page_title: Timeline of ornithology
section_title: 1950–2000
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of ornithology / 1950–2000
caption_attribution_description: Todo lo necesario para poder anillar aves
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of ornithology events:
context_section_description: 1950 – Rocket nets developed by the Wildfowl Trust for catching geese
  1950 – Willi Hennig publishes Grundzüge einer Theorie der phylogenetischen Systematik (Basic outline of a theory of phylogenetic systematics). This work, at first obscure and controversial, founds cladistics and is mainstream by 1980.
  1951–1954 – The six volume Birds of the Soviet Union by GP Dementev and NA Gladkov published
  1953 – Niko Tinbergen publishes The Herring Gull's World
  1953 – Ornithologist Olivier Messiaen composes the orchestral work Réveil des oiseaux—based on birdsong in the Jura Mountains.
  1954 – Protection of Birds Act 1954 in the UK prohibits the collection of birds' eggs
  1954 – The Heinz Sielmann  film Zimmerleute des Waldes (Carpenters of the forest) shown on UK television with the title Woodpecker. It was a huge success.
  1954 – First edition of Avian Physiology published by Paul D. Sturkie. The work related mainly to domestic birds and especially poultry, but later editions of the work, now titled Sturkie's Avian Physiology include studies of wild birds.
  1954 – Arthur Cain refers to the "circular overlaps" of Mayr (1942) as ring species in Animal species and evolution'
  1954 – Richard Meinertzhagen publishes Birds of Arabia based on the work of George Latimer Bates
  1956 – First use of mist nets (invented in Japan) in the UK to trap birds
  1957 – Frances and Frederick Hamerstrom publish Guide to Prairie Chicken Management. The ecological scatter pattern approach has broad significance in bird habitat conservation
  1957 – G. Evelyn Hutchinson develops the niche concept
  1959 – Charles Vaurie publishes The Birds of the Palearctic Fauna: a Systematic Reference
  1959 – Humphrey–Parkes terminology for the description of plumage introduced
  1960 – Max Schönwetter dies. His  monumental Handbuch der Oologie is taken over by Wilhelm Meise
  1961 – Nature photographer Sakae Tamura  publishes Tamagawa no tori, (Birds of River Tama, Tokyo)
  1961 – Eric Hosking publishes Bird Photography as a Hobby, popularising bird photography.
  1961 – William Homan Thorpe publishes Bird-Song. The biology of vocal communication and expression in birds pioneering the use of sound spectrography in bird studies.
  1962 – Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, describing the ecological dangers of pesticides.
  1963 (−1968) David Armitage Bannerman begins publication of  The Birds of the Atlantic Islands
  1964 – The relationship between birds and dinosaurs is re-examined in what becomes known as the dinosaur renaissance
  1967 – Publication of Radar Ornithology by Eric Eastwood
  1967 – Edward O. Wilson and  Robert H. MacArthur publish The Theory of Island Biogeography
  1967 – Birds of prey aviary opens at Zoo de La Flèche
  1968–1972 – First national breeding bird atlas project conducted in Britain and Ireland
  1969 – Robert T. Paine first uses the term keystone species
  1970 – The Atlas of Breeding Birds of the West Midlands by Lord and Munns, based on field work by members of the West Midland Bird Club, published by Collins, is the first to use systematic grid-based method for gathering of information.
  1970 – Derek Ratcliffe discovers changes attributable to pesticides in egg breakage frequency and eggshell thickness in some British birds and publishes a paper so titled in the Journal of Applied Ecology
  1971–1973 – Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke combines  many biological concepts in Die Lebensformen: Grundlagen zu einer universell gültigen biologischen Theorie in English,  Life Forms: The basis for a universally valid biological theory. Birds, and Peruvian or South American birds especially figure prominently.
  1972–75 – Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (1967–1972) is translated into English.
  1975 – Ramsar Convention (The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat) comes into force.
  1975 – Rara aves Elizabeth V. Kozlova publishes The birds of zonal steppes and deserts of Central Asia
  1975 – Victor Hasselblad tests the Hasselblad AB 2000 camera at Nidingen, the only place in Sweden where the black-legged kittiwake nests.
  1976 – Publication of national bi
caption: Bird studies become part of educational programmes in European countries from the 1980s onwards. Here scouts in Spain are being instructed in bird ringing.
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