__NOTOC__ This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also :Ornithologists.

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* John Abbot – US * Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US *

William Louis Abbott William Louis Abbott (23 February 1860 – 2 April 1936) was an American medical doctor, explorer, ornithologist and field naturalist. He compiled prodigious collections of biological specimens and ethnological artefacts from around the world, ...

– US *

Joseph H. Acklen Joseph Hayes Acklen (May 20, 1850 – September 28, 1938) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Louisiana from 1878 to 1881. Biography Early life Joseph Hayes Acklen was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Adelicia ...

– US *

Humayun Abdulali Humayun Abdulali (19 May 1914, Kobe, Japan - 3 June 2001, Mumbai, India) was an Indian ornithologist and biologist who was also a cousin of the "birdman of India", Salim Ali (ornithologist), Salim Ali. Like other naturalists of his period, he to ...

– India *

Jon E. Ahlquist Jon Edward Ahlquist (27 July 1944 –7 May 2020Jon Edw ...

– US *

Prince Akishino is the younger brother and heir presumptive of Emperor Naruhito of Japan and the younger son of Emperor emeritus Akihito and Empress emerita Michiko. Since his marriage in June 1990, he has had the title and has headed his own branch of the im ...

(皇嗣秋筱宮文仁親王) – Japan * Luigi d'Albertis – Italy *

John Warren Aldrich John Warren Aldrich (February 23, 1906 – May 3, 1995) was an American ornithologist. Biography Aldrich was born on February 23, 1906, in Providence, Rhode Island. He went to Providence public schools, and got a BS degree in biology from Brown ...

– US *

Boyd Alexander Lieutenant Boyd Alexander (16 January 1873 – 2 April 1910) was an English officer in the British Army, as well as an explorer and ornithologist. Early life Boyd was the oldest son (with a twin brother) of Lt Colonel Boyd Francis Alexander. ...

– England *

Christopher James Alexander Christopher James Alexander (24 March 1887 – 5 October 1917) was an English ornithologist. He was the son of Joseph Gundry Alexander and the brother of ornithologists Wilfred Backhouse Alexander and Horace Gundry Alexander. Early life Ale ...

– England *

Horace Alexander Horace Gundry Alexander (18 April 1889 – 30 September 1989) was an English Quaker teacher, writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander (1848–1918), two other sons being the ornithologist ...

– England, US *

Wilfred Backhouse Alexander Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander (4 February 1885 – 18 December 1965) was an England, English ornithologist and entomologist. He was a brother of Horace Alexander and Christopher James Alexander. Alexander was born at Croydon in Surrey, England in ...

– England * Salim Ali – India * Arthur Augustus Allen – US *

Elsa Guerdrum Allen Elsa Guerdrum Allen (1888, Washington, D.C. – 29 January 1969, Utica, New York) was an American ornithologist, lecturer, author and historian of ornithology, known for her 1951 book ''The history of American ornithology before Audubon''. Elsa G ...

– US * Glover Morrill Allen – US * Joel Asaph Allen – US *

Robert Porter Allen Robert Porter Allen (24 April 1905 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania – 28 June 1963) was an American ornithologist and environmentalist. He achieved worldwide attention for his rescue operations of the whooping crane (''Grus Americana'') in th ...

– US * György Almásy – Hungary/Austria *

Bernard Altum Johann Bernard Theodor Altum (31 January 1824, Münster, Province of Westphalia – 1 February 1900, Eberswalde) was a German Catholic priest, zoologist, and forest scientist who also engaged in popularizing his religiously grounded understanding ...

– Germany * Dean Amadon – US *

George W. Archibald George William Archibald (born 13 July 1946) is the co-founder of the International Crane Foundation and was the inaugural winnerBergquist, Lee (22 August 2006) "Crane conservationist to receive $100,000 prize" ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'' (Wisco ...

– Canada/US * John Ash – England *

Edwin Ashby Edwin Ashby (2 November 1861 – 8 January 1941) was an Adelaide based Australian property developer and a noted malacologist interested in chitonsWinckworth R. (1942). "Obituary. Edwin Ashby, 1861-1941". ''Proceedings of the Malacological Society ...

– Australia *

Henry Philemon Attwater Henry Philemon Attwater (28 April 1854, Brighton – 25 September 1931, Houston) was a British-Canadian-American naturalist and conservationist. Educated at St Nicholas Episcopal College in Shoreham, West Sussex, Attwater emigrated in 1873 from ...

– England/Canada/US *

Yves Aubry Yves Aubry is a Canadian ornithologist. He graduated from Université Laval. He is co-editor of the ornithology reference, ''"L'Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs du Québec méridional"'', published in 1995. He is a member of Centre d'Étude de la For ...

– Canada * Jean Victoire Audouin – France *

John James Audubon John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoria ...

– France/US *

Oliver L. Austin Oliver Luther Austin Jr. (May 24, 1903 – December 31, 1988) was an ornithologist who wrote the definitive study ''Birds of the World,'' eventually published in seven languages. At various times he was Director of the Austin Ornithological Resear ...

– US

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* Walther Bacmeister – Germany *

Alfred Marshall Bailey Alfred Marshall Bailey (February 18, 1894 – February 25, 1978) was an American ornithology, ornithologist who was associated with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Scie ...

– US * Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey – US *

Jean-Baptiste Bailly Jean-Baptiste Bailly (23 August 1822, Chambéry – 20 December 1880 Chambéry) was a French ornithologist. Bailly was one of the founders of the Société d’histoire naturelle de Savoie in 1844 and of the Museum of Natural History in Chambé ...

– France *

Spencer Fullerton Baird Spencer Fullerton Baird (; February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, Herpetology, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He ...

– US *

E. C. Stuart Baker Edward Charles Stuart Baker CIE OBE FZS FLS (1864 – 16 April 1944) was a British ornithologist and police officer. He catalogued the birds of India and produced the second edition of the ''Fauna of British India'' which included the introd ...

– England *

Russell Balda Dr Russell P. Balda is an American ornithologist notable for his studies of the behavioral ecology of the pinyon jay as well as for his work on spatial cognition in seed-caching birds. He was the 1998 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society� ...

– US *

August Carl Eduard Baldamus August Carl Eduard Baldamus (April 18, 1812 in Giersleben, Saxony-Anhalt – October 30, 1893 in Coburg) was a German ornithologist. August Baldamus studied theology at the University of Berlin. In 1859 he became professor at the Gymnasium in ...

– Germany *

Jean-Christophe Balouet Jean-Christophe Balouet (12 November 1956 − 31 March 2021) was a French palaeontologist. He has collaborated extensively with Storrs Olson of the Smithsonian Institution on palaeornithological research on the extinct birds of New Caledonia in ...

– France * Vladimir Balthasar – Czech Republic * Betsy Bang – US *

Outram Bangs Outram Bangs (January 12, 1863 – September 22, 1932) was an American zoologist. Biography Bangs was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, as the second son of Edward and Annie Outram (Hodgkinson) Bangs. He studied at Harvard from 1880 to 1884, and be ...

– US *

Richard C. Banks Richard Charles Banks (April 19, 1931 – October 24, 2021) was an American author, ornithologist and Emeritus Research Zoologist on staff with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center run by the U.S. Geological Survey and stationed at the Smithso ...

– US * David Armitage Bannerman – UK *

Phyllis Barclay-Smith Ida Phyllis Barclay-Smith (18 May 1902 – 2 January 1980) was a British ornithologist and editor of the ''Avicultural Magazine''. She led the International Council of Bird Preservation. In 1958, she became the first woman to receive an MB ...

– UK *

Pierre Barrère Pierre Barrère (1690, Perpignan – 1755, Perpignan) was a French physician and naturalist. Pierre Barrère practised in Perpignan from 1717. In 1722, he voyaged to Cayenne where he stayed for five years. Back in Perpignan, he became profess ...

– France * Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland *

Walter B. Barrows Walter Bradford Barrows (January 10, 1855 - February 26, 1923) was an American naturalist who wrote books about birds and published articles in scientific journals. Early career After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1876, ...

– US *

George A. Bartholomew George Adelbert "Bart" Bartholomew (June 1, 1919 – October 2, 2006) was an American biologist. He was born in Independence, Missouri and earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. During the Second World War ...

– US *

William Bartram William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American botanist, ornithologist, natural historian and explorer. Bartram was the author of an acclaimed book, now known by the shortened title ''Bartram's Travels'', which chronicled ...

– US *

Charles Foster Batchelder Charles Foster Batchelder (July 20, 1856 – November 7, 1954) was an American ornithologist and naturalist. He was an early member and President of the American Ornithologists' Union, and of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. He also edited ''The A ...

– US * George Latimer Bates – US *

E. V. Baxter Evelyn Vida Baxter LLD FRSE FLS FZS MBE (29 March 1879 - 1 October 1959) was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist, and the first woman to receive Union Medal of the British Ornithological Union. Life Baxter was born on 29 March 1879 to J ...

– Scotland *

Robert Cecil Beavan Captain Robert Cecil Beavan (1841 – 3 February 1870), corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London, served in India with the Bengal Staff Corps for 10 years. During his short life he collected specimens of birds and eggs at variou ...

– England *

Johann Matthäus Bechstein Johann Matthäus Bechstein (11 July 1757 – 23 February 1822) was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. In Great Britain, he was known for his treatise on singing birds (''Naturgeschichte der Stubenvög ...

