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Frederick Whitlock
Frederick Bulstrode Lawson Whitlock (1860-1953) was an ornithological writer and oölogist, active in England and across Western Australia. The first years of his life, living in England, he became known as F.B. Whitlock. Later in life, in Australia, his name was mostly written as F.L. Whitlock, or F. Lawson Whitlock.For F.B. Whitlock, see for instance:, and . For F.L. Whitlock, see for instance: and He is noted for his many expeditions to remote regions of Australia, collecting the eggs and nests of birds and recording their behaviour. His notes and specimens were often of little known or new bird populations, generating new names and descriptions. Whitlock's specimens and notes on '' Conopophila whitei'', the grey honeyeater, are regarded as the last new species to be 'discovered' in the state,. Biography Frederick Bulstrode Lawson Whitlock was born 3 June 1860 in Nottingham, England, becoming interested in its natural history at an early age. He became a published or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oölogy
Oology (or oölogy) is a branch of ornithology studying bird eggs, Bird nest, nests and breeding behaviour. The word is derived from the Greek ''oion'', meaning egg. Oology can also refer to the hobby of collecting wild birds' eggs, sometimes called egg collecting, birdnesting or egging, which is now illegal in many jurisdictions. History As a science Oology became increasingly popular in Britain and the United States during the 1800s. Observing birds from afar was difficult because high quality binoculars were not readily available. Thus it was often more practical to shoot the birds or collect their eggs. While the collection of the eggs of wild birds by amateurs was considered a respectable scientific pursuit in the 19th century and early 20th century, from the mid 20th century onwards it was increasingly regarded as being a hobby rather than a scientific discipline. In the 1960s, the naturalist Derek Ratcliffe compared peregrine falcon eggs from historical collections wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Museum Of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. The museum collections contain over 34 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts, as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time. The museum occupies more than . AMNH has a full-time scientific staff of 225, sponsors over 120 special field expeditions each year, and averages about five million visits annually. The AMNH is a private 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission statement is: "To discover, interpret, and disseminate—through scientific research and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Parrot
The night parrot (''Pezoporus occidentalis'') is a small parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. It has also been known as porcupine parrot, nocturnal ground parakeet, midnight cockatoo, solitaire, spinifex parrot and night parakeet. It is one of the most elusive and mysterious birds in the world, with no confirmed sightings of the bird between 1912 and 1979, leading to speculation that it was extinct. Sightings since 1979 have been extremely rare and the bird's population size is unknown, though based on the paucity of records it is thought to number between 50 and 249 mature individuals, and it is classified by the IUCN as an endangered species. A few sightings or recordings of its presence, with varying degrees of certainty, have occurred in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, south-western Queensland, the Lake Eyre basin in South Australia and the Northern Territory. However, some of the evidence produced by wildlife photographer John Young has been called into qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psephotus Narethae
The Naretha bluebonnet (''Northiella narethae'') or Naretha parrot is a bird found in a remote and arid region of Australia. It is one of two species in the genus '' Northiella'', and was first recorded in 1921 in Central Australia. History It was first described by Henry Luke White in 1921 as ''Psephotus narethae''. An associate of White's, the field worker F. Lawson Whitlock, had come across a railway official on the Trans-Australian Railway with a pet parrot that had been caught at Naretha, which corresponded with no known species. Later, White was heading to Western Australia on business and stopped in Zanthus to talk to the official and obtained three skins which he conveyed to the museum in Melbourne. The bluebonnet species was included for some time in the ''Psephotus'' genus with the Naretha, despite the very pronounced physical and behavioural differences to other birds in this genus. One of the biggest differences being that unlike the obvious sexual dimorphism of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue-Bonnet Parrot
The Naretha bluebonnet (''Northiella narethae'') or Naretha parrot is a bird found in a remote and arid region of Australia. It is one of two species in the genus '' Northiella'', and was first recorded in 1921 in Central Australia. History It was first described by Henry Luke White in 1921 as ''Psephotus narethae''. An associate of White's, the field worker F. Lawson Whitlock, had come across a railway official on the Trans-Australian Railway with a pet parrot that had been caught at Naretha, which corresponded with no known species. Later, White was heading to Western Australia on business and stopped in Zanthus to talk to the official and obtained three skins which he conveyed to the museum in Melbourne. The bluebonnet species was included for some time in the ''Psephotus'' genus with the Naretha, despite the very pronounced physical and behavioural differences to other birds in this genus. One of the biggest differences being that unlike the obvious sexual dimorphism of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Way
Lake Way is a dry saline lake located in the Mid West region of Western Australia, approximately south of Wiluna. It also gives its name to a nearby cattle station, the Lake Way Station. Description The lake, dry except during exceptional floods such as occurred in 1900, 1942, 1963, repeatedly from 1992 to 2001 and in 2006, runs roughly parallel to the Leinster-Wiluna road, which is part of the Goldfields Highway. The lake is the site of one of the most advanced uranium mining projects in Western Australia, the Centipede–Lake Way project, which is pursued by Toro Energy. Toro Energy has acquired the Lake Maitland uranium project and in 2010 proposed to operate both projects. Mining Gold The lake has been the site of an open-pit gold mining operation, which was part of the Wiluna Gold Mine. The ''Williamson'' pit, located within the lake and accessed through a causeway, was mined from 2005 to 2007, but the pit only contained low grade ore of approximately 1.75 g/t. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Museum
