She studied botany and ornithology, and established a salon to support philosophers, including Voltaire.
The first county-wide survey of birds in Devon for 25 years is being compiled for a new ornithology "atlas".
The research was carried out with the help of the Alderney Wildlife Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology.
On Monday, Mr Darling published a Cliffe birdstrike report commissioned by the Central Science Laboratory and the British Trust for Ornithology.
The society has joined forces with the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) to allow people to record sightings and breeding sites through its website.
The British Trust for Ornithology is studying the question around the country: early results suggest that lots of waterfowl are indeed living off pollution.
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Natural England said a survey carried out last year by the British Trust for Ornithology found it had 1.3% of the national population of nightingales.
Viola Ross-Smith, Research Ecologist with the British Trust for Ornithology, said it was difficult to say what would happen following the publication of the research.
Birds in Germany are dying by the millions and Peter Berthold of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, Germany, says that cats are to blame.
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One of the Manx shearwaters recorded in the latest edition of the British Trust for Ornithology's Ringing Report, which summarises data collected in 2003, was given its ring in 1953.
Bird experts at both the National Aviary in Pittsburgh and the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology were at a loss to explain the benefits of nightingale droppings as a skin treatment.
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is among a range of bodies that have submitted research papers to leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, whose findings are based on data collated by volunteers.
Labour's break-up may help reclarify the old hawk-dove ornithology.
And it is precisely the mix of disciplines from architecture and human ecology, to hotel schools and medical engineering, from nanotechnology to ornithology, that provides a hedge against guessing the future incorrectly.
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Greg Budney, audio curator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, a renowned collection of recorded bird song, says he has had requests to use the collection for medical purposes but hasn't heard of bird song being used to fight crime.
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