, Water bird, William Bartram, William Brewster (ornithologist), William Henry Holmes, Wing loading, Zoological Society of London. Expand index (86 more) »
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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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American Birding Association
The American Birding Association (ABA) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1969, dedicated to recreational birding in Canada and the United States.
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American Ornithological Society
The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States.
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Aztec thrush
The Aztec thrush (Ridgwayia pinicola) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.
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‘Elepaio
The elepaios are three species of monarch flycatcher in the genus Chasiempis.
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Bald eagle
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek ἅλς, hals "sea", αἰετός aietos "eagle", λευκός, leukos "white", κεφαλή, kephalē "head") is a bird of prey found in North America.
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Behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (Commonwealth English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.
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Belted kingfisher
The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, the only member of that group commonly found in the northern United States and Canada.
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Bicknell's thrush
The Bicknell's thrush (Catharus bicknelli) is a medium-sized thrush, at and.
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Binomial nomenclature
Binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system") also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Bird collections
Bird collections are curated repositories of scientific specimens consisting of birds and their parts.
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Brewster Medal
The William Brewster Memorial Award, usually referred to as the Brewster Medal, is awarded by the American Ornithologists' Union and is named for ornithologist William Brewster.
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British Ornithologists' Union
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.
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Brookville, Indiana
Brookville is a town in Brookville Township, Franklin County, Indiana, United States.
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Buff-collared nightjar
The buff-collared nightjar (Antrostomus ridgwayi) is a small sized nightjar.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (abbreviated Caltech)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; other spellings such as.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
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Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Charles Wallace Richmond
Charles Wallace Richmond (December 31, 1868 – May 19, 1932) was an American ornithologist.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Clarence King
Clarence Rivers King (January 6, 1842 – December 24, 1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer, and author.
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Common nightingale
The common nightingale or simply nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), also known as rufous nightingale, is a small passerine bird best known for its powerful and beautiful song.
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.
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Daniel Giraud Elliot
Daniel Giraud Elliot (March 7, 1835 – December 22, 1915) was an American zoologist.
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Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal
The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology study published in a three- to five-year period." Named after Daniel Giraud Elliot, it was first awarded in 1917.
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Darwin's finches
Darwin's finches (also known as the Galápagos finches) are a group of about fifteen species of passerine birds.
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E. H. Harriman
Edward Henry "Ned" Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American railroad executive.
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Edward S. Curtis
Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 – October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American peoples.
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Elliott Coues
Elliott Coues (September 9, 1842 – December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Engraving
Engraving is the practice of incising a design onto a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it.
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Española cactus finch
The Española cactus finch (Geospiza conirostris), is a species of bird in the tanager family Thraupidae.
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Eugene P. Bicknell
Eugene Pintard Bicknell (September 23, 1859 – February 9, 1925) was an American botanist and ornithologist.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Fauna
Fauna is all of the animal life of any particular region or time.
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Field guide
A field guide is a book designed to help the reader identify wildlife (plants or animals) or other objects of natural occurrence (e.g. minerals).
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Field mark
A field mark is a characteristic (e.g. in plumage) useful for species identification, usually birds.
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Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History, also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in the city of Chicago, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.
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Flora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.
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Florida
Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.
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Food coloring
Food coloring, or color additive, is any dye, pigment or substance that imparts color when it is added to food or drink.
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Forest and Stream
Forest and Stream was a magazine featuring hunting, fishing, and other outdoor activities in the United States.
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Frank Chapman (ornithologist)
Frank Michler Chapman (June 12, 1864 – November 15, 1945) was an American ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides.
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Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón, other Spanish name: Las Islas Galápagos), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, west of continental Ecuador.
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Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
The Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel was a geological survey made by order of the Secretary of War according to acts of Congress of March 2, 1867, and March 3, 1869, under the direction of Brig.
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George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer.
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George Brown Goode
George Brown Goode (13 February 1851 – 6 September 1896), was an ichthyologist, although most of his time was spent as a museum administrator, and he was very interested in the history of science, especially the history of the development of science in America.
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Grey-cheeked thrush
The grey-cheeked thrush (Catharus minimus) is a medium-sized thrush.
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Harriman Alaska expedition
In 1899, wealthy railroad magnate Edward Harriman arranged for a maritime expedition to Alaska.
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Harry C. Oberholser
Harry Church Oberholser (June 25, 1870 – December 25, 1963) was an American ornithologist.
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Hawaii (island)
Hawaiʻi is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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Henry Henshaw
Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (March 3, 1850 – August 1, 1930) was an American ornithologist.
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Herbert Friedmann
Herbert Friedmann (April 22, 1900 – May 14, 1987) was an American ornithologist.
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Hood mockingbird
The Hood mockingbird (Mimus macdonaldi) also known as the Española mockingbird is a species of bird in the Mimidae family.
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Idaho Territory
The Territory of Idaho was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 3, 1863, until July 3, 1890, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as Idaho.
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Identification key
In biology, an identification key is a printed or computer-aided device that aids the identification of biological entities, such as plants, animals, fossils, microorganisms, and pollen grains.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Illustrator
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea.
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Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.
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International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals.
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International Ornithologists' Union
The International Ornithologists' Union, formerly known as the International Ornithological Committee, is a group of about 200 international ornithologists, and is responsible for the International Ornithological Congress and other international ornithological activities, undertaken by its standing committees.
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Joel Asaph Allen
Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist, mammalogist and ornithologist.
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John Burroughs
John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the U.S. conservation movement.
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John L. Ridgway
John Livzey Ridgway (28 February 1859, Mount Carmel, Illinois – 27 December 1947, Glendale, California) (also known as John Livsey Ridgway or John Livesy Ridgway) was an American scientific illustrator and brother of ornithologist Robert Ridgway.
