The American Ornithological Society will remove people’s names from birds. Many of those birds are now named after prominent Philadelphia scientists. In ''American Ornithology,'' Alexander Wilson ...

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology today announced the release of a new online tool for studying biodiversity and the ...

Bird enthusiasts are familiar with Wilson’s Plover, Wilson’s Snipe and Wilson’s Warbler. But who is Wilson, and why are these birds named after him? Ornithology expert Jed Burtt reveals and explores ...

The study of wild birds has had a disproportionate impact on the birth and evolution of several branches of science. Thus argue Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie in Ten Thousand Birds. In ...

Nineteenth-century ornithologists, like journalists, specialized in the — who, what, where, when — of observing birds. Many birds of this era were collected in the field, stuffed and studied, leading ...

Welcome to the Bird Cams Lab, a project from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology now in development with support from the National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to join viewers from around ...

Lined with endless rows of white cabinets, Harvard’s Ornithology Collection is imposing — even mausoleum-like — upon first glance; it’s only after opening the drawers that the true colors of the ...

This two volume scrapbook contains 131 leaves of mounted drawings, pattern plates for the colorist, and uncolored proof impressions compiled by the Scottish naturalist William Jardine for his five ...

A free online course in ornithology can be found on the home page of Northfield birder/blogger Dan Tallman. He and his wife moved to Northfield a couple of years ago, after his retirement as biology ...