NHM Oology

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The Natural History Museum collection of birds' eggs & nests. Behind the scenes, specimens, science & research &

Natural History Museum at Tring
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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    9. lis 2015.

    Every day is here as I help ornithologists research our collection of more than a million birds' eggs

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  2. prije 13 sati

    The study of nests is called Nidology! Cataloguing a series of small, delicate, domed Fan-tailed Gerygone nests from New Caledonia. They are beautifully lined with feathers and soft plant materials and one of the nests has been dissected to research the lining

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  3. 3. velj

    Carrion Crow nests are often placed in the crown of trees so accessing nests was fraught with danger in the early 1900s! Research has shown that some corvids choose higher nest locations in more urbanized environments. This may be linked with increased disturbance

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  4. 3. velj

    I have great fondness for old, often overlooked, historical scientific equipment! The two sets of brass & steel divider calipers / compasses are a prime example. They are still very useful for measuring e.g. nest specimens with hard to reach landmarks

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  5. 31. sij

    A Grey Warbler-finch (Certhidea fusca mentalis) nest collected on the 13 Feb 1902 from Genovesa, in the N Galapagos Is by R. H. Beck. Their breeding season begins as soon as the rainy season begins. The nest is built by the male bird alone and made of dry grasses and feathers.

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  6. 30. sij

    Curating a rather lovely Long-tailed Hermit nest collected by the late Alexander Skutch in Costa Rica in 1972. The nest was sent to the noted English ornithologist Barbara Snow. She had already studied Hermit hummingbirds in detail so this was a continuation of her previous work

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  7. 29. sij

    A non-egg related tweet for a change! Years ago I was given this beautiful carved nut. For nearly 20 years it’s sat on my desk. If anyone has any ideas about it’s origin and meaning please let me know?

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  8. 28. sij

    Are you feeling down? I am. One of our more unusual cabinets is Col. Richard Meinertzhagen's collection of down. Down feathers, like these Cinnamon teal collected from a nest in California in 1928, can be used to used as reference in forensic feather identification

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  9. 27. sij

    This haunting image was painted by Edward Wilson from an Emperor Penguin chick found frozen at Cape Crozier during the Discovery Expedition 1901–04. Casualties are not unusual e.g. in 1990s researchers found approximately 1000 dead chicks at Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica

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  10. 24. sij

    One of the most important collections we received in recent years was the Tomkinson Collection. It's an immaculately preserved archive of biological specimens & manuscripts. Some nest photos that Gerald Tomkinson took in the early 1900s can be matched to their corresponding eggs.

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  11. 24. sij

    If you are looking for objects or specimens held by any of the State Russian Museums then this is a good place to start!

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  12. 23. sij

    Looking at a series of Little Stint (Calidris minuta) eggs with a research visitor I discovered a charming little illustration by R. B. Hill of London. These eggs were found at Golchika at the mouth of the Yenisei River, Siberia in July 1895 by Hugh Leybourne Popham

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  13. 22. sij

    Unhatched eggs represent the invisible fraction in two wild bird populations | Biology Letters

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  14. 21. sij

    Great to be hosting an international fact-finding visit from my colleague, Anton Ivanov, Senior Research Scientist at the Timiryazev State Biological Museum in Moscow. Kliment Timiryazev (1843-1920) was a prominent Russian naturalist and a major proponent of Darwinism in Russia.

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  15. 20. sij

    These are three clutches eggs of the same subspecies of Tawny-flanked Prinia (Prinia subflava) from the same locality at the same date. The extreme variation is a direct result of their being a major host of the Cuckoo Finch (Anomalospiza imberbis) and other brood parasites.

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  16. 20. sij

    Alfred Russel Wallace's bird collection only contained a handful of eggs. This is his Red-billed Brush-turkey egg from New Guinea. It was found in 1861 by Wallace's oft overlooked assistant Charles Martin Allen (1839-1892) on his 2nd collecting trip for Wallace.

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  17. 17. sij

    Since 1850 around 15 bird species have become extinct in . These are some of the only known nest and eggs of the South Island Piopio, probably from Stephen’s Island. Nests are intimate records of behavior- in this case sadly a behavior we will not see again

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    In First description of the nest, eggs and nestlings of Scallop-breasted Antpitta Grallaricula loricata.

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    In Notes on bird breeding activity in a lowland forest in south-west Brazilian Amazonia. Incl. Chlorostilbon mellisugus, Thamnophilus aethiops, Phlegopsis nigromaculata and Pachyramphus minor.

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  20. 16. sij

    This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you professionally present poo! Well, Emperor Penguin guano from the heroic age of polar exploration. Soon to be on display

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  21. 14. sij

    Looking at extinct Syrian Ostrich for a research enquiry. They were closely related to the nominate Common Ostrich but their eggs were smoother and less-pitted. This was found in 1928 at Qasr Azraq in present-day eastern Jordan but 40 years after this was found they were extinct

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