Amelia Rudolph Laskey was an American amateur naturalist and ornithologist noted for her contributions to the understanding of bird behavior.
20 Facts About Amelia Laskey
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Amelia Laskey was a regular participant in the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count.
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Amelia Laskey's father owned a construction business, and her mother was an avid gardener.
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Amelia Laskey then became a stenographer at the Oliver Typewriter Company before her marriage to Fredrick C Laskey in 1911.
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Amelia Laskey taught girls at the Sunday school of the Ogden Park Methodist Church.
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At that time, Amelia Laskey began to participate in a local gardening club, having an expansive garden at her home which she named "Blossomdell".
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Amelia Laskey's garden provided natural territory for birds and other wild creatures.
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Amelia Laskey became a member of a local literary society.
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Amelia Laskey then commenced systematic investigations of bird behavior and migration.
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Amelia Laskey continued to use bird-banding methods for the duration of her scientific career.
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Amelia Laskey determined early in her investigations that, while field sparrows are year-round residents of Tennessee, the winter population is different than the summer population of field sparrows.
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Amelia Laskey studied bluebird nesting behavior and was the first to identify a Gambel's sparrow, a rare subspecies in Tennessee.
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Amelia Laskey was particularly noted for her study of mockingbird behavior; Laskey investigated the species' song development, mating behavior, number of mates, their egg clutch sizes, and territorial defense.
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Amelia Laskey began bird banding in 1931 and became a very careful and prolific bander.
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Amelia Laskey contributed to Lowery and Newman's study of nocturnal bird migration through the observation of flocks of birds as their silhouettes crossed the disc of the moon.
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Amelia Laskey found that the bird fatalities could be avoided by use of suitably filtered light.
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Amelia Laskey was a pioneer researcher of migratory bird casualties at television towers.
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Early in her scientific investigations, Amelia Laskey corresponded with professional ornithologist Margaret Morse Nice, who mentored Amelia Laskey and encouraged her to publish in scientific ornithological journals.
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Amelia Laskey was made a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1966, an organization in which she held membership since 1933.
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Amelia Laskey is interred next to her husband at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, Tennessee.