– Germany *

Rollo Beck Rollo Howard Beck (26 August 1870 – 22 November 1950) was an American ornithologist, bird collector for museums, and explorer. Beck's petrel and three taxa of reptiles are named after him, including a subspecies of Galápagos tortoise, ''Chelon ...

– US * Jean-Baptiste Bécœur – France * William Beebe – US *

Bruce Beehler Bruce M. Beehler (born October 11, 1951, in Baltimore) is an ornithologist and research associate of the Bird Division of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Prior to this appointment, Beehler worked for Conservation ...

– US * William H. Behle – US *

Lyman Belding Lyman Belding (June 12, 1829 – November 22, 1917) was a prominent American ornithologist. Biography Lyman Belding was born to Joshua Belding and Rosetta Cooley Belding on June 12, 1829, at West Farms, Massachusetts, but later moved to Kin ...

– US * Brian Bell – New Zealand *

John Graham Bell John Graham Bell (July 12, 1812 – October 22, 1889) was an American taxidermist and collector. He traveled with John James Audubon Lev Osipovich Belopolsky Lev Osipovich Belopolsky (4 July 1907 – 5 November 1990) was a Soviet ornithologist and marine biologist who founded the Biological Station of the Zoological Institute in Rybachiy. He worked extensively on polar ecology, especially in the Bare ...

– USSR *

Charles Bendire Major Charles Emil Bendire (April 27, 1836 – February 4, 1897) was a United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist and oologist. The Bendire's thrasher is named for him. Early life Born Karl Emil Bender at König im Odenwald in the Gran ...

– US *

Constantine Walter Benson Constantine Walter Benson OBE (2 February 1909 – 21 September 1982) was a British ornithologist and author of over 350 publications. He is considered the last of a line of British Colonial officials that made significant contributions to ornit ...

– England *

Arthur Cleveland Bent Arthur Cleveland Bent (November 25, 1866 – December 30, 1954) was an American ornithologist. He is notable for his encyclopedic 21-volume work, ''Life Histories of North American Birds'', published 1919-1968 and completed posthumously. Bent wa ...

– US *

Andrew John Berger Andrew John Berger (August 30, 1915 – July 4, 1995) was an American ornithologist from the American Museum of Natural History. Berger was born in Warren, Ohio on August 30, 1915. In 1939 he graduated from Oberlin College. After doing fieldwo ...

– US *

E. Alexander Bergstrom Edward Alexander Bergstrom (March 11, 1919 – March 21, 1973) was an ornithologist, scientific journal editor, and conservationist, doing all of his work in these fields as a volunteer. Life Edward Alexander Bergstrom was born in Boston, Massa ...

– US * Hans von Berlepsch – Germany * Grace Berlin – US * Victor Besaucèle – France * Thomas Bewick – England *

Valentin Bianchi Valentin Lvovich Bianchi (Russian: Валенти́н Льво́вич Биа́нки; 18 February 1857 – 10 January 1920) was a Russian ornithologist. He is honoured in the common and scientific names of Bianchi's warbler (''Seicercus valentin ...

– Russia * Eugene P. Bicknell – US *

Biswamoy Biswas Biswamoy Biswas (2 June 1923 – 10 August 1994) was an Indian ornithologist who was born in Calcutta, the son of a professor of geology.Mayr, E. (2000) "In Memoriam: Biswamoy Biswas, 1923–1994." ''The Auk'' 117(4):103PDF/ref> In 1947, he was ...

– India *

Gladys Black Gladys Bowery Black (1909–1998) was an American ornithologist, conservationist, and writer known as "Iowa's Bird Lady". She was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1985. Early life, education, and marriage Gladys Bowery was born Janua ...

– US *

Emmet Reid Blake Emmet Reid Blake (29 November 1908 – 10 January 1997) was an American ornithologist, collector, and curator of birds at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. During his career he made expeditions across South America and collected nearly ...

– US * William Thomas Blanford – England *

August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (5 July 1845 in Braunschweig – 31 May 1912 in Braunschweig) was a German ornithologist. Blasius belonged to a family of scientists: his father was the ornithologist Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809-1870) and his br ...

– Germany * Johann Heinrich Blasius – Germany *

Rudolf Blasius Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (25 November 1842, Braunschweig - 21 September 1907, Braunschweig) was a German physician, bacteriologist, naturalist and ornithologist. left, 200px, Grave of Rudolf and Mally BlasiusBlasius was the son of Johann Heinri ...

– Germany *

Edward Blyth Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta. Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 ...

– England * George Augustus Boardman – US/Canada *

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (2 May 1823 – 3 November 1907) was a Portuguese zoologist and politician. He was the curator of Zoology at the Museu Nacional de Lisboa in Lisbon. He published numerous works on mammals, birds, and fishes. In t ...

– Portugal *

Pieter Boddaert Pieter Boddaert (1730 – 6 May 1795) was a Dutch physician and natural history, naturalist. Early life, family and education Boddaert was the son of a Middelburg jurist and poet by the same name (1694–1760). The younger Pieter obtained his M.D ...

– Netherlands *

Hans von Boetticher Hans von Boetticher (30 August 1886 – 20 January 1958) was a German zoologist who worked on ornithology and entomology. Boetticher was employed at the natural history museum in Coburg, Germany, Coburg. Several of his works deal with the higher l ...

– Germany *

Nikolay Boev Nikolay Krumov Boev (8 May 1922 - 12 November 1985) was a Bulgarian zoologist who worked at the National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria) at Sofia. He specialized in ornithology, but also worked on mammals and was a pioneer of wildlife conservat ...

– Bulgaria *

Zlatozar Boev Zlatozar Boev (born 20 October 1955) is a Bulgarian ornithologist, paleontologist, and zoologist. He has published 345 papers and other material, in Bulgarian, English, French, and Russian. He has classified 36 taxa. Boev is a part of the Nationa ...

– Bulgaria * Friedrich Boie – Germany *

Auguste Boissonneau Auguste Boissonneau (26 July 1802, Saumur – 7 July 1883, Paris) was a French ornithologist and ocularist. In the latter field he was a pioneer of ocular prosthesis. As an ornithologist, he was the taxonomic authority of numerous species native ...

– France *

Charles Lucien Bonaparte Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French naturalist and ornithologist. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte. Life and career ...

– France *

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...

– US * Franco Andrea Bonelli – Italy *

J. Lewis Bonhote John Lewis James Bonhote M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. (13 June 1875 – 10 October 1922) was an English zoologist, ornithologist and writer. His name is mostly written as J. Lewis Bonhote (see especially his list of publications below). Bo ...

– England (1875–1922) * Bernard Borggreve – Germany *

Donald J. Borror Donald Joyce Borror (24 August 1907 – 28 April 1988) was an American entomologist and a pioneer of bioacoustics. He is famous for co-authoring a comprehensive textbook of entomology titled ''An Introduction to the Study of Insects'' which contin ...

– US *

Adolphe Boucard Adolphe Boucard (1839 – 15 March 1905) was a French ornithologist and trader in specimens who collected extensively in Mexico and Central America. He lived in San Francisco between 1851 and 1852, at the height of the California Gold Rush. He con ...

– France * Jules Bourcier – France *

Frank Swift Bourns Frank Swift Bourns (1866 – 1935) was an American ornithologist and doctor. He was involved in two different expeditions to the Philippines with Dean Conant Worcester to gather natural history specimens. From 1887 to 1888 they participated in ...

– US * Louis Hippolyte Bouteille – France *

Johann Friedrich von Brandt Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian natural history, naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia. Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Wittenberg and the Humboldt ...

– Germany/Russia * Rex Brasher – US *

Mark Brazil Dr Mark Andrew Brazil (born 8 June 1955) is a conservationist, author and journalist, particularly noted for his work on east Asian birds. Brazil was born in Worcestershire, England, and studied at Keele University, Staffordshire where he gradu ...

– England/Japan * Alfred Brehm – Germany *

Christian Ludwig Brehm Christian Ludwig Brehm (24 January 1787 – 23 June 1864) was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of the zoologist Alfred Brehm. Life Brehm was born in Schönau near Gotha on 24 January 1787. He was educated at University ...

– Germany *

Thomas Mayo Brewer Thomas Mayo Brewer (November 21, 1814 – January 24, 1880) was an American naturalist, specializing in ornithology and oology. Biography Thomas Mayo Brewer was born in Boston, the younger brother of noted Boston merchant Gardner Brewer. He ...

– US * William Brewster – US *

Mathurin Jacques Brisson Mathurin Jacques Brisson (; 30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher. Brisson was born at Fontenay-le-Comte. The earlier part of his life was spent in the pursuit of natural history; his published works ...

– France * Pierce Brodkorb – US *

Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head of the British Army, during the Se ...

– England *

Allan Brooks Allan Cyril Brooks (February 15, 1869 Etawah – January 3, 1946) was an ornithologist and bird artist who lived in Canada. His father William Edwin Brooks had been a keen ornithologist in India but growing up in a farming household in Canada ma ...

– Canada *

William Edwin Brooks William Edwin Brooks (30 July 1828 near Dublin, Ireland – 18 January 1899 in Mount Forest, Ontario) was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist. He later settled in Canada where his son Allan Cyril Brooks also became an ornithologist a ...

– Ireland/India * Herbert Brown – US * Nathan Clifford Brown – US *

Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne (; 19 October 160519 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a deep curi ...

