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Theodore Albert "Ted" Parker III (April 1, 1953 – August 3, 1993) was an American ornithologist who specialized in the Neotropics. He "was widely considered the finest field birder / ornithologist that the world had ever seen."
Parker grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and became interested in birdwatching at an early age. In 1971 he broke the North American Big Year record (seeing more species of birds in a year than anyone before). In that year he enrolled at the University of Arizona and began to accompany ornithological expeditions to South America, particularly with Louisiana State University. He moved to Baton Rouge and was associated with LSU for the rest of his life (becoming a fanatical supporter of LSU basketball). He supported himself by leading birding tours, especially for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, until the last few years of his life, when he went to work for Conservation International.
According to Zimmer (1993), "Voice, microhabitat, and behavior are the keys [to identification] in neotropical forests, and Ted was not only the first to recognize this (his seminal paper on foliage-gleaner identification that appeared in the April 1979 issue of Continental Birdlife should be required reading for all students of tropical birding), but also honed his discrimination of these essential cues to a finer degree than anyone else." Zimmer adds that as knowledge of these matters was limited, "[m]any field problems… took weeks of patient effort for Ted to work out for himself."
Ted Parker (7 November 1903 – 16 May 1929) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
He lost both of his legs to a circular saw in a construction site accident at Mitta Junction in 1929 and died of his injuries at Albury District Hospital.
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Plot: The stagecoaches on the line owned by Colonel Parker are being robbed and the drivers killed, so The Duchess sends for Red Ryder. Businessman Ernest Murphy and his gang of outlaws that include the whistling Chopin, gets hold of the letter that the Duchess wrote Red and hires the Idaho Kid to waylay him. But Red gets the drop on Idaho instead, and then poses as him and joins the gang. Murphy, realizing that Red isn't the man he hired, frames Red for stealing an ore shipment. Little Beaver helps Red escape from the Sheriff and his posse, and they set about to track down the gang.
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Plot: Joan Wingate's wealthy father doesn't want his daughter to go into show business. As they vacation in the west she gets a job with Dan Tyler's show and uses Wingate money to keep him afloat. Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers they try to keep her father away from the show. But he eventually finds out and decides they will return east.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, ambition, b-movie, b-western, brother, cattleman, corral, cowhandScott Robinson from The Florida Museum of Natural History at The University of Florida shares his expertise of bird watching with LSU students. LSU ornithologists are the world’s experts on birds from several Latin American regions, including Peru and Bolivia, which together contain more species of birds than any other similar-sized region in the world. LSU is the only university museum in the world that has conducted ornithological field research in South America every year since 1962.
Renowned conservationist and field ornithologist Theodore "Ted" A. Parker III was already considered a legend in ornithology before his untimely death in 1993 at 40 years old. Referred to as "the Mozart of ornithology," Parker broke the record for birds seen in one year in the United States at just 18 years old. His "Parker Inventory" technique, which included extensively recording bird calls before and after dawn to capture the voices of birds hidden from sight, revolutionized bird survey work in the Neotropics.
Things I wish I had known when I was in High School Casey Neistat is a New York-based filmmaker. He is the writer, editor, and star of the series The Neistat Brothers on HBO and won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards for producing the film Daddy Long Legs. His main body of work consists of dozens of short films he has released exclusively on the Internet, including regular contributions to the New York Times critically acclaimed Op-Doc series. His online films have been viewed over 100,000,000 times in the last 3 years. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
Ted Parker is an activist and veteran of the 1977 Battle of Lewisham. We interviewed him as part of our oral history project 'East London Against Racism.' For more information about Eastside Community Heritage visit www.hidden-histories.org.uk
BEEF Magazine has selected Ted Parker, of Seminary, Mississippi, as the 2018 winner of the National Stocker Award. Go to this website for more information: www.BEEFMagazine.com
BASKETBALL HIGHLIGHTS OF 1 OF ASHLAND HIGH SCHOOL'S BEST PLAYERS. 2010-2011. HE IS A COLLEGE LEVEL PLAYER WITH A GREAT ATTITUDE, WORK ETHIC, AND A 3.7 GPA.
Ted Parker tells us about his experience using Forget Me Not Life Stories to share his memories.
TROY HALVERSON: ATLWood actor/filmmaker Troy Halverson co-starred in ATTACK OF THE MORNINGSIDE MONSTER (2014) and plays lead roles in MR. LOCKJAW (2015) and HORROR HOTEL: THE WEBSERIES. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3951511/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1 Edited by Don Weir of Devil Cat Art, LLC. http://www.devilcat.tv/ Created and hosted by Ted Parker.
AT LAST! Every reason in the world to make your next film/TV project supercool by casting Ted is finally here! As anyone who's seen his work before can confirm, Ted can play everything from the lovable, quirky eccentric to the neurotic and sinister sociopath! Behold the brilliant weirdness, creepiness, and unforgettable genius of Ted in TED PARKER: THE ACTOR'S REEL!
Theodore Albert "Ted" Parker III (April 1, 1953 – August 3, 1993) was an American ornithologist who specialized in the Neotropics. He "was widely considered the finest field birder / ornithologist that the world had ever seen."
Parker grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and became interested in birdwatching at an early age. In 1971 he broke the North American Big Year record (seeing more species of birds in a year than anyone before). In that year he enrolled at the University of Arizona and began to accompany ornithological expeditions to South America, particularly with Louisiana State University. He moved to Baton Rouge and was associated with LSU for the rest of his life (becoming a fanatical supporter of LSU basketball). He supported himself by leading birding tours, especially for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, until the last few years of his life, when he went to work for Conservation International.
According to Zimmer (1993), "Voice, microhabitat, and behavior are the keys [to identification] in neotropical forests, and Ted was not only the first to recognize this (his seminal paper on foliage-gleaner identification that appeared in the April 1979 issue of Continental Birdlife should be required reading for all students of tropical birding), but also honed his discrimination of these essential cues to a finer degree than anyone else." Zimmer adds that as knowledge of these matters was limited, "[m]any field problems… took weeks of patient effort for Ted to work out for himself."