Avian Ecopedagogies: Women Ornithologists and Environmental Education in Late Nineteenth-Century America by Clara Contreras Ameduri

“…It aims to discuss how these texts allowed American female ornithologists to develop ecopedagogical strategies against bird extinction by encouraging children’s involvement in early animal welfare and nature conservation movements, this fomenting the development of environmental awareness from an early age at a time of recurrent bird slaughter. …”
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DAVID LACK: TWO VERSIONS OF SPECIATION, FROM NEUTRALISM TO THE ADAPTIVE APPROACH by Ya. M. Gall

“…The article reviews the development of two leading concepts of speciation, developed in the 1940-s by the British ornithologist and ecologists David Lack (1910–1973). …”
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Raptors’ Species Composition in the Buzuluk pine forest (Orenburg and Samara regions, Russia) based on observations in the past and present by Evgeniy V. Barbazyuk, Pavel V. Velmovsky

“…It uses data by scientist and ornithologist E.P. Knorre collected between 1928 and 1941, present time observations carried out since 2000 to the present, and published data by other researchers who have visited Buzuluk pine forest starting from the beginning of the 21st century.…”
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Expéditions scientifiques dans les déserts iraniens et le mont Elbourz entre 1925 et 1939 by Dominique Lévy-Jahanbakht

“…We will rely on the travel writings of Austrian physician Alfons Gabriel (1894-1976) and his wife, who left thrice for Iran between 1929 and 1937, as well as those of his counterpart, the Austrian geographer Gustav Stratil-Sauer (1894‑1975) and his wife Lotte Stratil-Sauer (1904-1975), and the German ornithologist Gerd Heinrich (1896-1984).…”
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Le collège-lycée Gérôme à Vesoul (1610-2019) : retour sur une démarche originale de préservation de collections patrimoniales by Liliane Hamelin, Romain Joulia

“…They concern the fine arts (plaster casts intended for drawing lessons), the teaching of natural sciences (educational posters, human and animal skeletons), physics and literature.Ordered from catalogues of specialised producers, some of the artefacts of the lycée Gérôme are present in other inventoried collections like those of the lycée Gambetta of Tourcoing or the lycée Guez-de-Balzac of Angoulême.Two private collections of liturgical garments and objects have just been added to these items’ inventories, related to the presence of a chaplaincy and the mineralogical collection of Paul Petitclerc (1840-1937), native of Vesoul, a reputed ornithologist and president of the French geological society.…”
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Large Raptor Records in Novosibirsk Region, Russia by Dmitry A. Shtol, Julia O. Kashinskaya

“…All of the oblast’s raptor are listed in the Red Book of the Novosibirsk Region and are rare and protected, and thus their sightings by bird watchers are of interest to the professional community of ornithologists. We have summarized our sightings in recent years of the eagles, White-Tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) and Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) in Novosibirsk Region (Fig. 1), and we present them below.…”
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Eco-NIOKR LLC – 18 years for the protection of birds at the electric grid facilities of the Russia by Igor A. Panov

“…Products are developed by experienced designers with the participation of ornithologists – professional experts in bird protection. …”
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The Neotropical Orb-Weaver Genera Epeiroides, Bertrana and Amazonepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). by Herbert W. Levi

“…Most Neotropical spider specimens preserved in museums were collected by ornithologists, entomologists or amateur naturalists, who picked up spiders when their preferred organisms could not be found. …”
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Wintering Eastern Imperial Eagles in Dagestan, Russia by Gadzhibek S. Dzhamirzoev, Rinur H. Bekmansurov, Mikhail V. Korepov, Stanislav A. Stryukov, Hadzhaman N. Ismailov

“…EIE wintering grounds in Eastern Transcaucasus have been known to ornithologists for a long time (Satunin, 1907; Stanchinsky, 1914). …”
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Morphometric Formula for Field Determination of the Sex of Steppe Eagle (Aquila nipalensis) Nestlings in Altai-Sayan Region by Natalya G. Andreyenkova, Maria A. Shalnova, Igor V. Karyakin, Elena P. Shnayder

“…Sex determination is also necessary when working with sick and injured birds, in rehabilitation centers, which do not always have the opportunity and time for genetic analysis. Experienced ornithologists in most cases can quite accurately determine the sex of nestling by eye, but this does not always work, and not all researchers have sufficient experience. …”
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Current Distribution of the Turkestan White Stork (Ciconia ciconia asiatica) in Kazakhstan by Vassiliy Fedorenko, Yuliya Zima

“…The most recent specialized studies on the distribution of the White Stork here were conducted in the 1980s. Subsequently, ornithologists were only aware of isolated nests, and in the last 15 years, up until recently, in Kazakhstan, there was only one known active nest in the Zhambyl region. …”
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