Standardizing the Colors of Birds:
Ridgway’s Color Dictionaries
Robert Ridgway is the forerunner of modern ornithologist. The way he studied birds, by using professional language, classification and accountability made a big leap comparing to those ways of many amateur researchers in the same time period. At the same time, his standardization greatly promoted the professionalization of this field and related field.
The books he private published— Color standards and Color Nomenclature is most widely known because he systematically introduced and studied colors of birds in his book by using accurate color descriptions.
Classification, meant standardization, is crucial measurement of the nature by placing creatures into the right position
Ridgway’s Color Dictionaries
Robert Ridgway is the forerunner of modern ornithologist. The way he studied birds, by using professional language, classification and accountability made a big leap comparing to those ways of many amateur researchers in the same time period. At the same time, his standardization greatly promoted the professionalization of this field and related field.
The books he private published— Color standards and Color Nomenclature is most widely known because he systematically introduced and studied colors of birds in his book by using accurate color descriptions.
Classification, meant standardization, is crucial measurement of the nature by placing creatures into the right position