Summary
W. L. McAtee made a significant contribution to ornithology by reporting on the food habits of individual bird species. From before he even graduated from the University of Indiana in 1904, he spent his entire career working for the U.S. Division of Biological Survey -- today the Biology Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey.
McAtee will always be known as the most famous economic ornithologist in the world. No one will ever be able to surpass his accomplishments, because he lived at a time when he could study what birds ate by shooting them and examining their stomach contents. Consider examples of the numbers of birds he and his associates collected and examined: 928 Eastern meadowlarks, 1,422 robins and 417 pine grosbeaks.See the full content of this document
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Study of Birds' Diet Yields a Wealth of Information
Many readers will consider the shooting of birds a terrible way to carry out such an investigation, but they should c...
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