– England * Carl Friedrich Bruch – Germany *

Friedrich Brüggemann Friedrich Brüggemann (1850, Bremen – 1878, London ) was a German zoologist and entomologist Friedrich Brüggemann was an Assistant in the zoological Institute in Jena Later he was engaged in work on the corals in the collection of the British ...

– Germany * Morten Thrane Brünnich – Denmark *

William Alanson Bryan William Alanson Bryan (23 December 1875 - 18 June 1942) was an American zoologist, ornithologist, naturalist and museum director. Life and work Bryan was born on a farm in New Sharon, Iowa. After his education, and his zoology studies, he gradu ...

– US * Henry Bryant – US *

Walter Buller Sir Walter Lawry Buller (9 October 1838 – 19 July 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist who was a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. His book, ''A History of the Birds of New Zealand'', first published in 1873, was publishe ...

– New Zealand * Hermann Burmeister – Germany *

Edward H. Burtt Jr. Edward "Jed" Howland Burtt Jr. (April 22, 1948 – April 27, 2016) was an American ornithologist, writer, and educator, and was responsible for many discoveries in ornithology. Background Burtt was born in Waltham, Massachusetts to Edward H., an ...

– US *

Arthur Lennox Butler Arthur Lennox Butler (22 February 1873 – 29 December 1939) was a British naturalist. Born in Karachi, he became a curator of a natural history museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He later became the superintendent of a game preserve in Sudan be ...

– India/England *

Edward Arthur Butler Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Arthur Butler (4 July 1843 – 16 April 1916) was an English ornithologist and British Army officer. He is commemorated in the scientific specific name for the Omani owl, ''Strix butleri''. Butler was born at Coto ...

– England * Johann Büttikofer – Switzerland/Netherlands/Liberia * Sergei Buturlin – Russia

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Jean Cabanis Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. Cabanis was born in Berlin to an old Huguenot family who had moved from France. Little is known of his early life. He studied at the University of Berlin from 18 ...

– Germany *

Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo (6 June 1922 – 14 July 2006) was a Brazilian zoologist and lawyer, who primarily worked with Brazilian birds. Life Camargo was born in the city of Piracicaba, São Paulo, in 1922, son of Theodureto Leite de ...

– Brazil * Archibald James Campbell – Australia * Melbourne Armstrong Carriker – US * John Cassin – US *

Montague Chamberlain Montague Chamberlain (April 5, 1844 – February 10, 1924) was a Canadian-American businessman, naturalist, and ethnographer. Biography Chamberlain was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada. He spent the first few decades of his life as a boo ...

– Canada/US * James Chapin – US * Frank Chapman – US * Frederick Nutter Chasen – England/Singapore *

Robert Ernest Cheesman Major Robert Ernest Cheesman CBE (1878, Ashford, Kent – 13 February 1962) was an English military officer, explorer, ornithologist and author. He is noted for being one of the first to map the Arabian coast and credited with the discovery of a ...

– England *

Tso-hsin Cheng Tso-hsin Cheng (郑作新 also transcribed as Zheng Zuoxin) (18 November 1906 – 27 June 1998) was a Chinese ornithologist known for his seminal work on the birds of China and mentoring a generation of researchers. Educated in the United States, ...

(郑作新) – China * George Kruck Cherrie – US/Costa Rica * John Lewis Childs – US * Glen Chilton – Canada/Australia *

Leslie Christidis Leslie Christidis (born 30 May 1959), also simply known as Les Christidis, is an Australian ornithologist. His main research field is the evolution and systematics of birds. He has been director of Southern Cross University National Marine Scienc ...

– Australia * Tadeusz Chrostowski – Poland * Charles Chubb – England * Phillip Clancey – South Africa *

Nigel Cleere Nigel Cleere (born 21 September 1955) is an English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something ...

– England *

James Clements James Franklin "Jim" Clements (October 31, 1927 – June 9, 2005) was an American ornithologist, author and businessman. He was born in New York, United States. He married Mary Norton and they had two sons. His second marriage, which lasted 14 ...

– US *

Stanley Cobb Stanley Cobb (December 10, 1887 – February 25, 1968) was a neurologist and could be considered "the founder of biological psychiatry in the United States". Early life Cobb was born on December 10, 1887, in Brookline, Massachusetts, to John Can ...

– US * Herbert L. Coggins – US * Leon Jacob Cole – US *

Peter Colston Peter Colston may refer to: *Peter Colston (ornithologist) (born 1935), English ornithologist *Peter Colston (rugby union) Peter James Colston (died December 2022) was an English rugby union player and coach. In a playing career which lasted from ...

– UK *

Herbert Thomas Condon Herbert Thomas Condon (27 February 1912 – 12 January 1978) was an Australian museum curator and ornithologist. He was born in Melbourne and attended the University of Adelaide. In 1929, Condon joined the scientific staff of the South Australi ...

– Australia *

Boardman Conover Henry Boardman Conover (January 18, 1892 – May 5, 1950) was an American soldier, salesman, and amateur ornithologist. Conover was born in Chicago, the son of Charles Hopkins Conover and his wife Delia Louise Boardman. He attended The Hill School ...

– US *

William G. Conway William Gaylord Conway (November 20, 1929October 21, 2021) was an American zoologist, ornithologist and conservationist. William Gaylord Conway was born on November 20, 1929, in St. Louis, Missouri. He began his career with the St. Louis Zoo ...

– US *

Wells Cooke Wells Woodbridge Cooke (25 January 1858 – 30 March 1916), was an American ornithologist who was called the “father of cooperative study of bird migration in America”. Cooke was the fifth child (of nine) and the eldest son of Rev. Elisha Wo ...

– US * Charles B. Cory – US *

Elliott Coues Elliott Ladd Coues (; September 9, 1842 – December 25, 1899) was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist, and author. He led surveys of the Arizona Territory, and later as secretary of the United States Geological and Geographic ...

– US * John Courtney – Australia *

Lee Crandall Lee Saunders Crandall (January 26, 1887 – June 25, 1969) was an American ornithologist and General Curator of Bronx Zoo. He worked at the Bronx Zoo from 1908 until his death in 1969. Biography Born in Sherburne, New York, before moving to Utica ...

– US *

Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (11 June 1786 – 4 May 1845) was a German physician and natural science, natural scientist. Cretzschmar was born at Sulzbach, Hesse, Sulzbach and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg. He taught anatomy and z ...

– Germany *

Maunsell Crosby Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby (February 14, 1887 - 1931) was an ornithologist, writer, and farmer. Crosby was the son of Ernest Howard Crosby, a noted author and reformer who served in the seat in the New York State Legislature formerly held by Theod ...

– US *

Georges Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier ...

– France

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* John Danzenbaker – US *

François Marie Daudin François Marie Daudin (; 29 August 1776 in Paris – 30 November 1803 in Paris) was a French zoologist. With legs paralyzed by childhood disease, he studied physics and natural history, but ended up being devoted to the latter. Daudin wrote ' ( ...

– France *

Priya Davidar Priya Davidar is an Indian scientific researcher, conservation biologist, scholar, and author. She retired as a Professor at Pondicherry University and has conducted ecological research in different regions of India. She has authored a few books ...

– India *

William Leon Dawson William Leon Dawson (1873–1928) was a noted American ornithologist, author and lecturer. Early years William Dawson was born on 20 February 1873 at Leon, a small county seat in southern Iowa just north of the Missouri state line. He was the ...

– US * William Ryan Dawson – US * Charles Walter De Vis – England/Australia * C. Douglas Deane – UK * Ruthven Deane – US * Côme-Damien Degland – France *

Dudley DeGroot Dudley Sargent DeGroot (November 10, 1899 – May 5, 1970) was an American athlete and coach, primarily of American football. He served as the head coach for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL) from 1944 and 1945, tallyin ...

– US * Herbert Girton Deignan – US *

Jean Théodore Delacour Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 – 5 November 1985) was a French ornithologist and aviculturist. He later became American. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world. He establish ...

– France/US *

Jacques Delamain Jacques Delamain (10 September 1874, Jarnac – 5 February 1953, Saint-Brice, Charente) was a French naturalist who specialised in ornithology. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ' with its founder Paul Paris and Louis Lavauden, ...

– France * Adolphe Delattre – France *

Georgi Petrovich Dementiev Georgi Petrovich Dementiev (russian: Гео́ргий Петро́вич Деме́нтьев; 5 July, 1898 – 14 April, 1969) was a Soviet and Russian ornithologist and professor at the University of Moscow. His studies based on museum collections ...

– USSR * Louis Denise – France * Antoon Emeric Marcel De Roo – Belgium * Jean-Marie Derscheid – Belgium *

René Louiche Desfontaines René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist. Desfontaines was born near Tremblay, Ille-et-Vilaine , Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medi ...

– France *

Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs (Paris, 18 April 1804 – Nogent-le-Rotrou, 25 February 1894) was a French amateur ornithologist and local politician and historian. Life His parents were Jacques Philippe Athanase Œillet Des Murs and M ...

– France * Barbara DeWolfe – US *

Douglas Dewar Douglas Dewar (28 May 1875 – 13 January 1957) was a barrister, British civil servant in India, and ornithologist who wrote several books about Indian birds. He wrote widely in newspapers such as ''The Madras Mail'', ''Pioneer'', ''Times of India'' ...

