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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, after whom the Edward Grey Institute is named.. The Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology (EGI), at Oxford University in England, is an academic body that conducts research in ornithology and the general field of evolutionary ecology and conservation biology, with an emphasis on understanding organisms in natural environments.
William Archibald Spooner (22 July 1844 – 29 August 1930) was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many ...
The word Don is used for fellows and tutors of a college or university, especially traditional collegiate universities such as Oxford and Cambridge in England. [7] Teachers at Radley, a boys-only boarding-only public school modelled after Oxford colleges of the early 19th century, are known to boys as "dons".
An experiment on these lines has been undertaken at Oxford since the founding of the Oxford Bird Census in 1927 [...]. The scheme now has a full-time director, Mr W.B.Alexander . It is intended to put this undertaking on a permanent footing and to build it up as a clearing-house for bird-watching results in this country.
Three people birdwatching with binoculars. Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.A birdwatcher may observe by using their naked eye, by using a visual enhancement device such as binoculars or a telescope, by listening for bird sounds, [1] [2] watching public webcams, or by viewing smart bird feeder cameras.
Originally a “crowd-funded” gadget on Indiegogo in 2020, Bird Buddy is the first mainstream “smart” bird feeder that takes photos and videos of birds in your backyard or front yard, and ...
The only bird known to make use of infrasound (at about 20 Hz) is the western capercaillie. [48] The hearing range of birds is from below 50 Hz to around 12 kHz, with maximum sensitivity between 1 and 5 kHz. [22] [49] The black jacobin is exceptional in producing sounds at about 11.8 kHz. It is not known if they can hear these sounds. [50]
The use of bird skins to document species has been a standard part of systematic ornithology. Bird skins are prepared by retaining the key bones of the wings, legs, and skull along with the skin and feathers. In the past, they were treated with arsenic to prevent fungal and insect (mostly dermestid) attack.