Ornithology Research Articles

How social are ornithologists?

How social are ornithologists?

History of ornithology in Malta

<p>History of ornithology in Malta <br />Joe Sultana, John J. Borg</p><p><br />BirdLife, Malta, 2015 <br />392 pages <br />ISBN 978-99957-818-6-6 <br />€ 49,99</p>

Ornithology from the Flatlands

Ornithology from the Flatlands

Abubillas, cucos y aves rapaces: la autoría de Sófocles, <em>Fr</em>. 581 R. (= Arist., <em>HA</em> 633a 17-28) (<em>Tereo</em>)

Some mythographical and ornithological details in S., Fr . 581 R. (Tereus’ metamorphosis into both a hoopoe and a hawk; Itys’ transformation into a raptor), preserved by Aristotle, HA 633a17-28, are not compatible with what can be known of Sophocles’ Tereus . Such a discrepance casts doubts on the Sophoclean authorship of the fragment.

Molecular phylogeny of some avian species using Cytochrome b gene sequence analysis.

Veritable identification and differentiation of avian species is a vital step in conservative, taxonomic, forensic, legal and other ornithological interventions. Therefore, this study involved the application of molecular approach to identify some avian species i.e. Chicken (Gallus gallus), Muskovy duck (Cairina moschata), Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), Laughing dove (Streptopelia senegalensis), and Rock pigeon (Columba livia). Genomic DNA was extracted from blood samples and partial sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene (358 bp) was amplified and sequenced using universal primers. Sequences alignment and phylogenetic analyses were performed by CLC main workbench program. The obtained five sequences were deposited in GenBank and compared with those previously registered in GenBank. The similarity percentage was 88.60% between Gallus gallus and Coturnix japonica and 80.46% between Gallus gallus and Columba livia. The percentage of identity between the studied species and GenBank species ranged from 77.20% (Columba oenas and Anas platyrhynchos) to 100% (Gallus gallus and Gallus sonneratii, Coturnix coturnix and Coturnix japonica, Meleagris gallopavo and Columba livia). Amplification of the partial sequence of mitochondrial cytochrome b gene proved to be practical for identification of an avian species unambiguously.

Ornithology from the Lakeshore

Ornithology from the Lakeshore

Ornithology: Under their wing

Ornithology: Under their wing

Birds, Ornithology, and Passion

Birds, Ornithology, and Passion

"Essential Ornithology" by Graham Scott. 2010. [book review

"Essential Ornithology" by Graham Scott. 2010. [book review

Civil and Military Birdstrikes in Europe: An Ornithological Approach

Civil and Military Birdstrikes in Europe: An Ornithological Approach

Not Just for Ornithologists

Not Just for Ornithologists

:Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology

:Contributions to the History of Australasian Ornithology

:Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy: The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904–2005

:Ornithology, Evolution, and Philosophy: The Life and Science of Ernst Mayr 1904–2005

:The Ornithologist's Dictionary

:The Ornithologist's Dictionary

FORTY-NINTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNIONCHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS

1U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-111, P.O. Box 37012, Washington, D.C. 20013, USA; 2Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, California 94720, USA; 3Rural Route 2, Box 52R, Bishop, California 93514, USA; 4Florida Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 117800, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA; 5Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA; 6Museum and Department of Zoology, Michigan State, University, West Circle Drive, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA; 7Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Foster Hall 119, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA; 8Department of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G5, Canada; 9Environmental and Conservation Programs, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA; and 10University of Alaska Museum, 907 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775, USA

Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques (review)