– England *

Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji Raol Shree Dharmakumarsinhji (April 1917 – January 1986) was an Indian ornithologist, environmentalist and writer as well as a ruling prince. His elder brother Krishna Kumarsinhji Bhavsinhji was the last Maharaja of the Bhavnagar State in weste ...

– India *

Elio Augusto Di Carlo Elio Augusto Di Carlo (2 September 1918, Amatrice, Italy – 27 July 1998, Cantalupo in Sabina, Italy), was an Italian ornithologist, historian and physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), ...

– Italy * Jared Diamond – US * Elizabeth Dickens – US *

Donald Ryder Dickey Donald Ryder Dickey (1887–1932) was an American ornithologist, mammalogist, and nature photographer. He collected 50,000 specimens and produced 7,500 photographs and moving images of nature subjects. At his death, his collection of bird and mam ...

– US *

Charles-Eusèbe Dionne Charles-Eusèbe Dionne (20 July 1846 – 25 January 1925), also known as Charles Eusebe or C. E. Dionne, was a French Canadian naturalist and taxidermist. He is considered the first professional French Canadian ornithologist. Dionne was a sel ...

– Canada *

John Disney John Disney may refer to: * John Disney (antiquarian) (1779–1857), English barrister * John Disney (ornithologist) (1919–2014), Australian ornithologist * John Disney (priest) (1677–1730), English clergyman * John Disney (Unitarian) John ...

– UK, Australia * Viktor Rafaelyevich Dolnik – USSR/Russia *

Janusz Domaniewski Janusz Domaniewski (1891–1954) was a Polish ornithologist. Notable published works include the following: * 1918: Die Stellung des ''Urocynchramus pylzowi'' Przev. in der Systematik. ''J. Ornithol.'' 66(4): 421–424. (first appraisal of ...

– Poland *

Caroline Dormon Caroline Coroneos "Carrie" Dormon (19 July 1888 – 21 November 1971) was a naturalist, ethnographer, and writer in Louisiana. She was a pioneer conservationist and was involved in the establishment of the Kisatchie National Forest and was also th ...

– US * Jean Dorst – France * Henry Eeles Dresser – England *

Rudolf Drost Rudolf Karl Theodor Drost (19 August 1892, Oldenburg - 3 December 1971, Wilhelmshaven) was a German ornithologist best known for his studies on bird migration conducted at the Heligoland observatory. Drost was the only child of Dr Karl Drost and Cl ...

– Germany * Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois – Belgium * Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Belgium * Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix – France *

Andrzej Dunajewski Andrzej Stanisław Julian Dunajewski (in German literature known as Andreas Dunajewski) (August 3, 1908, Wola Justowska – August 1944 ) was a Polish zoologist and ornithologist. Life and career Born in Wola Justowska to Stanisław Dunajewski and ...

– Poland * William Dutcher – US *

Jonathan Dwight Jonathan Dwight V (1858–1929) was an American ornithologist. Life Jonathan Dwight was born December 8, 1858 in New York City. His father was civil engineer Jonathan Dwight (1831–1910), grandfather Jonathan Dwight (1799–1856), great grandfa ...

– US * Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki – Poland

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* George Edwards – England, "Father of British ornithology" *

Elon Howard Eaton Elon Howard Eaton (sometimes Elon Eton; 8 October 1866 – 27 March 1934) was an American ornithologist, scholar, and author. He was born in the Town of Collins near Springville, New York, the son of Luzerne Eaton and Sophie Newton. As a youth, ...

– US * Scott V. Edwards – US *

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Ehrenberg was an evangelist and was considered to be of the most famous and productive scie ...

– Germany *

Eugene Eisenmann Eugene "Gene" Eisenmann (19 February 1906 – 16 October 1981) was an American and Panamanian lawyer and amateur ornithologist of German-Jewish ancestry. He had a long association with the Linnaean Society of New York (LSNY) as well as with the A ...

– US *

Walter Elmer Ekblaw Walter Elmer Ekblaw (March 10, 1882 – June 7, 1949) was an American college professor who served as geologist, ornithologist and botanist on the Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917). Life and career Walter Elmer Ekblaw was born in Champaign ...

– US *

Carl R. Eklund Carl Robert Eklund (January 27, 1909 – November 3, 1962) was a leading American specialist in ornithology and geographic research in both the north and south polar regions. He was appointed as the first Scientific Station Leader of the Wilkes S ...

– US *

Daniel Giraud Elliot Daniel Giraud Elliot (March 7, 1835 – December 22, 1915) was an American zoologist and the founder of the American Ornithologist Union. Life He was born in New York City on March 7, 1835, to George and Rebecca Elliot. In 1858, he married Ann ...

– US *

Carlo von Erlanger Carlo von Erlanger (5 September 1872 – 4 September 1904) was a German ornithologist and explorer born in Ingelheim am Rhein. He was a cousin to musicologist Rodolphe d'Erlanger (1872-1932). ''(See: Erlanger family tree).'' He studied ornitholo ...

– Germany *

Arthur Humble Evans Arthur Humble Evans FRSE (23 February 1855 – 28 March 1943) was a British ornithologist. Life He was born in Scremerston on the Northumberland coast on 23 February 1855, the son of Rev Hugh Evans, the local vicar. He attended school i ...

– England * Eduard Friedrich Eversmann – Germany * Thomas Campbell Eyton – England

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* Frederik Faber – Denmark *

Robert Falla Sir Robert Alexander Falla (21 July 1901 – 23 February 1979) was a New Zealand museum administrator and ornithologist. Early life Falla was born in Palmerston North in 1901 to George Falla and his wife, Elizabeth Kirk. As his father was wor ...

– New Zealand * Donald S. Farner – US *

Norman Joseph Favaloro Norman Joseph Favaloro (15 August 1905 – 25 October 1989) was an Australian lawyer and amateur ornithologist and zoologist. Norman was born in Bendigo. He practiced law in Mildura, Victoria, Australia, Victoria where he lived most of his life. ...

– Australia * Walter Faxon – US *

Alan Feduccia John Alan Feduccia (born 25 April 1943) is a paleornithologist specializing in the origins and phylogeny of birds. He is S. K. Heninger Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina. Feduccia's authored works include thre ...

– US *

Christoph Feldegg Baron Christoph Freiherr Fellner von Feldegg (13 October 1779 – 10 May 1845, Leipzig) was an Austrian army officer and naturalist. Fellner was born in a noble family in Krumau, Bohemia, where his father was a princely forester in Schwarzenbe ...

– Austria *

Frank Finn Frank Finn FZS, MBOU (1868 – 1 October 1932) was an English ornithologist. Finn was born in Maidstone and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford. He went on a collecting expedition to East Africa in 1892, and ...

– England *

Otto Finsch Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (8 August 1839, Warmbrunn – 31 January 1917, Braunschweig) was a German ethnographer, natural history, naturalist and colonial explorer. He is known for a two-volume monograph on the parrots of the world which earned ...

– Germany * Gustav Fischer – Germany *

Albert Kenrick Fisher Albert Kenrick Fisher (21 March 1856 – 12 June 1948) was an American ornithologist, known for his 1893 boo''The Hawks and Owls of the United States in Their Relation to Agriculture'' Fisher was born in Sing Sing, New York (now Ossining), where ...

– US * James Maxwell McConnell Fisher – England * Kenneth Fisher – England *

R. S. R. Fitter Richard Sidney Richmond Fitter (1 March 1913 – 3 September 2005) was a British naturalist and author. He was an expert on wildflowers and authored several guides for amateur naturalists. Life Fitter was born in London, England, on 1 March 191 ...

– England *

John W. Fitzpatrick John Weaver Fitzpatrick (born September 17, 1951 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American ornithologist primarily known for his research work on the South American avifauna and for the conservation of the Florida scrub jay. He is currently the ...

– US * Jim Flegg – England *

James Henry Fleming James Henry Fleming (Toronto, July 5, 1872 – June 27, 1940) was a Canadian ornithologist. His father was Scottish, and sixty years old when his son was born. James became interested in birds at the age of 12. He was an associate member of the Ro ...

– Canada *

Edward Howe Forbush Edward Howe Forbush (April 24, 1858 – March 7, 1929) was a noted Massachusetts ornithologist and a prolific writer, best known for his book ''Birds of New England''. Biography Born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1858, he was a precocious na ...

– US *

Joseph Forshaw Joseph Michael Forshaw is an Australian ornithologist, and expert on parrots. He was the former head of wildlife conservation for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service. Dreifus, Claudia.A Conversation With Joseph M. Forshaw: A Passi ...

– Australia * Johann Reinhold Forster – Poland-Lithuania/England * James Franklin – England/India * Louis Fraser – England *

Percy Evans Freke Percy Evans Freke (1844–1931) was an Irish ornithologist and entomologist. Freke was born in Dublin. At age 21, he enlisted in the 44th Essex Regiment. Two years later, in 1887, he exchanged to the 18th Royal Irish Regiment and after serving two ...

– Ireland * Herbert Friedmann – US * Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil *

János Frivaldszky János Frivaldszky (17 June 1822 – 29 March 1895) was a Hungarian entomologist and ornithologist. Nephew of Imre Frivaldszky, he succeeded him at the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Frivaldszky was born in Rajec, Trencsén County, Kingdom of ...

– Hungary *

Louis Agassiz Fuertes Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 Ithaca, New York – August 22, 1927 Unadilla, New York) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction ...

