Word: ornithologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deserve his widespread reputation in Japan as an accomplished marine biologist, but as a budding ornithologist Emperor Hirohito may just have to feather his reputation some other way. During a recent visit to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, the Emperor dropped in on a special, eight-month-old friend-her parents were a gift from former President Gerald R. Ford during Hirohito's state visit to the U.S. in 1975. But Japan's most famous young bird seemed unimpressed with her imperial visitor. Hoping to change the fowl's nonchalance, Hirohito studied the crane avidly, then moved...
...most unmelodic song, like the sound of someone shoveling gravel. But when U.C.L.A. Ornithologist Jared Dia mond crept forward for a closer look, he encountered a bizarre and beautiful spectacle. As he reported at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last week, there in a mile-high rain forest in western New Guinea was a golden-crested male bird about the size of a bluejay . It was standing in front of a remarkable structure of its own making, a 4-ft.-high bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles...
...Normally, one would want a photograph, specimen or more than one observer," says Roger Tory Peterson, noted ornithologist-artist. "But Diamond seems credible, and, knowing New Guinea, I am not surprised by his boat trouble." According to Donald Bruning, curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, Diamond is "one of the half-dozen people most qualified to identify this bowerbird...
Ernst Mayr, ornithologist and Agassiz Professor of Zoology Emeritus at Harvard--Doctor of Science...
Finally citizens offered some ideas for frightening the birds away. One Oklahoman proposed setting up bright red or amber lights. Another recommended pinwheels and bells. The state accepted a third suggestion, from Ornithologist George Sutton of the University of Oklahoma: it set out 48 plastic snakes, coiled and with fangs bared, just below the ledges. This scared away the starlings, but the pigeons got the joke and stayed...