According to Konrad Lorenz, Charles Otis Whitman and Oskar Heinroth, the first American and the other German, were two significant precursors of the modern study of animal behaviour. Active in the early 1900s, they were interested in birds. While Whitman wrote a monumental work on the pigeon (Columba livia), ducks […]
Emilio Baldaccini
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The Hoopoe (Upupa epops), a bird that reaches our country in Spring to nest and raise its offspring before returning south to the Sahara desert, has been remembered not only in the verses of Foscolo and Montale but also in one of our articles written in November 2022 by Emilio […]