Reviewed by: Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques Vincent Benitez Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques. By Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone. (Land marks in Music since 1950.) Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xii, 128 p. ISBN-10: 0754656306; ISBN-13: 9780754656302. $69.95.] Compact disc, music examples, appendix, bibliography, discography, index. In their book Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques , Peter Hill and Nigel Simeone examine a pivotal stage in Messiaen's compositional development when he turned to birdsong as a primary resource of musical material during the 1950s. Although Messiaen had incorporated stylized versions of birdsong in his music of the 1930s and 1940s, he rendered birdcalls with greater accuracy in subsequent decades. Messiaen became increasingly preoccupied with birdsong after World War II. He began a systematic study in the early 1950s, which was aided by consultations with the French ornithologist, Jacques Delamain. As Messiaen scholarship informs us, the composer sought refuge in the world of birdsong after the composition of the Livre d'orgue (1951–52), the culmination of his so-called experimental period, because he was experiencing a creative dead end in his response to post-war European serialism. In other words, Messiaen overcame a compositional crisis by assimilating birdsong into his music, a turning point in his development as a composer. That is why Oiseaux exotiques (1955–56) is so significant in Messiaen's oeuvre, for it was the first work to integrate birdsong successfully into his musical language. Olivier Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques is an important study for three main reasons. First, it outlines the evolution of Messiaen's compositional ideas in Oiseaux exotiques by directly linking the transcriptions found in his birdsong cahiers (notebooks) to his musical language. Because of the opportunity given to them by Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen to examine Messiaen's cahiers in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Hill and Simeone shed new light on Messiaen's music during this pivotal stage of his career. Second, the book offers a unique perspective on Oiseaux exotiques through recorded material provided on an accompanying compact disc. The disc consists of audio examples of American birdsongs taken from an anthology of six 78 rpm records titled American Bird Songs (1942), recorded for Cornell University's Laboratory of Orni thology. Messiaen transcribed these birdsongs and used them while composing Oiseaux exotiques. The compact disc also includes examples of Peter Hill playing Messiaen's transcriptions on the piano, as well as a recording of the world premiere of Oiseaux exotiques at the Petit Théâtre Marigny, Paris on 10 March 1956, taken from the original Véga recording (Véga C30A65, Accord/Universal 476 9209). Third, in order to provide a historical and musical background to Oiseaux exotiques , the book considers the origins of the Domaine musical concerts spearheaded by Pierre Boulez, as well as Messiaen's Réveil des oiseaux (1953). In particular, it supplies hitherto unknown information about Messiaen's involvement with the Domaine musical, along with an examination of Réveil des oiseaux that reveals how it actually belongs to the period of experimentation exemplified by Mode de valeurs et d'intensités (1949) because of its rule-based aesthetic rather than to Messiaen's later bird style (pp. 27–28). [End Page 743] But Hill and Simeone's book is not without its problems. Aside from minor editorial errors, such as the spelling of Klaus Schweizer's name as "Schweitzer" in a footnote (p. 4, n. 12), the listing of Antoine Goléa's Rencontres avec Olivier Messiaen (Paris: René Julliard, 1960) as "Entretiens avec Olivier Messiaen" in the bibliography (p. 118), and the lack of diacritical marks in some French words such as "Église" (p. 18), the book's biggest shortcoming is its analytical commentary. Instead of the type of discourse currently practiced on both sides of the Atlantic, Hill and Simeone offer extravagant imagery that, although engaging at times in its descriptions of Oiseaux exotiques's continuity and texture, contributes little to a substantial theoretical understanding of the music. Let us now turn to an examination of the book's contents where Hill and Simeone discuss the context, genesis, structure, and reception of Oiseaux exotiques, along with the work's relationship to Messiaen's later music. Chapter...

IX.-Rough Notes on Spanish Ornithology.

IX.-Rough Notes on Spanish Ornithology.

Waterbirds of the Chesapeake Region: An Introduction

This special publication about the water birds of the Chesapeake Bay region resulted from a 2005 symposium at the joint meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation and the Chesapeake Research Consortium in Nor folk, Virginia. This venue provided an ideal time for biologists and managers from nu merous agencies, academic institutions, and non-governmental organizations to convene and present information on more than 50 species of waterbirds in the region. Despite the fact that the Chesapeake region has one of the highest concentrations of ornitholo gists and resource managers in the U.S., rela tively few reports have been published in peer-reviewed literature specifically on water bird populations or their habitats. The co-ed itors of this volume saw this symposium as an ideal opportunity to synthesize a great deal of information assessing status, trends, threats, habitat conditions and changes of the many species of waterfowl, shorebirds, rails, colo nial wading birds and seabirds and present it all at one time. In the following, we provide a brief backdrop to the volume and the con text of the chapters contained therein. The enormous concentrations of water birds within the Chesapeake Bay and along the islands and marshes of the Virginia-Mary land seaside have excited the imaginations and appetites of humans, from the earliest hunter-gatherers on its shores, to the period of European colonization when Captain John Smith and others plied the coastlines, and in to the 21st Century. While there was little abundance or distribution information about

Genomics and ornithology

Genomics and ornithology

Named Subspecies and Their Significance in Contemporary Ornithology

Named Subspecies and Their Significance in Contemporary Ornithology