– US *

Max Fürbringer Max Carl Anton Fürbringer (January 30, 1846 – March 6, 1920) was a German anatomy, anatomist, known for his anatomical investigations of vertebrates and especially for his studies in ornithology on avian morphology (biology), morphology and clas ...

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* Gaszton Gaál – Hungary *

Hans Friedrich Gadow Hans Friedrich Gadow (8 March 1855 – 16 May 1928) was a German-born ornithologist who worked in Britain. His work on the classification of birds based on anatomical and morphological characters was influential and made use of by Alexander Wetmore ...

– Germany *

Joseph Paul Gaimard Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Biography Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31, 1793. He studied medicine at the naval medical school in Toulon, subsequent ...

– France *

Tim Gallagher Tim Gallagher is a writer and wildlife photographer and the author of six books: ''Parts Unknown, a Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places''; ''The Grail Bird, Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker''; ''Falcon Fever, A Fa ...

– US * William Gambel – US * Wulf Gatter – Germany * Heinrich Gaetke – Germany *

Prosper Garnot Prosper Garnot (13 January 1794 – 8 October 1838) was a French surgeon and naturalist. Garnot was born at Brest. He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on ''La Coquille'' during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822–1825). ...

– France *

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (16 December 1805 – 10 November 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. In 1854 he coined the term ''éthologie'' (ethology). Biography He was born in Paris, the son ...

– France *

Zéphirin Gerbe Jean-Joseph Zéphirin Gerbe (21 December 1810 in Bras – 26 June 1890 in Bras) was a French naturalist. He was the first to discover the pattern of wing taxis, the absence (diastataxis) or presence (eutaxy) of the fifth secondary in birds. He was ...

– France * Enrico Hillyer Giglioli – Italy * Frank Gill – US *

Theodore Gill Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian. Career Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural histor ...

– US *

Ernest Thomas Gilliard Ernest Thomas Gilliard (23 November 1912 – 26 January 1965) was an American ornithologist and museum curator who led or participated in several ornithological expeditions, especially to South America and New Guinea. Gilliard was born in York, Pen ...

– US *

Robert Gillmor Robert Allen Fitzwilliam Gillmor MBE (6 July 1936 – 8 May 2022) was a British ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author, and editor. He was a co-founder of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) and was its secretary, chairman and presiden ...

– England * Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Netherlands/Belgium *

Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov (russian: Николай Алексеевич Гладков; 20 March 1905 – 31 October 1975) was a Soviet ornithologist born in Russia. He published a multi-volume work on the birds of the Soviet Union along with ...

– USSR * Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger – Germany *

Johann Friedrich Gmelin , fields = , workplaces = University of GöttingenUniversity of Tübingen , alma_mater = University of Tübingen , doctoral_advisor = Philipp Friedrich GmelinFerdinand Christoph Oetinger , academic_advisors = , doctora ...

– Germany * Frederick DuCane Godman – England *

Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, surveyor, naturalist and geologist. He explored the mountains ...

– England *

Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez, Marquis of Bonanza (18 October 1923 – 27 September 2013) was a Spanish sherry maker and a conservationist. Most of his life he worked for the family company, González Byass, where he increased its exports ...

– Spain * Derek Goodwin – England * Philip Henry Gosse – England * John Gould – England *

Rolf Grantsau Rolf Karl Heinz Grantsau (March 25, 1928 Kiel – June 25, 2015) was a German- Brazilian naturalist and illustrator.Lima, P. C. (2015) Rolf Karl Heinz Grantsau (1928-2015). Atualidade Ornitológicas 185: 40. Biography Grantsau was born in 1928 in ...

– Germany/Brazil * George Robert Gray – England *

John Edward Gray John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for ...

(brother of George Robert) – England *

Andrew Jackson Grayson Andrew Jackson Grayson (1819–1869) was an American ornithologist and artist. Grayson was the author of ''Birds of the Pacific Slope'' (1853–69), which he considered to be a completion of John James Audubon's ''Birds of America''. Early life ...

– US *

James Greenway James Cowan Greenway (April 7, 1903 – June 10, 1989) was an American ornithologist. An eccentric, shy, and often reclusive man, his survey of extinct and vanishing birds provided the base for much subsequent work on bird conservation. Early ...

– US *

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, (25 April 1862 – 7 September 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British Liberal statesman and the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War. An adher ...

– England * Joseph Grinnell – US * Ludlow Griscom – US *

Hermann Grote Hermann Grote (7 July 1882 – 12 August 1951) was a German ornithologist known for his studies of African avifauna. While serving as a director of a sisal plantation in German East Africa, he published papers on the local avifauna (from 1909 t ...

– Germany *

Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard also Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard (2 April 1720 – 28 November 1785) was an eighteenth-century French lawyer, writer, naturalist, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie''. Biography The son of the arist ...

– France *

Johan Ernst Gunnerus Johan Ernst Gunnerus (26 February 1718 – 25 September 1773) was a Norway, Norwegian bishop and botanist. Gunnerus was born at Oslo, Christiania. He was bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros from 1758 until his death and also a professor of theology ...

– Norway *

Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning (3 September 1860 in Hilversum, North Holland – 26 June 1913 in Pretoria), was a Dutch physician, who served as the director of both the Staatsmuseum and what was then known as the Pretoria Zoological Gardens ...

– Netherlands/South Africa * John Henry Gurney Jr. – UK *

John Henry Gurney Sr. John Henry Gurney (4 July 1819 – 20 April 1890) was an English banker, amateur ornithologist, and Liberal Party politician of the Gurney family. Life Gurney was the only son of Joseph John Gurney of Earlham Hall, Norwich, Norfolk. At the age ...

– UK * Eberhard Gwinner – Germany *

Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe (30 September 1886 – 10 April 1961) was a Swedish explorer, zoologist, and ornithologist. Born in the central Swedish province of Jämtland, he visited Lapland from 1906 to 1909 and joined the expedition of ...

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Masauji Hachisuka , 18th Marquess Hachisuka, was a Japanese ornithologist and aviculturist.Delacour, J. (1953) The Dodo and Kindred Birds by Masauji Hachisuka (Review). The Condor 55 (4): 223.Peterson, A. P. (2013Author Index: Hachisuka, Masauji (Masa Uji), marquis ...

(蜂須賀正氏) – Japan *

Yngvar Hagen Yngvar Hagen (September 24, 1909 – March 22, 1993) was a Norwegian zoologist. Biography Hagen was born in Fredrikstad, Norway. From 1937 to 1938 he participated in the Norwegian Scientific Expedition to Tristan da Cunha in the southern Atl ...

– Norway * Pat Hall – England * Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany *

Edward Hargitt Edward Hargitt (3 May 1835 – 19 March 1895) was a Scottish ornithologist and landscape painter. Biography Edward Hargitt was born in Edinburgh, son of the composer Charles Hargitt. He studied art in the Royal Scottish Academy under Robert ...

– Scotland *

Herbert Hastings Harington Herbert Hastings Harington (16 January 1868 – 8 March 1916) was a British Indian Army officer and ornithologist who worked in Burma and wrote on the birds of the region. Harington was born in Lucknow to Herbert Harington of the Oudh Commis ...

– British India * Edward Harris – US * Colin Harrison – England *

Tom Harrisson Major (United Kingdom), Major Tom Harnett Harrisson, DSO OBE (26 September 1911 – 16 January 1976) was a British polymath. In the course of his life he was an ornithologist, explorer, journalist, broadcaster, soldier, guerrilla, ethnologist, mu ...

– Argentina/England *

Ernst Hartert Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist. Life and career Hartert was born in Hamburg, Germany on 29 October 1859. In July 1891, he married the illustrator Claudia Bernadine E ...

– Germany * Gustav Hartlaub – Germany *

François Haverschmidt François Haverschmidt may refer to: * Piet Paaltjens François Haverschmidt. François Haverschmidt, also written as HaverSchmidt (14 February 1835 in Leeuwarden – 19 January 1894 in Schiedam), was a Dutch minister and writer, who wrote pros ...

– Netherlands *

Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale Colonel Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, (9 November 1824 – 29 December 1878), known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and between 1862 and 1876 as Viscount Walden, was a Scottish soldier and ornithologist. Life Lord Arthur Hay was born ...

(published as Viscount Walden) – Scotland *

Helen Hays Helen Hays is an American ornithologist and conservationist. Hays has lived on Great Gull Island for six months of each year since 1969 in her capacity as chair of the Great Gull Island committee at the American Museum of Natural History. As o ...

– US *

Cornelis Hazevoet Cornelis Jan "Kees" Hazevoet (born 15 March 1948) is a Dutch ornithologist and former professional jazz musician. He played piano, clarinet, and sometimes trumpet during his musical career, during which he was among the leading figures in the intr ...

– Netherlands * Gerhard Heilmann – Denmark * Ferdinand Heine – Germany * Bernd Heinrich – US *

Katharina Heinroth Katharina Bertha Charlotte Heinroth née Berger, (4 February 1897, Breslau – 20 October 1989, Berlin) was a German zoologist and a director of the Berlin Zoo, succeeding her husband Oskar Heinroth, from 1945 to 1956. Life and work Katharina ...

– Germany *

Oskar Heinroth Oskar Heinroth (1 March 1871 – 31 May 1945) was a German biologist who was one of the first to apply the methods of comparative morphology to animal behavior, and was thus one of the founders of ethology. He worked, largely isolated from mos ...

