LEARN Cornell University BIOLOGY AT HOME Cornell Laboratory oi University's Laboratory of Ornithology offers a Home A Labor oi Love Study Course in Bird Biology Enrich your understanding of the world around you with this home By Sheldon Dingle study course in ornithology. One of the world's leading centers for the Norco, California study of birdlife offers you nine lessons written by prominent American ornithologists and lavishly illustrated by well-known bird artists and photographers. For information on how you can enroll, please fill in the coupon and send it to: Seminars in Ornithology Laboratory of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road thaca, New York 14850 Several centunes ago John Donne ting, are buildings housing offices, ~ Tel: (607) 256-5056 sought to, "find what windserves to ad­ photographic rooms, a sound laboratory, ~~ . vance an honest minde. " Today, in the a reference library, and an auditorium. YES. Please send me information same spirit, I feel that most of the There are stations just out­ on the Bird Biology Course. A.F.A. members are honest, intelligent, side the windows and the bird sounds are

Name and have inquiring minds-particularly brought into the building by means of a Address _ regarding and aviculture. They ac­ public address system with microphones tively seek out "what wind," so to located near the feeders. The walls of the City State __ Zip __ rooms are hung with many of the world's IB speak, serves to advance a better understanding of their favorite subject. finest bird paintings. In a separate facili­ In these happy days of enlightenment ty a short distance off is the peregrine there are, fortunately, many ways one falcon breeding operation pioneered and can gain knowledge. One of the best and run so successfully by Dr. Tom Cade. It The Village easiest ways is to read. The A.F.A.'s is not open to the public. Watchbird is, of course, devoted Aviaries specifically to aviculture but there are other periodicals that embrace rather dif­ ferent but very important areas of avian interest. One such magazine is The Liv­ ing Bird Quarterly. It is a new publica­ tion out of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. You should know something of the Cornell Lab. It is a world center for the study and cultural appreciation of birds. The Lab is situated on the 180 acre Sap­ sucker Woods Sanctuary about three miles from the main Cornell campus at Babe and Bill Mackey Ithaca in the hean of the beautiful Finger Lakes region of New York State. • Parakeets The sanctuary is an especially enticing Lovebirds • Eng. Budgies place for ornithological studies because • of its rich natural woodland features that specializing in serve as home or a stopping-over place Grass keets • Lories for many native birds. There is a ten acre pond with a variety of wild waterfowl, We buy and sell and the rich flora and fauna is left un­ wholesale disturbed in a natural state of boreal But one of the most important aspects P.O. Box 2467 beauty. For the visitors there are four of the Laboratory of Ornithology is the Vista, California 92083 miles of trails winding through the sanc­ philosophy of its directors and staff. tuary from which many birds can be Unlike many organizations, the Lab at (619) 727-0898 observed. Cornell recognizes, enhances even, the Low key. blending into the natural set- soul satisfying interaction between birds 36 and humans. To the people at the Lab birds are not the untouchable, sacrosanct relics of nature only to be viewed at a distance. The Laboratory is not a We cater to breeders museum, it is, indeed, a labor-atory where humans actually labor with birds. New birds arrive weekly. Dr. Cade, for instance, is a falconer who keeps and flies his birds-an aviculturist if you will. The late Dr. Keeton kept P.A~~ many flights ofpigeons which he used in his navigation studies. The people at Subsidiary of Birds & Research Cornell do not stand by wringing their BUY SELL TRADE hands and lamenting at the extinction of this bird or that. They roll up their sleeves and take a hand in the work that Toucans • Amazons must be done to help out birds that are Grass Parakeets in trouble. The Laboratory staff also recognizes Macaws that millions of ordinary people love Medium Sulphur, Triton Specials - Hyacinths, Scarlets birds and know something about them. The Cornell people are not the holier­ than-thou ornithologists who refuse to If you don't see your preference listed, give us a call - many other birds available. speak to you unless you have a Ph.D. There are many programs designed to Write or call for up-la-date bird and price list, and monthly specials teach the amateur ornithologist more Breeding age adults and babies available. about birds and, significantly, the Consultations on breeding, and building aviaries. Laboratory listens to knowledgeable amateurs and accepts volunteer assis­ JOE EMGE tance in many phases of Laboratory 1552 E. CONCORD, ORANGE, CA 92667 activity. (714) 637·5636 The Laboratory's main objective is to NO BIRDS ON THE PREMISES. CALL FOR APPOINTMENT. promote the science of ornithology through education, research, and cultural enrichment, serving both the professional and the amateur. Projects underway now include a colonial bird ") A better way . .. to cage your birds register; an expanding library of natural sounds; the building up of the ornitho­ Indoors and out. logical library; gathering a collection of color transparencies of birds from throughout the world that can be used by professionals, students, and ama­ teurs; to continue the captive breeding program aimed at developing a self­ sustaining population of peregrine falcons in the wild. 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