Elizabeth Vladimirovna Kozlova née Pushkariova (19 August 1892 – 10 February 1975) was a Russian ornithologist who worked on the avifauna of the Tibetan plateau.

Life and career

Elizabeth was the daughter of

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

physician Vladimir Pushkariov born in

Krasnoe Selo Krasnoye Selo (russian: Кра́сное Село́, lit. ''Red village''). Г. П. Смолицкая. "Топонимический словарь Центральной России". "Армада-Пресс", 2002 is a munic ...

. In 1910, at the age of 18, she was in Normandy where she impressed the famous Colonel

Pyotr Kozlov Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov (russian: Пётр Кузьми́ч Козло́в; 3 October 1863 in Dukhovshchina – 26 September 1935 in Peterhof) was a Russian and Soviet traveller and explorer who continued the studies of Nikolai Przhevalsky in ...

, a well-known explorer 29 years her senior. A fan of the explorer Przewalski, he was smitten by the explorer in her and he divorced his wife Nadezhda Stepanovna Kamynina (married 1891) and married Elizabeth in 1912.Department of Ornithology – HistoryMearns & Mearns (1998). The couple lived in Smolny Prospect 6 and began to travel widely together. From 1923–1926 she took part as the professional ornithologist in an expedition, organised by the Russian Geographical Society and led by her husband, to

Mongolia Mongolia; Mongolian script: , , ; lit. "Mongol Nation" or "State of Mongolia" () is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south. It covers an area of , with a population of just 3.3 million, ...

. She returned to Mongolia in 1929 and 1930 to collect and to conduct further bird studies, her research resulting in the publication in 1930 of ''Birds of South-western Transbaikalia, Northern Mongolia and the Central Gobi'', for which she was awarded the Geographical Society's Silver Medal. Kozlova was based at the Department of Ornithology in the Zoological Institute of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across ...

in Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) from 1932 to 1975. During the Second World War, the institute was moved to Dushambe, Tajikistan. During this period Kozlova studied mountain birds including the biology of ''Phasianus colchicus bianchii''. After returning to Leningrad to 1945, she no longer went on field expeditions. She then produced the monographs ''Avifauna of the Tibetan Plateau, its Genetic Relationships and History'' in 1952, and ''The Birds of Zonal Steppes and Deserts of Central Asia'' in 1975. She also published many papers on avian

taxonomy Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification. A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...

and

phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spe ...

as well as writing extensive sections of ''The Birds of the USSR'' (1951–1953) and the series ''Fauna of the USSR''. The

Great Grey Owl The great grey owl (''Strix nebulosa'') (also great gray owl in American English) is a very large owl, documented as the world's largest species of owl by length. It is distributed across the Northern Hemisphere, and it is the only species in th ...

''(Strix nebulosa elisabethae)'' and the

Ortolan bunting The ortolan (''Emberiza hortulana''), also called ortolan bunting, is a Eurasian bird in the bunting family Emberizidae, a passerine family now separated by most modern scholars from the finches, Fringillidae. The genus name ''Emberiza'' is fro ...

''(Emberiza hortulana elisabethae)'' are both name after her.

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