Roxie Collie Laybourne

Why Is Roxie Collie Laybourne Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Roxie Collie Simpson Laybourne was an American ornithologist born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She pioneered the study of forensic ornithology while at the National Museum of Natural History; these forensic techniques for identifying species of birds involved in bird strikes led to aircraft safety improvements.

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Roxie Collie Laybourne's Published Works

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Published Papers

Feather in amber is earliest New World fossil of Picidae (1994) (34)
Plumage sequence and taxonomy of Laysan and Nihoa finches (1977) (20)
PREPARATION OF AVIAN MATERIAL RECOVERED FROM PELLETS AND AS PREY REMAINS (1994) (19)
The red-whiskered bulbul in Florida (1968) (14)
Inferences about Population Movements of Red-winged Blackbirds from Morphological Data (1984) (14)
Basic Technique for Preparation of down for Examination with the Scanning Electron Microscope (1992) (13)
Bilateral Gynandrism in an Evening Grosbeak (1967) (10)
A DIFFERENCE IN PREY SELECTION BY ADULT AND IMMATURE PEREGRINE FALCONS DURING AUTUMN MIGRATION (2011) (9)
Territorial intrusions in the House Wren Troglodytes aedon : Evidence for the sperm competition hypothesis (2003) (6)
First record of whiskered tern from the tropical Pacific (1983) (5)
The development and application of strip mining to previously mined underground coal workings (1990) (3)
Status of the common tern (Sterna hirundo) in the tropical Pacific, with a note on records of the black-naped tern (Sterna sumatrana) in Hawaii (1983) (2)
Record Unit 9610 Oral history interviews with Roxie Collie Simpson Laybourne, 2001 (2001) (0)
Subspecific identification of song sparrows collected at Raleigh, N.C.,in summer of 1967 (1974) (0)
Record Unit 9610 Roxie C. Laybourne Interviews, 2001 (2001) (0)