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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ornithologist
noun
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▪ Being primarily an ornithologist, most of these quotations refer to birds, but there are passing descriptive botanical records.
▪ His own father had been an avid ornithologist, so his aunt had told him.
▪ It draws people who come for a fun day out and it provides for the serious ornithologist.
▪ Jane thought she had gained the co-operation of a local ornithologist.
▪ Reasons for many of the statistics are a mystery to ornithologists.
▪ Tendency to migrate was again assessed by three independent ornithologists.
▪ The whole valley round St Nectan's Glen is teeming with bird life, a paradise for a young ornithologist.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ornithologist

Ornithologist \Or`ni*thol"o*gist\, n. [Cf. F. ornithologiste.] One skilled in ornithology; a student of ornithology; one who describes birds.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ornithologist

1670s, from ornithology + -ist.

Wiktionary
ornithologist

n. A person who studies or practices ornithology

WordNet
ornithologist

n. a zoologist who studies birds [syn: bird watcher]

Usage examples of "ornithologist".

They were the local chapter of Amateur Ladies Avifauna Ornithologists.

Ask anyone in the Amateur Ladies Avifauna Ornithologists or the Harmony Garden Club.

D-1- Cooch, a Canadian government ornithologist who specialized in on-site Arctic studies.

It might have been a wind filtering through some far, denuded jungle, or the song of some tropical feathered creature as yet uncatalogued by ornithologists.

Marquis of Sennet is one of the four most skilled ornithologists in Farrland, and a fine and interesting man as well.

One of the foremost ornithologists in the country, Rachel Mendelson was passionate about her science.

The correctness of the above views struck most of the Russian zoologists present, and Syevertsoff, whose work is well known to ornithologists and geographers, supported them and illustrated them by a few more examples.

Two Alpinists of different nationalities who meet in a refuge hut in the Caucasus, or the professor and the peasant ornithologist who stay in the same house, are no more strangers to each other.

My father used to send me out to feed the damn pigeons in his damn pigeon loft all the time, and I want to know who you are going to believe, some stupid internationally famous ornithologist or me, veteran pigeon feeder.

For example, in 1975 a single mink destroyed every nest in a population of Spotted Sandpipers that the ornithologist Lewis Oring was studying in Minnesota.

As spread thighs are to the libertine, flights of migratory birds to the ornithologist, the working part of his tool bit to the production machinist, so was the letter V to young Stencil.