(by 10 people)
Interested in the serious study of bird biology?
Ornithology: Science of birds. Books for the serious ornithologist.
Can you identify this bird?
Amazing Birds In the Spotlight
Amazing Birds: A Treasury of Facts and Trivia about the Avian World
Amazon Price: $14.81 (as of 08/07/2008)
List Price: $18.99
For lovers of birds and trivia, this captivating book features a wealth of fascinating facts, figures, and folklore about our feathered friends. It's beautifully illustrated throughout with colorful artworks, photographs, and diagrams.
Great Ornithology Books on Amazon
Birds: The Art of Ornithology
This remarkably beautiful volume gathers together a selection of the most important and vibrant ornithological art from London's Natural History Museum.
Release Date: 05/03/2005
Amazon Price: (as of 08/07/2008)
List Price: $60.00
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany
What is it about birds that calls to us? Why do humans engage themselves with birds? In an attempt to understand human response to birds, Gibson began to search for texts and illustrations to help explain this fascination. His book is not, as he states, a
Release Date: 10/25/2005
Amazon Price: $19.77 (as of 08/07/2008)
List Price: $29.95
Ornithology
The book is without doubt the best ornithology textbook in existance. While this may be aided by the fact that it is virtually the only one there is out there, it is accurate, comprehensive and user friendly.
Amazon Price: $101.40 (as of 08/07/2008)
List Price:
Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure and Function
This book-a visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds-is one of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written. A concise atlas of avian anatomy, it contains more than 200 specially prepared, accurate, and clear drawings that include material never illustrated before. The text is as informative as the drawings; written at a level appropriate to undergraduate students and to bird lovers in general, it explains why birds look and act the way they do.
Amazon Price: $29.25 (as of 08/07/2008)
List Price: $32.50
Bird Song Ear Training Guide: Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody? Learn to Recognize the Songs of Birds from the Midwest and Northeast States
Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 08/07/2008)
List Price: $14.95
Ornithology textbooks
Birds of the World by Les Beletsky
This book is a superb reference to the birds of the world. It focuses on all the main orders and families giving concise background information. Each section is accompanied by a number of expertly painted of various representative species. Highly recommended. This should be on any birdwatchers list.0 points
Ornithology by Franklin B. Gill
The information in this textbook is absolutely wonderful! Frank Gill presents an "encyclopedia" of information in an easy-to-read, comprehensible format. Anyone interested in the serious study of bird biology will want to add this textbook to his or her bookshelf.0 points
Manual of Neotropical Birds, Volume 1 (Manual of Neotropical Birds) by Emmet Reid Blake
Containing more than one-third of the world's bird species, the neotropical region surpasses all other zoogeographic regions in the diversity of its avian fauna. Though the exploration and cataloging stages of ornithology are now virtually complete, new species and undescribed subspecies of birds are still occasionally discovered. In this manual, Emmet R. Blake has drawn on his experience of forty-eight years in the field and laboratory to prepare a comprehensive, detailed, and authoritative syn...0 points
Warning from the Experts
National Geographic News
Having reviewed the latest available data, ornithologists from 20 countries who attended last month's International Wader Study Group conference suggested half of all waders are in decline, with just 16 percent bucking the downward trend. They said well over 100 species were now at risk, with 23 of them classed as "globally threatened."
World's Wading Birds Are Vanishing Fast, Experts Warn
Wader populations are plummeting globally, say orn more...0 points
Bird Art
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
Migration
- Greenshank - the migration story
- Greenshanks are familiar migrants throughout Britain and Ireland, sighted widely along coastal and inland waters in spring and autumn.
Blue-bellied Roller
The Blue-bellied Roller, Coracias cyanogaster is a member of the roller family of birds which breeds across Africa in a narrow belt from Senegal to northeast Zaire. It is resident, apart from some local seasonal movements, in mature moist savannah dominated by Isoberlinia trees.
Buy at AllPosters.com
Plan your next trip here.
Hummingbirds of US & Canada
- Back to Top
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Forest RSS News
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byNew Table of Contents
Ornithology Blog Posts from Google
New Wikipedia - Ornithology
Ornithology (from Greek: ?????, ???????, ornis, ornithos, "bird"; and ?????, logos, "knowledge") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of birds. Several aspects of the study of ornithology differ from closely related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds.{cite book|author=Newton, Ian|year=1998|title=Population limitation in birds|publisher=Academic Press|pages=2|isbn=0-12-517366-0}} Most marked among these is the extent of field studies undertaken by amateur volunteers working within the parameters of strict scientific methodology.
The science of ornithology has a long history and studies on birds aided the introduction and refinement of key concepts in evolution, behaviour and ecology such as those of species, speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, island biogeography, phylogeography and conservation. While early ornithology was principally concerned with descriptions and distributions of species, ornithologists today concern themselves with answering specific questions, often using birds as models to test hypotheses and predictions based on theory. A wide range of tools and techniques are used in ornithology and innovations are constantly made.