– Germany * Carl Eduard Hellmayr – Austria *

Wilhelm Hemprich Wilhelm Friedrich Hemprich (24 June 1796 – 30 June 1825) was a German naturalist and explorer. Hemprich was born in Glatz (Kłodzko), Prussian Silesia, and studied medicine at Breslau and Berlin. It was in Berlin that he became friends with ...

– Germany * George Morrison Reid Henry – British Ceylon/England *

Henry Wetherbee Henshaw Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (March 3, 1850 – August 1, 1930) was an American ornithologist and ethnologist. He worked at the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology from 1888 to 1892 and was editor of the journal ''American Anthropologist''. Biography Early l ...

– US * James Hepburn – England/Canada *

Ottó Herman Ottó Herman (26 June 1835 – 27 December 1914) was a Hungarian zoologist, ethnographer, archaeologist, and politician; a polymath recognized as a pioneer of Hungarian natural history research. He made numerous studies on Hungarian spiders, bir ...

– Hungary * Johann Hermann – France * Theodor von Heuglin – Germany *

Joseph Hickey Joseph James Hickey (16 April 1907 - 31 August 1993) was an American ornithologist who wrote the landmark ''Guide to Bird Watching'' and was instrumental in the activism that led to bans on organochlorine pesticides through his research work on ...

– US * Warren Billingsley Hitchcock – Australia *

John Hobbs John Hobbs may refer to: *John Hobbs (ornithologist) (1920–1990), police officer and ornithologist *John Hobbs (baseball) (born 1956), Major League Baseball pitcher *John Raymond Hobbs (1929–2008), professor of chemical immunology *John Hobbs (m ...

– UK/Australia * Brian Houghton Hodgson – England/India *

Ralph Hoffmann Ralph Hoffmann (November 30, 1870 – July 21, 1932) was an American natural history teacher, ornithologist, and botanist. He was the author of the first true bird field guide. Early life Ralph Hoffmann was born on November 30, 1870, at Stockbr ...

– US *

Carl Peter Holbøll Carl Peter Holbøll (1795–1856) was an officer in the Danish Royal Navy, Greenland colonial officer and explorer of the Greenlandic fauna. Holbøll served as Royal Inspector of Colonies and Whaling in North Greenland (1825–1828), then Inspec ...

– Denmark *

Ajoy Home Ajoy Home (2 May 1913 – 30 October 1992) was a Bengali aviculturist, ornithologist and naturalist of India, based in the eastern state of West Bengal. The Archana Award was conferred upon him by the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad on 24 July 1992. H ...

– India *

Richard T. Holmes Richard T. Holmes is an American ornithologist. He was the 2002 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement in ornithological research. He was also a ...

– US *

Jacques Bernard Hombron Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. Hombron served on the French voyage of the ''Astrolabe'' and ''Zélée'' between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica. He described a number of p ...

– France *

Alexander von Homeyer Alexander von Homeyer (19 January 1834, in Vorland, now a part of Splietsdorf – 14 July 1903, in Greifswald) was a German soldier and ornithologist. He was a cousin of Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer, also an ornithologist. Homeyer joined the ...

– Germany *

Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer (11 November 1809 in Nerdin - 31 May 1889 in Stolp) was a German ornithologist. He made early studies of the birds of Pomerania, making collections, and was a staunch anti-Darwinian. Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer w ...

– Germany *

Andries Hoogerwerf Andries Hoogerwerf (29 August 1906 – 5 February 1977) was a Dutch track and field athlete, naturalist, ornithologist and conservationist, who spent much of his working life in the Dutch East Indies and Dutch New Guinea. Hoogerwerf's athletic ...

– Netherlands * Milton N. Hopkins – US *

Thomas Horsfield Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and natural history, naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the Eas ...

– US *

Henry Eliot Howard Henry Eliot Howard (13 November 1873 – 26 December 1940) was an English amateur ornithologist, noted for being one of the first to describe territoriality behaviours in birds in a detailed manner. His ideas on territoriality were influential ...

– England *

William Henry Hudson William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) – known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson – was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Life Hudson was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine (), U ...

– Argentina/England * Allan Octavian Hume – England/India *

Rob Hume Robert 'Rob' Hume is an English ornithologist, author and journalist specialising in avian and natural history subjects. From Spring 1989 (vol. 12 no. 5), until Summer 2009 (vol. 22 no. 6), he was editor of the RSPB's award-winning ''Birds'' ma ...

– England *

Syed Abdulla Hussain Syed Abdulla Hussain (13 August 1944 – 30 December 2009) was an Indian ornithologist. He is best known for the work he undertook at the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) along with Salim Ali. A species of frog '' Nyctibatrachus hussaini'' f ...

– India * Frederick Hutton – England/New Zealand

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* Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger – Germany * Collingwood Ingram – England *

Tom Iredale Tom Iredale (24 March 1880 – 12 April 1972) was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an Autodidacticism, autodidact who never went to university ...

– UK/Australia *

Hussein Adan Isack Hussein Adan Isack (born 1957) is a naturalist and ethnobiologist living in Kenya, having been a research scientist in ornithology. Background and youth Hussein Adan Isack was born to parents who lived in the pastoral Northern region of Kenya. ...

– Kenya * Yuri Andreyevich Isakov – Russia/USSR

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Pierre Jabouille Pierre Charles Edmond Jabouille (25 November 1875 – 15 May 1947) was a French colonial administrator in Indochina and took an interest in the ornithology of the region, describing numerous new species. Jabouille was born in Saintes, Département ...

– France *

Frederick John Jackson Sir Frederick John Jackson, (17 February 1860 – 3 February 1929) was an English administrator, explorer and ornithologist. Early years Jackson was born at Oran Hall, near Catterick, North Yorkshire in 1860. He attended Shrewsbury School ...

– England/Uganda *

Honoré Jacquinot Honoré Jacquinot (1 August 1815 in Moulins-Engilbert - 22 May 1887 in Nevers) was a French surgeon and zoologist. Jacquinot was the younger brother of the naval officer Charles Hector Jacquinot, and sailed with him as a surgeon and naturalist on ...

– France *

Helen F. James Helen Frances James (born May 22, 1956) is an American paleontology, paleontologist and paleornithology, paleornithologist who has published extensively on the fossil birds of the Hawaiian Islands. She is the Curator, curator in charge of birds ...

– US *

Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet of Applegarth FRS FRSE FLS FSA (23 February 1800 – 21 November 1874) was a Scottish naturalist. He is known for his editing of a long series of natural history books, ''The Naturalist's Library''. Life an ...

– Scotland *

Konstanty Jelski Konstanty Roman Jelski ( be, Канстанцін Ельскі, February 17, 1837–November 26, 1896) was an acclaimed Polish ornithologist and zoologist who explored French Guiana. Jeski was born in Liady village, now in the Smalyavichy Raion o ...

– Poland *

Thomas C. Jerdon Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (12 October 1811 – 12 June 1872) was a British physician, zoologist and botanist. He was a pioneering ornithologist who described numerous species of birds in India. Several species of plants (including the genus '' Je ...

– England/India *

Herbert K. Job Herbert Keightley Job (November 29, 1864 – June 17, 1933) was an American lecturer, bird photographer, conservationist, and writer who worked as an economic ornithologist in Connecticut. Life and career Job was born in Boston, Massachusetts, ...

– US *

Hans Johansen Hans Christian Johansen (2 December 1897–18 December 1973) was a Danish-Russian professor of zoology, first at Tomsk State University, later at the University of Copenhagen. Life Hans Johansen was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russ ...

– Russia/Denmark *

Hermann Johansen Hermann Eduardovich Johansen (Герман Эдуардович Иоганзен) (1866–1930) was a biologist and ornithologist from the Russian Empire. He graduated with a degree in zoology from Tartu University in 1889. He moved to Tomsk in 1893 ...

– Russia *

Richard F. Johnston Richard Fourness Johnston (July 27, 1925November 15, 2014) was an American ornithologist, academic and author. He was born in Oakland, California, and early developed an interest in zoology, especially birds. He served in the Army during World Wa ...

– US * Lynds Jones – US *

Christian Jouanin Christian Jouanin (1925 – 8 November 2014) was a prominent French ornithologist and expert on petrels. He worked for the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris and is a former Vice President of the International Union for Conservat ...

– France *

Henri Jouard Henri Louis Ernest Jouard (16 May 1896, Santenay, Département Côte-d’Or; – 16 March 1938, Vence, Département Alpes-Maritimes) was a French lawyer and World War I soldier who was also an ornithologist. He was, from 1929, on the editorial c ...

– France * George Junge – Netherlands

K

* Peter Kaestner – US *

Gisela Kaplan Gisela Kaplan is an Australian ethologist who primarily specialises in ornithology and primatology. She is a professor emeritus in animal behaviour at the University of New England, Australia, and also honorary professor of the Queensland B ...

– Australia *

Johann Jakob Kaup Johann Jakob von Kaup (10 April 1803 – 4 July 1873) was a German naturalist. A proponent of natural philosophy, he believed in an innate mathematical order in nature and he attempted biological classifications based on the Quinarian system. Kaup ...

– Germany *

Janet Kear Janet Kear (13 January 1933 – 24 November 2004) was an English ornithologist and conservationist who worked extensively on waterfowl and wrote several major works on ducks. She was the first woman to become president of the British Ornitholo ...

