The forgotten founder of ornithology

Perspectives in Ornithology Climate Models and Ornithology

1Information Center for the Environment, Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA; 2PRBO Conservation Science, 3820 Cypress Drive #11, Petaluma, California 94954, USA; 3Avian Conservation and Ecology Lab, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, Califo...

Forensic Ornithology

Perspectives in Ornithology

— 467 — The Auk, Vol. 128, Number 3, pages 467−474. ISSN 0004-8038, electronic ISSN 1938-4254.  2011 by The American Ornithologists’ Union. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals. com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/auk.2011.111...

Special Reviews in Ornithology

— 454 — The Auk, Vol. 128, Number 3, pages 454−466. ISSN 0004-8038, electronic ISSN 1938-4254.  2011 by The American Ornithologists’ Union. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, http://www.ucpressjournals. com/reprintInfo.asp. DOI: 10.1525/auk.2011.102...

Cognitive ornithology: the evolution of avian intelligence.

Comparative psychologists interested in the evolution of intelligence have focused their attention on social primates, whereas birds tend to be used as models of associative learning. However, corvids and parrots, which have forebrains relatively the same size as apes, live in complex social groups and have a long developmental period before becoming independent, have demonstrated ape-like inte...