Dr. Price’s “Masturbation in birds” project aims to stimulate interest in ornithology. Dr. Price, based at the University of Liverpool, explains: One of the projects I work on is trying to understand why some species of bird seem to masturbate loads, and other species don’t seem to do it at all. Masturbation is a pretty […]
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Farewell, Robert W. Dickerman, the biologist who coined ‘Davian Behavior’
Sad news. ‘Ornithology Exchange’ reported the death of Dr. Robert W. Dickerman (1926). Dickerman was the biologist who gave necrophilia a good name. Chiefly known as a specimen-based ornithologist and tireless collector of scientific specimens, Bob Dickerman has enriched the collections of natural history museums, from Alaska to New Mexico, and described dozens of new […]
A luxury gift for hawking
Ornithologists are people, too. They enjoy luxury items, especially luxury items advertised in videos stocked with furniture, a hooded hawk, a fashion model, and children’s music. This video, in which (if you watch it) you can hear children’s music and see a fashion model, a hooded hawk, and furniture, seems to have been made with ornithologists […]
Progress in Head Mounted Flying Animal Feeders
Some of our readers will no doubt recognise (in the drawing above) David M. Leslie’s 1999 patent for a Wearable device for feeding and observing birds and other flying animals. The invention provided, perhaps for the first time, assistance for “Persons with a sincere and deep-rooted interest in birds” who “… often share an urge […]
Bearded ornithologists (3)
Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (1896 – 1987) was known as the “Birdman of India” and was closely associated with a great many eminent people – such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Sidney Dillon Ripley. His life-long interest in birds started in his childhood, when he shot a yellow-throated sparrow and had it identified at […]