Eduard Daniël van Oort (31 October 1876 in Barneveld,

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– 21 September 1933 in

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) was a Dutch

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 th ...

. Oort was in charge of the bird collections at the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in

; in 1915 he was made Director of this museum, a position which he held until his death. He was the author of ''Ornithologia Neerlandica, de vogels van Nederland'' (1922-1935), with plates by Marinus Adrianus Koekkoek (1873-1944). These plates were later licensed by

Harry Witherby Harry Forbes Witherby, MBE, FZS, MBOU (7 October 1873 – 11 December 1943) was a noted British ornithologist, author, publisher and founding editor (in 1907) of the magazine ''British Birds''. Personal life Harry was the second surviving so ...

for use in '' The Handbook of British Birds'' (1938-1941). A

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

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gecko Geckos are small, mostly carnivorous lizards that have a wide distribution, found on every continent except Antarctica. Belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, geckos are found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from . Geckos ar ...

, '' Lepidodactylus oortii'', is named in his honor.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Oort", p. 195).

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Obituary
*Bayer, Ch. (1933). "In Memoriam E.D. van Oort 1876—1933". ''

Zoologische Mededelingen ''Zoologische Mededelingen'' was a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal publishing papers and monographs on animal systematics. The publisher was the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis in the Netherlands. The first issue appeared ...

, Rijks Museum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden'' 16: 263–265
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1876 births 1933 deaths People from Barneveld Dutch ornithologists Dutch curators {{ornithologist-stub