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  • In fact, she has a Phd in Ornithology and converted me to a birder too.

    Are You A Birdwatcher? 2009

  • In fact, she has a Phd in Ornithology and converted me to a birder too.

    Are You A Birdwatcher? 2009

  • Graham Appleton, a spokesman for the British Trust for Ornithology, which is carrying out the research work, said the number of cuckoos in Britain has fallen by about 60 percent over the last 25 years.

    SFGate: Top News Stories 2011

  • We remember the time when the very word Ornithology would have required interpretation in mixed company; when a naturalist was looked on as a sort of out-of-the-way but amiable monster.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

  • These journeys were attended with a success scarcely adequate to the privations which were experienced in their prosecution; but the "Ornithology" otherwise obtained a wide circulation, and, excelling in point of illustration every production that had yet appeared in America, gained for the author universal commendation.

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

  • _Columbiad_ was magnificently printed in Philadelphia, and the great undertakings of Rees '"Cyclopædia" and Wilson's "Ornithology" entered upon.

    The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885

  • After Wilson's death three supplementary volumes to his "Ornithology" were added by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and it was Lucien Bonaparte's son, Prince Canino, who first suggested to Audubon the publication of his collections.

    The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885

  • "Ornithology," and tried in vain to get sight of a copy of it.

    John James Audubon John Burroughs 1879

  • Audubon had learned that three editions of Wilson's "Ornithology" were soon to be published in Edinburgh, and he set to work vigorously to get his book out before them.

    John James Audubon John Burroughs 1879

  • "Ornithology", the gospel singer and pastor Walter Hawkins, a traditional Rwandan ode and more, all played in his own artful arrangements.

    NYT > Home Page By ANTHONY TOMMASINI 2010

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