The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the ''Museum Act 1969''. The museum has six main sites. The state museum, now known as WA Museum Boola Bardip, officially re-opened on 21 November 2020 in the Perth Cultural Centre. The other sites are: the WA Maritime Museum and WA Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle, the Museum of the Great Southern in Albany, the Museum of Geraldton in Geraldton, and the Museum of the Goldfields in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. History Established in 1891 in the Old Perth Gaol, it was known as the Geological Museum and consisted of geological collections. In 1892, ethnological and biological exhibits were added, and in 1897, the museum officially became the Western Australian Museum and Art Gallery. The museum employed collectors to obtain series of specimens; Tunney ventured across the state from 1895 to 1909 obtaining animals and, later, the tools and artefacts of the indigenous inhabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J S Battye Library
The J S Battye Library (more properly known as the J. S. Battye Library of West Australian History) is an arm of the State Library of Western Australia. It stores much of the state's historical records and original publications including books, newspapers, periodicals, maps, and ephemera, as well as oral history tapes, photographs and artworks, films and video, and non-government records which are kept in the library's Private Archives collection. The Library provides a range of services, including reference, copying, and genealogical services, as well as consultancy and reader education. Founder The Library is named after Dr. James Sykes Battye, the first State Librarian, who began the collection in the early 1900s. It was established in December 1956. Librarians Mollie Lukis and Margaret Medcalf were successors to Battye as Battye librarians, and their long service to the Library was an important part of the library's development. Location The Battye Library is housed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert's Honeyeater
Gilbert's honeyeater (''Melithreptus chloropsis''), also known as the Swan River honeyeater or western white-naped honeyeater, is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family Meliphagidae native to southwestern Australia. A mid-sized honeyeater, it is olive-green above and white below, with a black head, nape and throat and a white patch over the eye and a white crescent-shaped patch on the nape. The bill is brownish-black and the eyes a dull red. The sexes have similar plumage. Taxonomy Gilbert's honeyeater was originally described by John Gould in 1848, who gave it the species epithet ''chloropsis'' from the Ancient Greek terms ''chloros'' 'green-yellow' and ''opsis'' 'eye'. Gregory Mathews coined the name ''Melithreptus whitlocki'' in 1909 from a specimen collected by a Mr F. L. Whitlock from Wilson Inlet. Mathews stated that it was distinct due to having a white eye-ring year-round. This is no longer recognised as a distinguishing feature. Treated as a subspecies of the white- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Climacteris Melanurus
The black-tailed treecreeper (''Climacteris melanurus'') is a species of bird in the family Climacteridae. It is endemic to north and northwestern Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Description Both genders are dark brown and black-tailed. The male has a black throat while the female has a white throat. References black-tailed treecreeper Birds of the Northern Territory Birds of Western Australia Endemic birds of Australia black-tailed treecreeper The black-tailed treecreeper (''Climacteris melanurus'') is a species of bird in the family Climacteridae. It is endemic to north and northwestern Australia. Its natural habitats are temperate forest A forest is an area of land dominate ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{passeri-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Climacteris
''Climacteris'' is a genus of bird in the family Climacteridae. These birds and the other members of the family, genus '' Cormobates'', are similar to Northern Hemisphere creepers, Certhiidae, in climbing helically up tree trunks looking for insect food. Differences from ''Cormobates'' are *''Climacteris'' species have black, slightly downcurved bills. *They have a rusty chest stripe in the female. (In ''Cormobates'' the female is marked on the face.) *They have simple vocal repertoires that are the same for both sexes. *They lay heavily marked pinkish eggs (Simpson and Day 1999). *They are cooperative breeders; male offspring of previous broods and sometimes other individuals help breeding pairs (Doerr 2003). It contains the following species: The Australian author G. M. Mathews Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England. Life He was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitlocka
''Climacteris'' is a genus of bird in the family Climacteridae. These birds and the other members of the family, genus ''Cormobates'', are similar to Northern Hemisphere creepers, Certhiidae, in climbing helically up tree trunks looking for insect food. Differences from ''Cormobates'' are *''Climacteris'' species have black, slightly downcurved bills. *They have a rusty chest stripe in the female. (In ''Cormobates'' the female is marked on the face.) *They have simple vocal repertoires that are the same for both sexes. *They lay heavily marked pinkish eggs (Simpson and Day 1999). *They are cooperative breeders; male offspring of previous broods and sometimes other individuals help breeding pairs (Doerr 2003). It contains the following species: The Australian author G. M. Mathews published new generic names in 1912, based on characteristics that distinguished two species from this genus, * ''Whitlocka'', to describe the black-tailed northwestern species, ''Climacteris melanur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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