Timeline of ornithology

Egyptian marshland hunting scene 1422–1411 BC

The following is a timeline of ornithology events:

Until 1700

"Oriental Birds" Adriaen Coorte, 1683
Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster in Tahiti, by John Francis Rigaud (1742–1810), 1780

18th century

James Cook's second voyage of exploration in the Pacific. The Resolution and Adventure with fishing craft in Matavai Bay, Tahiti.

19th century

Plate by Johann Conrad Susemihl from the natural history series "Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände" by Lorenz Oken (1779–1851)
Zenaida dove Birds of America John James Audubon, 1827–1838
"Psittacara patagonica Patagonian Parrakeet-Maccaw" in Illustrations of the Family of the Psittacidae, or Parrots, by Edward Lear, 1832

1900–1950

Yellow-headed fan-tailed warbler Cisticola exilis tytleri from The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. 2nd edition, 1924

1950–2000

Bird studies become part of educational programmes in European countries from the 1980s onwards. Here scouts in Spain are being instructed in bird ringing.

21st century

An unnamed Oviraptor and its nest in Senckenberg Museum

See also

Notes

  1. Ali, S (1979). Bird study in India: Its history and its importance. Indian Council for Cultural Relations, New Delhi.
  2. Birds of the Lewis And Clark Expedition
  3. von Helmholtz, Hermann (1873). Uber ein Theorem, geometrisch Ohnliche Bewegungen flussiger Korper betreffend, nebst Anwendung auf das Problem, Luftballons zu lenken. Monatsbericht d. K. Akad. Wissenschaft, Berlin. The law is that the weight of a flying animal is proportional to the cube of its linear dimension and the wing area is proportional to the square of the animals linear dimension, in soaring birds.
  4. Spencer, R. 1985. Marking. In: Campbell. B. & Lack, E. 1985. A dictionary of birds. British Ornithologists' Union. London, pp. 338–341.
  5. Zimmerleute des Waldes at the Internet Movie Database
  6. Avibase
  7. Hou L, Zhou Z, Martin L, Feduccia A (1995), "A beaked bird from the Jurassic of China", Nature 277:616–618
  8. Chamberlain CP, Blum JD, Holmes RT, Feng X, Sherry TW, Graves GR (1997), "The use of isotope tracers for identifyingpopulations of migratory birds", Oecologia 109:132–141
  9. Piersma T, Gill RE (1998), "Guts don't fly: small digestive organs in obese bar-tailed godwits", Auk 115:196–203
  10. PLoS Biol 2(10): e312

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