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Katharine (Clark) Harding Day
Katharine "Kitty" Harding Day (''née'' Clark; February 10, 1891 – March 27, 1975) was an American ornithologist from Boston. She was one of the first American women to use Bird ringing, bird banding to study the nesting behavior of native American birds. Her pioneer studies of the nesting behavior of the veery (''Catharus fuscescens'') foreshadowed the discovery of cooperative parental care in that species nearly a century later. She conducted one of the first studies of the nesting biology of the black-throated blue warbler (''Setophaga caerulescens''). Her many contributions to ''Life Histories of North American Birds'' (1919– 1968), edited by Arthur Cleveland Bent, were invariably credited under the name "Mrs. Richard B. Harding". She is the namesake of a sphinx moth, ''Xylophanes katharinae'', which was described by her father in 1931: "I have given this form the name [''Xylophanes''] ''katharinae'' in honor of my daughter Mrs. Richard B. Harding, because of her keen inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