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John Muir
John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
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John Thayer (ornithologist)
John Eliot Thayer (April 3, 1862 – July 29, 1933) was an American amateur ornithologist.
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José Castulo Zeledón
José Castulo Zeledón (March 24, 1846 – July 16, 1923) was a Costa Rican ornithologist.
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Larch
Larches are conifers in the genus Larix, of the family Pinaceae (subfamily Laricoideae).
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Linda Hall Library
The Linda Hall Library is a privately endowed American library of science, engineering and technology located in Kansas City, Missouri, sitting "majestically on a urban arboretum." It is the "largest independently funded public library of science, engineering and technology in North America" and "among the largest science libraries in the world.".
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 Ithaca, New York – August 22, 1927 Unadilla, New York) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered as one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.
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Master's degree
A master's degree (from Latin magister) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.
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McGill University
McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Medium tree finch
The medium tree finch (Camarhynchus pauper) is a critically endangered species of bird in the Darwin's finch group of the tanager family Thraupidae.
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Milton Bradley
Milton Bradley (November 8, 1836 – May 30, 1911) was an American business magnate, game pioneer and publisher, credited by many with launching the board game industry, with the Milton Bradley Company.
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Montague Chamberlain
Montague Chamberlain (April 5, 1844 – February 10, 1924) was a Canadian-American businessman, naturalist, and ethnographer.
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Mount Carmel, Illinois
Mount Carmel is a city in and the county seat of Wabash County, Illinois, United States.
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Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
The Museo Nacional de Costa Rica is the national museum of Costa Rica, located in the capital of San José.
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Mycology
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicine, food, and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as toxicity or infection.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States.
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Nature reserve
A nature reserve (also called a natural reserve, bioreserve, (natural/nature) preserve, or (national/nature) conserve) is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research.
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Nevada
Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New York Academy of Sciences
The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) was founded in January 1817.
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Nuttall Ornithological Club
The Nuttall Ornithological Club is the oldest ornithology organization in the United States.
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Ogden Rood
Ogden Nicholas Rood (3 February 1831 in Danbury, Connecticut – 12 November 1902 in Manhattan) was an American physicist best known for his work in color theory.
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Olney, Illinois
Olney is a city in Richland County, Illinois, United States.
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Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds.
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Osprey
The osprey or more specifically the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.
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Passerine
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.
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Philately
Philately is the study of stamps and postal history and other related items.
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Plant nursery
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size.
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Pleroma
Pleroma (Greek πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers.
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Purple finch
The purple finch (Haemorhous purpureus) is a bird in the finch family, Fringillidae.
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Pyramid Lake (Nevada)
Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, northeast of Reno.
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Reproduction
Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents".
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Richard Rathbun
Richard Rathbun (January 25, 1852 – July 16, 1918) was an American biologist and administrator at the Smithsonian Institution.
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Ridgway's hawk
Ridgway's hawk (Buteo ridgwayi) is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, native to the island of Hispaniola.
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Robert Ridgway Award
The ABA Robert Ridgway Award for Publications in Field Ornithology is an award given by the American Birding Association to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field ornithology literature in the areas of North American bird distribution and field identification.
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Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
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Samuel Pierpont Langley
Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and aviation pioneer.
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Samuel Prout
John Jackson in 1831 Market Day by Samuel Prout A View in Nuremberg by Samuel Prout Utrecht Town Hall by Samuel Prout in 1841 Samuel Prout (17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was one of the masters of British watercolour architectural painting.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Species description
A species description is a formal description of a newly discovered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper.
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Spectrum
A spectrum (plural spectra or spectrums) is a condition that is not limited to a specific set of values but can vary, without steps, across a continuum.
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Spencer Fullerton Baird
Spencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator.
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Stephen Alfred Forbes
Stephen Alfred Forbes (May 29, 1844 – March 13, 1930) was the first chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.
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Systematics
Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time.
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Tanager
The tanagers (singular) comprise the bird family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
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Taxonomy (biology)
Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.
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The Auk
The Auk: Ornithological Advances is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).
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Thomas Mayo Brewer
Thomas Mayo Brewer (November 21, 1814 – January 24, 1880) was an American naturalist, specializing in ornithology and oology.
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Trinomial nomenclature
In biology, trinomial nomenclature refers to names for taxa below the rank of species.
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Turkey vulture
The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura), also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard (or just buzzard), and in some areas of the Caribbean as the John crow or carrion crow, is the most widespread of the New World vultures.
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Turquoise cotinga
The turquoise cotinga or Ridgway's cotinga (Cotinga ridgwayi) is a species of bird in the family Cotingidae.
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Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
The Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, or USC(IP), is a high-ranking official in the United States Department of Commerce and the principal advisor to the United States Secretary of Commerce on the intellectual property matters.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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Utah Territory
The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state.
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Vienna
Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.
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Wandering albatross
The wandering albatross, snowy albatross, white-winged albatross or goonieRobertson, C. J. R. (2003) (Diomedea exulans) is a large seabird from the family Diomedeidae, which has a circumpolar range in the Southern Ocean.
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Water bird
The term water bird, waterbird or aquatic bird (not to be confused with wading birds) is used to refer to birds that live on or around water.
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William Bartram
William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist.
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William Brewster (ornithologist)
William Brewster (July 5, 1851 – July 11, 1919) was an American ornithologist.
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William Henry Holmes
William Henry Holmes (December 1, 1846 – April 20, 1933) — known as W.H. Holmes — was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director.
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Wing loading
In aerodynamics, wing loading is the total weight of an aircraft divided by the area of its wing.
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Zoological Society of London
The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ridgway
