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David Lack was one of the pioneers of radar ornithology in England. Applications. Early radar ornithology mainly focused, due to limitations of the equipment, on the seasonality, timing, intensity, and direction of flocks of birds in migration.
Dr. David Lambert Lack (1910-1973) was a British ornithologist. He was engaged in radar research during the Second World War, using this to make important contributions to the study of bird migration, and served as director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology in Oxford. Details are given in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
David Lack. Unicorn, 2018 - Nature - 274 pages. First published in 1956, Swifts in a Tower still offers astonishing insights into the private lives of swifts, their lifestyles, and the environment they inhabit. Now more than sixty years later, swifts have been studied even more thoroughly, using technology unimaginable in the 1950s.
Tim Birkhead, in his acclaimed book, The Wisdom of Birds, calls Lack the 'hero of modern ornithology.' Who was this influential, yet relatively unknown man? The Life of David Lack, Father of Evolutionary Ecology provides an answer to that question based on Ted Anderson's personal interviews with colleagues, family members and former students as well as material in the extensive Lack Archive at ...
Lack, David Lambert (England 1910-1973) ornithology, ecology, population biology. Despite in some respects remaining an amateur, Lack became the leading British ornithologist of his time, supplementing that level of accomplishment with additional great success as an evolutionary biologist, ecologist, and population biologist.
First published in 1943, and the subject of four editions, a reprint and a reissue, David Lack’s The Life of the Robin represents the very best of accessible natural history writing. The author’s ability to combine the clarity and precision of a scientist with the enthusiasm of someone passionately engaged with his study subject, delivers a book that is full of charm, knowledge and ...
BY DAVID LACK, Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, Oxford i. INTRODUCTION This paper is purely introductory and speculative. Its object is to draw attention to an unexplored field problem in mammals in which the writer became interested through his parallel studies on clutch-size in birds (Lack, I947, I948). Within certain limits,
