How to Use ornithology in a Sentence

ornithology

noun
  • Audubon is still lauded for his contributions to the fields of ornithology and art.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Scientific American, 17 May 2013
  • All ornithologists have to go birding, and all the birders have a little bit of ornithology in them.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • These vortical tricks do more than rewrite ornithology textbooks.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • So begins our story and Mandrick’s lifelong love of ornithology.
    — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • The ornithology lab said that artificial light in such buildings distracts and disorients the birds.
    — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • See collection of beautiful ornithology books and colorful bird field guides.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Text and drawing together take us to the dawn of ornithology—that is to say, to the first efforts to collect objective information about birds.
    — Simon Barnes, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • To make sure his pessimistic message is right up front, a third of Brunner’s 19 chapters focus on famous liars in ornithology.
    — Richard O. Prum, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2018
  • There are a lot of ways to do ornithology, but there are infinite ways to do birding — because birding is about enjoying and connecting with nature.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The lab’s work soon attracted the attention of ornithology researchers at Cornell.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Richard Feynman is often quoted as saying that the philosophy of science is of much use to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
    — Philip Ball, WIRED, 2 June 2018
  • According to Cornell’s ornithology lab, almost half of existing bird species worldwide are on the decline.
    — Eliza Principe Garcia, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Krieger was not only a treasured pediatrician, but also earned his master's degree in ornithology.
    — Quinn Clark, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The bird carcasses will be sent off to the federal forensic ornithology lab in Ashland, Oregon, to determine the cause of death.
    — National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2016
  • Prince Philip, a lifelong ornithology enthusiast, has been patron of BTO for more than 30 years.
    — Maria Puente, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Lauren Pharr, a North Carolina State ornithology graduate student, was one of them.
    — Kristi Odom, National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Before this discovery, the black-browed babbler was considered the biggest enigma in Indonesian ornithology.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Known for his love of ornithology, Reeves has created entire series devoted to birds, even spawning a TV show and book of bird illustrations.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • But the data gathered from their farm and the animals that survived may prove critical and will be combined with other data being gathered by the ornithology institute, which tracks many hundreds of animals.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 17 June 2017
  • She's now been admitted to several PhD programs in ornithology, which was the focus of her Earthwatch expedition.
    — Ken Budd, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2021
  • Rick Prum, a professor of ornithology and evolutionary biology at Yale and a senior author of the study, observes in a Yale press release.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Perhaps the ornithology community and other proponents of renaming should put a modicum of effort into wrestling with the eradication of slavery that still exists here and throughout the world.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Investigators are working the scene and are sending the bird carcasses to the federal forensic ornithology lab in Ashland, Oregon, to determine cause of death.
    — National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2016
  • In 1933, his father lost his job, a development that might have prevented Calhoun from attending college, had ornithology not intervened.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Hummingbird Books founder Wendy Dodson, who studied ornithology at Cornell, named the store after her favorite bird and said there will be an extensive nature and science section.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
  • Nearby, but out of sight, is the south end of Cayuga Lake, and the gorges through which Fall Creek runs, and the university’s rolling golf course, equestrian research facility, and lab of ornithology.
    — Sorayya Khan, Longreads, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The habitat is home to 40 birds from 17 species in total, all native to the Americas, according to David Rimlinger, curator of ornithology.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2021
  • His fiancée followed him in a South Pacific steamer in 1950 and was hired at the museum, too, eventually running the ornithology department.
    — New York Times, 18 June 2021
  • Gillet belongs to the Bird Technical Advisory Committee, which is working with ornithology experts to establish goals for the recovery of the species.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 17 Dec. 2025
  • The year was 1924, and Allen was an energetic ornithology professor at Cornell University, about to take a sabbatical.
    — Tim Gallagher, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024

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