– England *

Charles Keeler Charles Augustus Keeler (October 7, 1871 – July 31, 1937) was an American author, poet, ornithologist and advocate for the arts, particularly architecture. Biography Early life Charles Keeler was born on October 7, 1871 in Milwaukee, Wisconsi ...

– US * John Gerrard Keulemans – Netherlands *

Charles Rollin Keyes Charles Rollin Keyes (1864–1942) was a U.S. geologist and in 1918 was a U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1887. He worked for the United States Geological Survey. He earne ...

– US * Alexander Keyserling – Germany *

Lavkumar Khachar Lavkumar Jiva Khachar or K.S. Lavkumar (24 February 1930 – 2 March 2015) was an ornithologist, nature and wildlife conservationist from India. Biography Khachar was born on 24 February 1930 in the royal family of the former princely state of J ...

– India * Norman Boyd Kinnear – Scotland * Jared Kirtland – US *

Heinrich von Kittlitz Friedrich Heinrich, Freiherr von Kittlitz (16 February 1799 – 10 April 1874) was a Prussian artist, naval officer, explorer and naturalist. He was a descendant of a family of old Prussian nobility ("Freiherr" meaning "independent lord" - ranking w ...

– Germany * Niels Kjærbølling – Denmark * Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany *

C. Boden Kloss Cecil Boden Kloss (28 March 1877 – 19 August 1949) was an English zoologist. He was an expert on the mammals and birds of Southeast Asia. The Rubiaceae genus '' Klossia'' was named after him. Kloss was born in a family of Dutch descent who li ...

– England/Malaya * Walter Koelz – US * Alexander Koenig – Germany *

Maria Koepcke Maria Koepcke (born Maria Emilie Anna von Mikulicz-Radecki, 15 May 1924 – 24 December 1971) was a German ornithologist known for her work with Neotropical bird species. Koepcke was a well-respected authority in South American ornithology and ...

– Peru * Paul Robert Kollibay – Prussia *

Elizabeth Kozlova 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 physician Vladimi ...

– Russia *

Niels Krabbe Niels Kaare Krabbe (born 1 July 1951) is an ornithologist and bird conservationist for many years based at the Vertebrate Department of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen and tutored by Jon Fjeldså. His research interests include v ...

– Denmark *

K. S. R. Krishna Raju K. S. R. Krishna Raju (11 March 1948 – 22 July 2002) was an Indian ornithologist who worked extensively in the Eastern Ghats of Vishakapatnam. He conducted multiple avifaunal surveys, ringed birds and collaborated with other ornithologists in ...

– India * Heinrich Kuhl – Germany *

Hans Kummerlöwe Richard Arthur Hans Kummerlöwe (5 September 1903 in Leipzig – 11 August 1995 in Munich, Münich), with the spelling changed to Kumerloeve from 1948 was a German ornithologist who served as an Schutzstaffel, SS Officer during the World War II, Se ...

(or Kumerloeve after World War II) – Germany * Nagahisa Kuroda (黒田長久) – Japan * Nagamichi Kuroda (黒田長礼) – Japan * Sayako Kuroda (黒田清子) – Japan

L

* David Lack – England * Elizabeth Lack – England * Frédéric de Lafresnaye – France *

Christian Ludwig Landbeck Christian Ludwig (Luis) Landbeck (11 December 1807 – 3 September 1890) was a prominent German ornithologist. He took part in an expedition to Chile and described many species of birds in collaboration with Rodolfo Amando Philippi. He directed t ...

– Germany * Bill Lane – Australia *

Amelia Laskey Amelia Rudolph Laskey (December 12, 1885 – December 19, 1973) was an American amateur naturalist and ornithologist noted for her contributions to the understanding of bird behavior. Though an autodidact without formal scientific training, ...

– US * John Latham – England * Alfred Laubmann – Germany *

Louis Lavauden Louis Lavauden (19 June 1881, in Grenoble – 1 September 1935, in Anjou, Isère) was a French zoologist and forester. He was a student at the Institut agronomique et de l'Ecole forestière in Nancy, afterwards conducting zoological studie ...

– France *

George Newbold Lawrence George Newbold Lawrence (October 20, 1806 – January 17, 1895) was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist. Early life Lawrence was born in the city of New York on October 20, 1806. From his youth, Lawrence was a lover of birds and s ...

– US *

Edgar Leopold Layard Edgar Leopold Layard MBOU, (23 July 1824 – 1 January 1900) was a British diplomat and a naturalist mainly interested in ornithology and to a lesser extent the molluscs. He worked for a significant part of his life in Ceylon and late ...

– England/Ceylon *

Dudley Le Souef William Henry Dudley Le Souef (28 September 1856 – 6 September 1923) was a founding member and founding Secretary of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in 1901, also serving as President of that body 1907–1909. His egg collec ...

– Australia * Elsie P. Leach – England *

William Elford Leach William Elford Leach Royal Society, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist. Life and work Elford Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of an attorney. At the age of twelve he began a me ...

– England * John Legg – England * William Vincent Legge – Australia *

Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1 August 1771 or 1772 – 8 December 1813) was a German physician and natural history, naturalist. Leisler named a number of birds, including the Temminck's stint, which he named after his friend Coenraad Jaco ...

– Germany *

Boonsong Lekagul Boonsong Lekagul (15 December 1907 – 9 February 1992) was a Thai medical doctor, biologist, ornithologist, herpetologist,Boelens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael. (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni ...

– Thailand * Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour – France *

René Lesson René-Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist. Biography Lesson was born at Rochefort, and entered the Naval Medical School in Rochefort at the age of sixteen. He ...

– France * François Levaillant – France * Graceanna Lewis – US *

Félix Louis L'Herminier Félix Louis L'Herminier (18 May 1779 – 25 October 1833) was a French pharmacist and naturalist born in Paris. His son, Ferdinand Joseph L'Herminier (1802 – 1866), was a botanist and zoologist. Felix L'Herminier studied chemistry and ...

– France * Hinrich Lichtenstein – Germany *

Karl Theodor Liebe Karl Theodor Leopold Liebe (11 February 1828 - 5 June 1894) was a German geologist and ornithologist. A pioneer in bird conservation, he established the first bird protection agency in Germany. Liebe was born in Neustadt an der Orla. His father ...

– Germany *

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

– Swedish * Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford – England *

Bradley C. Livezey Bradley Curtis Livezey (June 15, 1954 – February 8, 2011) was an American ornithologist with scores of publications. His main research included the evolution of flightless birds, the systematics of birds, and the ecology and behaviour of steame ...

– US *

Victor Loche Victor Loche (1806–1863) was a French soldier and naturalist. In 1856–1857, he participated in an expedition to the Algerian part of the Sahara, and described the mammals and birds of Algeria in the book ''Catalogue des mammifères et des oise ...

– France *

Hans Löhrl Hans Löhrl (25 May 1911 – 26 June 2001) was a German ornithologist and ethologist who conducted studies on bird behaviour, life-history, the imprinting of natal habitat, and wrote several popular books on bird life. Löhrl was born in Stuttgart ...

– Germany *Konrad Lorenz – Austria *Harald von Loudon – Germany *Michel Louette – Belgium *Herman L. Løvenskiold – Norway *Percy Lowe – England *George Lowery – US *Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar – Latvia/Germany/Russia *Hubert Lynes – Wales/England

M

*James Macdonald (ornithologist), James Macdonald – Scotland/Australia *William MacGillivray – Scotland *Cyril Mackworth-Praed – England *Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary *Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany *Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky – Russia *Alfred Malherbe – France *Louis Mandelli – Italy, India *Saverio Manetti – Italy *Stephen Marchant – Australia *Charles Henry Tilson Marshall – England/India *Kathy Martin (scientist), Kathy Martin – Canada *Ian J. Mason – Australia *George Masters – Australia *Gregory Mathews – Australia *Ernst Mayr – US *George A. McCall – US *Elliott McClure – US/Southeast Asia *John Porter McCown – US *Allan Reginald McEvey – Australia *Edward Avery McIlhenny – US *Thomas McIlwraith (ornithologist), Thomas McIlwraith – Canada *Charles McKay – US *Chris Mead – England *Edgar Alexander Mearns – US *Gerlof Mees – Netherlands *M.F.M. Meiklejohn – England *Annie Meinertzhagen – Scotland *Richard Meinertzhagen – England *Wilhelm Meise – Germany *Mikhail Menzbier, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier – Russia *Christopher Merret – England *C. Hart Merriam – US *Olivier Messiaen – France *Adolf Bernhard Meyer – Germany *Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee – US *Alden H. Miller – US *Alexander William Milligan – Australia *Alphonse Milne-Edwards – France *Clive Minton – Australia *Lacy Irvine Moffett – US *Juan Ignacio Molina – Chile *Edgardo Moltoni – Italy *Burt Monroe – US *George Montagu (naturalist), George Montagu – England *John J. Montgomery – US *Frederic Moore – England *Robert Thomas Moore – US *Reginald Ernest Moreau – England *Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen – Denmark *Guy Mountfort – England *Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller – Germany *Salomon Müller – Germany *Étienne Mulsant – France *Robert Cushman Murphy – US *Durno Murray – Australia

