Claude Henry Grant
Captain Claude Henry Baxter Grant (24 December 1878 – 9 January 1958) was an English ornithologist and military officer who collected birds in Africa and later worked at the bird room of the British Museum of Natural History (now the Natural History Museum). Grant was born in London to Henry and Clare Elizabeth Grant. He was educated at Westbourne Schools, Latimer Grammar School, and at Blackers. where he met where he came to meet Reverend Theodore Wood. He then went to London University studying field surveying and worked with Edward Ayearst Reeves at the Royal Geographical Society. He trained in taxidermy and worked at the Natural History Museum and in 1899 he joined the Imperial Yeomanry for the Boer War. Here, between the hostilities, he made a collection of birds and mammals at Deelfontein Deelfontein is a village in the Great Karoo, Northern Cape, region of South Africa on the route of the Pretoria to Cape Town railway. It primarily developed to service the railway d ...
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Ornithologist
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds. It has also been an area with a large contribution made by amateurs in terms of time, resources, and financial support. Studies on birds have helped develop key concepts in biology including evolution, behaviour and ecology such as the definition of species, the process of speciation, instinct, learning, ecological niches, guilds, island biogeography, phylogeography, and conservation. While early ornithology was principally concerned with descriptions and distributions of species, ornithologists today seek answers to very specific questions, often using birds as models to test hypotheses or predictions based on theories. Most modern biological theories apply across life forms, and the number of scientists who i ...
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