Ornithology

We're excited for them to learn more.

With a full schedule and no time to spare, our drivers started up the UTVs and we jumped back in for a ride to the next field station, a rustic ornithologist's cabin, where Dr. Peter Capainolo, senior museum specialist in the Department of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History, had an eviscerated, roughed grouse in hand.

And this so close to my turkey sandwich.

A little something about me? I've liked birds my whole life.

During his residence in Louisville, Alexander Wilson, his great rival in American ornithology, called upon him.

This is Audubon's account of the meeting.

One fair morning I was surprised by the sudden entrance into our counting-room at Louisville of Mr. Alexander Wilson, the celebrated author of the American Ornithology, of whose existence I had never until that moment been apprised.

This happened in March 1810.

How well do I remember him as he then walked up to me! His long, rather hooked nose, the keenness of his eyes, and his prominent cheek-bones, stamped his countenance with a peculiar character.

Again he found himself destitute of means, and compelled to resort to portrait painting.

He went on with his bird-collecting and bird-painting, in the meantime penetrating the swamps and bayous around the city.

At this time he seems to have heard of the publication of Wilson's Ornithology, and tried in vain to get sight of a copy of it.

He's a person who ended up spending his whole life studying birds.

Is that something you'd ever want to do? How do you want birds to be a part of your future? Yeah, ornithology.

You think so? Ornithology is studying birds, yeah? Yeah.

Is that something you're interested in studying?

Yes.