Word: ornithologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Museum of Natural History have been spellbound by its dioramas, those three-dimensional displays of stuffed animals and birds set in meticulous reconstructions of their natural habitats. Many of the backgrounds-vistas of veldt and forest clearings-were painted by Francis Lee Jaques, the Illinois-born ornithologist and nature artist. Jaques, who died in 1969, at the age of 81, was also well known for his oil paintings and stark black-and-white drawings of wild life, and he cheerfully withstood Arctic cold and tropical heat to bring back such quarry on paper. To accompany many pictures (including...
...teacher came with his animals. By summer's end, there were more than 70 of them. The pupil later had his own smaller, but equally renowned zoo at Yale: one boa constrictor. Buckley has made two trips to the Arctic on scientific expeditions, and once considered becoming an ornithologist. On that, Brother William reverts to form: "Jim used to get up at 4 in the morning, when he was at Yale, to bird watch. Always struck me as ludicrous...
Hitchhiking Barnacles. A California ornithologist and mammalogist, Author Orr describes the quirks and patterns of migration that scientists have brought to light, mostly during the past quarter-century. He notes that barnacles hitchhike to new climes by attaching themselves to whales, sailfish and ships' bottoms. Like some commuters who are forced to transfer from train to bus or taxi, Adélie penguins migrate using an integrated transport system. They toddle across the bleak Antarctic icecap on foot, swim in the icy sea and cruise lazily on drifting ice floes...
Died. James Fisher, 58, British ornithologist and conservationist; of injuries received in an auto accident; in London. Britons knew him as a sort of apostle for bird watching who kindled their interest through more than 700 radio programs, 200 TV appearances and 27 books. American bird watchers remember his Wild America, which he co-authored with Roger Tory Peterson, an account of their field trip in 1953, during which Fisher logged 601 different species of birds in 100 days...
...removed from the New Left's idea of community control. He has somewhat complicated his Viet Nam position by arguing that U.S. troops there should be volunteers. He is also a serious ecologist who has made expeditions to the Arctic and once considered becoming an ornithologist. The environmental crisis, he believes, is one issue that the Federal Government must tackle itself...