N

*Johann Natterer – Austria *Johann Friedrich Naumann – Germany *René de Naurois – France *K. K. Neelakantan – India *Adolph Nehrkorn – Germany *Henry Nehrling – US *Edward William Nelson – US *Thomas Hudson Nelson – England *Oscar Neumann – Germany *Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia *Alfred Newton – England *Edward Newton – England *Ian Newton – England *Margaret Morse Nice – US *Michael John Nicoll – UK/Egypt *John Treadwell Nichols – US *Max Nicholson – England *Günther Niethammer – Germany *Alexander von Nordmann – Finland *Alfred John North – Australia *Cornelius Nozeman – Netherlands

O

*Eugene W. Oates – England/Burma *Harry C. Oberholser – US *Bill Oddie – England *William Robert Ogilvie-Grant – Scotland *Claes Christian Olrog – Sweden/Argentina *Storrs L. Olson – US *Eduard Daniël van Oort – Netherlands *Alcide d'Orbigny – France *George Ord – US *Gordon Orians – US *Wilfred Hudson Osgood – US *Émile Oustalet – France

P

*Peter Simon Pallas – Germany *Shane A. Parker – England/Australia *Theodore A. Parker III – US *Kenneth Carroll Parkes – US *Carl Parrot – Germany *Titian Peale – US *Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US *August von Pelzeln – Austria *Thomas Pennant – Wales *James Lee Peters – US *Wilhelm Peters – Germany *Alan P. Peterson – US *Roger Tory Peterson – US *Sewall Pettingill – US *William Henry Phelps – US/Venezuela *William H. Phelps Jr. – Venezuela *Rodolfo Amando Philippi – Germany/Chile *Allan Robert Phillips – US *John Charles Phillips – US *Olivério Pinto – Brazil *Frank Pitelka – US *Graham Pizzey – Australia *Sally Poncet – Australia *Pilai Poonswad – Thailand *John du Pont – US *Leonid Portenko, Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko – USSR(Ukraine) *Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. – US *Josef Prokop Pražák – Bohemia *Alexandre Prigogine – Belgium *Aleksandr Promptov – Russia/USSR *Nikolay Przhevalsky (or Przewalski) – Russia *Jacques Pucheran – France

Q

*Jean René Constant Quoy – France *Vo Quy – Vietnam

R

*Dioscoro S. Rabor – Philippines *Stamford Raffles – England/Singapore *Edward Pierson Ramsay – Australia *Austin L. Rand – Canada *Pamela C. Rasmussen – US *Ludwig Reichenbach – Germany *Anton Reichenow – Germany *Pauline Reilly – Australia *Bernhard Rensch – Germany *John Richardson (naturalist), John Richardson – Scotland/England *Charles Wallace Richmond – US *Robert Ridgely (ornithologist), Robert S. Ridgely – US *John Livzey Ridgway – US *Robert Ridgway – US *Joseph Harvey Riley – US *Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul – Scotland *Sidney Dillon Ripley – US *Robert von Dombrowski, Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania *Chandler Robbins – US *Austin Roberts (zoologist), Austin Roberts – South Africa *Thomas Sadler Roberts – US *Herbert C. Robinson – England/Malaya *Edward Hearle Rodd – England *Theodore Roosevelt – US *Hermann von Rosenberg – Germany *Adriaan Joseph van Rossem – US *Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild – England *Frank Rozendaal – Netherlands *Eduard Rüppell – Germany *Karl Russ – Germany(Prussia) *Erich Rutschke – Germany *Wladyslaw Rydzewski – Poland

S

*Edward Sabine – Ireland *John Hall Sage – US *Finn Salomonsen – Denmark *Tommaso Salvadori – Italy *Osbert Salvin – England *Howard Saunders – England *William Edwin Saunders – Canada *William Savage (ornithologist), William Savage – US *Paolo Savi – Italy *Hans Schaanning – Norway *Alfred Schifferli – Switzerland *Eiler Lehn Schiøler – Denmark *Hermann Schlegel – Germany/Netherlands *Richard Schodde – Australia *Ernst Schüz – Germany *Philip Sclater – England *William Lutley Sclater – England *Giovanni Antonio Scopoli – Austria/Tyrol *J. Michael Scott – US *Peter Scott – England *Henry Seebohm – England *Josef Seilern – Austria/Czech *Prideaux John Selby – England *George B. Sennett – US *Pavel Serebrovsky, Pavel Vladimirovich Serebrovsky – Russia/USSR *William Serle – Scotland *Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (or Severtsov) – Russia *Richard Bowdler Sharpe – England *George Shaw (biologist), George Shaw – England *Frederick H. Sheldon – US *George Ernest Shelley – England *Althea Sherman – US *Hadoram Shirihai – Israel *Lester L. Short – US *Charles Sibley – US *David Allen Sibley – US *Helmut Sick – Brazil *Hendrik Cornelis Siebers – Netherlands *Eugène Simon – French *Ken Simpson – Australia *Vasily N. Skalon, Vasily Nikolaevich Skalon – Russia/USSR *Cuthbert John Skead – South Africa *Alexander Skutch – US *Tore Slagsvold – Norway *Andrew Smith (zoologist), Andrew Smith – Scotland *Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby – England *Bertram E. Smythies – England *Emilie Snethlage – Germany/Brazil *David Snow (ornithologist), David Snow – England *Barbara Snow (ornithologist), Barbara Snow – England *Jan Sokolowski – Poland *James Mortimer Southwick – US *Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg – USSR *Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden *Johann Baptist von Spix – Germany *Isaac Sprague – US *Don Stap – US *David Steadman – US *Joseph Beal Steere – US *Boris K. Stegmann – Russia/USSR *Joachim Steinbacher – Germany *Leonhard Stejneger – Norway – US *Georg Steller – Germany *Leo Stepanyan – USSR/Armenia *James Francis Stephens – England *Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic *Witmer Stone – US *Robert W. Storer – US *Erwin Stresemann – Germany *Hugh Edwin Strickland – England *Robert Stroud – US *Noah Strycker – US *Jacob H. Studer – US *Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm – Germany *Johann Wilhelm Sturm – Germany *J. Denis Summers-Smith – Scotland/England *Carl Jakob Sundevall – Sweden *Petr Sushkin – Russia *Ernst Sutter – Switzerland *George Miksch Sutton – US *William John Swainson, William Swainson – England/New Zealand *Charles Swinhoe – England/India *Robert Swinhoe – England/Formosa *William Henry Sykes – England/India *Jan Sztolcman (also as Jean Stolzmann) – Poland

T

*Władysław Taczanowski – Poland *Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Netherlands *John Kenneth Terres – US *Gerhard Thielcke – Germany *Johannes Thienemann – Germany *Ludwig Thienemann – Germany *William Lay Thompson – US *Arthur Landsborough Thomson – Scotland *Claud B. Ticehurst – England *Samuel Tickell – India *Luuk Tinbergen – Netherlands *Niko Tinbergen – Netherlands *Friedrich Tischler – Prussia/Germany *Walter Edmond Clyde Todd – US *John David Digues La Touche – England/Ireland *Charles Haskins Townsend – US *John Kirk Townsend – US *Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. – US *Alberto O. Treganza – US *Roland Trimen – England/South Africa *Henry Baker Tristram – England *Johann Jakob von Tschudi – Switzerland *Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen – Austria *Bernard Tucker – England *Marmaduke Tunstall – England *William Turner (ornithologist), William Turner – England *Konstanty Tyzenhauz – Poland

U

*Miklos Udvardy, Miklós Udvardy – Hungary/Canada *Tatsuo Utagawa (宇田川竜男) – Japan

V

*Dirk Van den Abeele – Belgium *Jacques Van Impe – Belgium *Victor Van Someren – Australia/Kenya *Josselyn Van Tyne – US *Charles Vaurie – France/US *Édouard Verreaux – France *Jules Verreaux – France *Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot – France *Nicholas Aylward Vigors – Ireland/England *Keith Vinicombe – England *William Vogt – US *Karel Voous – Netherlands

W

*Johann Georg Wagler – Germany *Will Wagstaff – Wales/England *Veleslav Wahl – Czechoslovakia *Johan August Wahlberg – Sweden *Lawrence H. Walkinshaw – US *Alfred Russel Wallace – England *Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay – England *George Waterston – Scotland *Richard Weatherly – Australia *Hugo Weigold – Germany *Alexander Wetmore – US *Hugh Whistler – India *Joseph Whitaker (ornithologist), Joseph Whitaker – Italy/England *Gilbert White – England *Henry Luke White – Australia *Otto Widmann – US *Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied – Germany *John Wiens – US *Lionel William Wiglesworth – England *Iolo Williams – Wales *Francis Willughby – UK *Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Alexander Wilson – Scotland/US *Kerry-Jayne Wilson – NZ *Scott Barchard Wilson – England *Marie Winn – US *Harry Witherby – England *Kazimierz Wodzicki – Poland/New Zealand *Hans Edmund Wolters – Germany *Won Hong-gu, 원홍구 – North Korea (father of Won Pyong-oh) *Won Pyong-oh, 원병오 – South Korea *Samuel Washington Woodhouse – US *John Woinarski – Australia *Dean Conant Worcester – US *Philogène Wytsman – Belgium

X

*John Xantus – Hungary

Y

*Yoshimaro Yamashina (山階芳麿) – Japan *William Yarrell – England *John Yealland – England

Z

*Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny – Ukraine/Russia *John Todd Zimmer – US *Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy

References

External links

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