Ornithology

Ornithology is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds.

People

• Horace Alexander (UK, later USA)
• John James Audubon (USA)
• Alexander Wilson
• James Bond
• John Gooders (UK)
• John Gould (UK)
• Janez Gregori
• George Robert Gray (UK)
• John Edward Gray (UK; brother of the above)
• Edward Grey (Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Baronet, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon; UK)
• Iztok Geister
• Chris Mead (UK)
• Guy Mountfort (UK)
• Max Nicholson (UK)
• Bill Oddie (UK)
• Peter Scott (UK)
• Tony Soper (UK)
• Colonel W. H. Sykes (UK)
• Alexander Wilson (USA)
• Harry Witherby (UK)

Regional associations and societies (UK)

• West Midland Bird Club

National associations and societies

Asia

India

• Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS): Located at Mumbai (formerly Bombay), it is the largest and oldest Non-government Organization in the area of natural history in the Indian subcontinent. Visit http://www.bnhs.org

Europe

Slovenia

• Society for Observation and Study of Birds of Slovenia (Društvo za opazovanje in proučevanje ptic Slovenije) (DOPPS)

United Kingdom

• British Trust of Ornithology (BTO)
• Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

Publications and magazines

• Acrocephalus, DOPPS (Slovenia)
• British Birds (UK)

See Also

• Birdwatching
• Naturalist

Other Meanings

• "Ornithology" is also the name of a song by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, who was known as "Bird".