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It includes more than 33 million photographs, 1.2 million audio recordings, and over two hundred thousand videos [1] covering 96 percent of the world's bird species. [2] There are an ever-increasing numbers of insect, fish, frog, and mammal recordings. The Library is part of Cornell Lab of Ornithology of Cornell University.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology was founded by Arthur A. Allen, who had lobbied for the creation of the country's first graduate program in ornithology; the Lab was established at Cornell University in 1915. Initially, the Lab of Ornithology was housed in the university’s entomology and limnology department. [4]
Allen published an ornithological history in 1933 under the title Fifty Years' Progress of American Ornithology, 1883–1933. He was dedicated to promoting the study of birds to a wide audience, in his books, films and public lectures. His Book of Bird Life (1930, reissued in 1961) was a well-written introduction to ornithology for its time. He ...
Most bird sounds for BirdNote are provided by the Macaulay Library of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.Writers have included Dennis Paulson, [3] Curator Emeritus of The Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound, [4] the late Robert Sundstrom, birding-by-ear expert with the Seattle Audubon Society, Francis Wood, and other writers and naturalists.
It is generally agreed upon in birding and ornithology which sounds are songs and which are calls, and a good field guide will differentiate between the two. Wing feathers of a male club-winged manakin, with the modifications noted by P. L. Sclater in 1860 [4] and discussed by Charles Darwin in 1871. [5] The bird produces sound with its wings.
Species account – Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Bird sound - Florida Museum of Natural History; Eastern wood pewee, Familiar Birds; Range in Canada - Canadian Biodiversity website; Eastern wood pewee, Environment Canada; Explore Species: Eastern Wood-Pewee at eBird (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) Eastern wood pewee photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel ...
Prairie warbler species account - Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Prairie warbler Stamps from Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, St. Kitts at bird-stamps.org "Prairie warbler media". Internet Bird Collection. Prairie warbler photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University) Prairie warbler bird sound at Florida Museum of Natural History
Tricolored heron photos at Field Guide: Birds of the World on Flickr; Tricolored heron Bird Sound at Florida Museum of Natural History "Tricolored heron media". Internet Bird Collection. Tricolored heron photo gallery at VIREO (Drexel University) Tricolored Heron species account at Neotropical Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) (subscription ...