UPDATE: I've been informed that I'll need to delete the Avian Biology pages from my university's server by mid-August 2022. I'm currently looking for a new site for these pages. If anyone has suggestions, please let me know. Also, I'm an ornithologist, not a web designer so if anyone is up to speed on how to efficiently transfer websites to a new host, feel free to get in touch with me at gary.ritchison@eku.edu. Thanks!!

 

Avian Biology:
Everything you wanted to know about birds . . . and more

by Gary Ritchison
(gary.ritchison@eku.edu)
https://twitter.com/GaryRitchison

Department of Biological Sciences
Eastern Kentucky University


Summaries of Some Published Papers in Avian Biology

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I - Introduction to Birds

II - Feather Evolution

III - Bird Flight  I

IV - Bird Flight II and Other Means of Locomotion

V - The Geography of Birds I

VI - The Geography of Birds II

VII - Migration

VIII - Navigation and Orientation

IX - Avian Integument

X - Digestive System: Food & Feeding Habits

XI - Urinary System, Salt Glands, & Osmoregulation

XII - Circulatory System

XIII - Respiratory System

XIV - Energy Balance & Thermoregulation

XV - Nervous System: Brain & Senses I

XVI - Nervous System: Brain & Senses II

XVII - Vocal Communication

XVIII - Territorial & Colonial Behavior

XIX - Bird Groups

XX - Mating Systems

XXI - Avian Reproduction I: Anatomy & the Bird Egg

XXII - Avian Reproduction II: Nests

XXIII - Avian Reproduction III: Clutch Size, Incubation, & Hatching

XXIV - Parental Care

XXV - Dispersal

 

Avian Anatomy and Taxonomy:

External morphology & topography
Feathers & feather tracts
External structural characteristics
Skeleton
Musculature & internal anatomy
Egg structure and development
Taxonomic categories & keys
Identification techniques & Avian Taxonomy

 

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Songs & calls of more than 550 birds

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