Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko (11 October 1896 – 26 May 1972) was a
Soviet 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 ...
of
Ukrainian
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origin who carried out extensive
zoogeographic
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studies on the birds of the northern and north-eastern
Palaearctic realm. He was born in
Smila, Ukraine
Smila ( uk, Сміла ) is a city located on Dnieper Upland near the Tyasmyn River, in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast of Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Smila urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.
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, though most of his career was spent working in, and conducting expeditions from, the ornithological department of the Zoological Institute of the
Soviet Academy of Sciences in
Leningrad.
His publications include:
* 1939, 1941 – ''Fauna of the Anadyr area''
* 1954, 1960 – ''The birds of the USSR''
* 1972–1973 – ''The birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangel Island''
* 1973 – ''Fauna of birds of non-polar parts of the Northern Urals''
* 1975 – ''The birds of zonal steppes and deserts of Central Asia''
References
Further reading
* Palmer R.S. 1973. Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko. Auk 90: 487.
1896 births
1972 deaths
Soviet zoologists
Ukrainian ornithologists
People from Smila
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