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This is a list of
ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also
:Ornithologists.
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John Abbot – US
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Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US
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William Louis Abbott – US
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Joseph H. Acklen – US
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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
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Jon E. Ahlquist – US
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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 ...
(皇嗣秋筱宮文仁親王) – Japan
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Luigi d'Albertis
Luigi Maria D'Albertis (21 November 1841 – 2 September 1901) was an Italian naturalist and explorer who, in 1875, became the first Italian to chart the Fly River in what is now called Papua New Guinea. He undertook three voyages up this river ...
– Italy
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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
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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
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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
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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 ornithologists ...
– England, US
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Wilfred Backhouse Alexander
Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander (4 February 1885 – 18 December 1965) was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was a brother of Horace Alexander and Christopher James Alexander.
Alexander was born at Croydon in Surrey, England in 1885, a ...
– England
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Salim Ali
Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (12 November 1896 – 20 June 1987) was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Sometimes referred to as the "''Birdman of India''", Salim Ali was the first Indian to conduct systematic bird surveys across Indi ...
– India
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Arthur Augustus Allen – US
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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 Gu ...
– US
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Glover Morrill Allen
Glover Morrill Allen (February 8, 1879 – February 14, 1942) was an American zoologist.
He was born at Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of Reverend Nathaniel Glover Allen and Harriet Ann (Schouler) Allen, and studied at Harvard University. While s ...
– US
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Joel Asaph Allen
Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He became the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union, the first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of ...
– US
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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
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György Almásy – Hungary/Austria
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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
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Dean Amadon
Dean Arthur Amadon (June 5, 1912 – January 12, 2003) was an American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.
Amadon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Arthur and Mary Amadon. He received a BS from Hobart College in 1934 and a Ph.D. ...
– US
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George W. Archibald – Canada/US
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John Ash – England
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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 Societ ...
– Australia
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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
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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
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Jean Victoire Audouin
Jean Victor Audouin (27 April 1797 – 9 November 1841), sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and malacologist.
Biography
Audouin was born in Paris and was educated in the field of me ...
– France
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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 pictori ...
– France/US
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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
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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
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Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (August 8, 1863September 22, 1948) was an American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer. Between 1890 and 1939, she published a series of field guides on North American bird life. These guides were often ...
– US
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Jean-Baptiste Bailly – France
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Spencer Fullerton Baird
Spencer Fullerton Baird (; February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He eventually ...
– US
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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
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Russell Balda – US
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August Carl Eduard Baldamus – Germany
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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 t ...
– France
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Vladimir Balthasar – Czech Republic
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Betsy Bang – US
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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 ...
– US
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Richard C. Banks – US
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David Armitage Bannerman – UK
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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 M ...
– UK
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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 professor ...
– France
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Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland
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Walter B. Barrows – US
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George A. Bartholomew – US
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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
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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
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George Latimer Bates George Latimer Bates (March 21, 1863, Abingdon, Illinois US – January 31, 1940 Chelmsford UK), LL.D., M.B.O.U. was an American naturalist.
Bates studied at Knox College, Galesburg and at the Chicago Theological Seminary and in 1895 visited W ...
– US
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E. V. Baxter – Scotland
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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
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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
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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, ''Chelo ...
– US
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Jean-Baptiste Bécœur – France
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William Beebe
Charles William Beebe ( ; July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological ...
– US
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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 Conservatio ...
– US
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William H. Behle – US
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Lyman Belding – US
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Brian Bell
Brian Lane Bell (born December 9, 1968) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band Weezer, with whom he has recorded f ...
– New Zealand
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John Graham Bell – US
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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
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Charles Bendire – US
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Constantine Walter Benson – England
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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
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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
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E. Alexander Bergstrom – US
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Hans von Berlepsch – Germany
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Grace Berlin – US
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Victor Besaucèle – France
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Thomas Bewick
Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 17538 November 1828) was an English wood-engraver and natural history author. Early in his career he took on all kinds of work such as engraving cutlery, making the wood blocks for advertisements, and illustrating ch ...
– England
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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 valenti ...
– Russia
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Eugene P. Bicknell – US
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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
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Gladys Black – US
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Emmet Reid Blake – US
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William Thomas Blanford
William Thomas Blanford (7 October 183223 June 1905) was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on '' The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma''.
Biography
Blanford was born ...
– England
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August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius – Germany
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Johann Heinrich Blasius
Johann Heinrich Blasius (7 October 1809 – 26 May 1870) was a German zoologist. His sons, Rudolf Heinrich Paul Blasius (1842-1907) and August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (1845–1912) were ornithologists.
Biography
In 1836, he was appointed as ...
– Germany
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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
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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
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George Augustus Boardman – US/Canada
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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 the ...
– Portugal
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Pieter Boddaert
Pieter Boddaert (1730 – 6 May 1795) was a Dutch physician and 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. at the Unive ...
– Netherlands
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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.
Several of his works deal with the higher level taxonomy of ...
– Germany
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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
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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 National ...
– Bulgaria
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Friedrich Boie
Friedrich Boie (4 June 1789 – 3 March 1870) was a German entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and lawyer.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Universit ...
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Auguste Boissonneau – France
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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
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– France
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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 hav ...
– US
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Franco Andrea Bonelli
Franco Andrea Bonelli (10 November 1784 – 18 November 1830) was an Italian ornithologist, entomologist and collector.
Life
Very little is known about the early life of Bonelli: he was born in Cuneo and was interested from an early age in the ...
– Italy
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J. Lewis Bonhote – England (1875–1922)
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Bernard Borggreve – Germany
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Donald J. Borror – US
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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
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Jules Bourcier
Claude Marie Jules Bourcier (19 February 1797 – 9 March 1873) was a French naturalist and expert on hummingbirds.[Prosopo ...]
– France
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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 i ...
– US
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Louis Hippolyte Bouteille – France
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Johann Friedrich von Brandt
Johann Friedrich von Brandt (25 May 1802 – 15 July 1879) was a German-Russian naturalist, who worked mostly in Russia.
Brandt was born in Jüterbog and educated at a gymnasium in Wittenberg and the University of Berlin.
In 1831 he emigrat ...
– Germany/Russia
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Rex Brasher – US
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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 grad ...
– England/Japan
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Alfred Brehm
Alfred Edmund Brehm (; 2 February 1829 – 11 November 1884) was a German zoologist, writer, director of zoological gardens and the son of Christian Ludwig Brehm, a famous pastor and ornithologist.
Through the book title ''Brehms Tierleb ...
– Germany
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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 Univers ...
– Germany
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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
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William Brewster – US
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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 wo ...
– France
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Pierce Brodkorb
William Pierce Brodkorb (September 29, 1908, Chicago – July 18, 1992, Gainesville, Florida) was an American ornithologist and paleontologist.
Interested in birds since childhood, he was taught to prepare birds at the age of 16. Later, he rec ...
– US
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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 S ...
– England
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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 made ...
– Canada
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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
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Herbert Brown – US
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Nathan Clifford Brown – US
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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
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Carl Friedrich Bruch
Carl Friedrich Bruch (March 11, 1789 – December 21, 1857) was a German ornithologist. He was the younger brother of bryologist Philipp Bruch (1781–1847).[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
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Morten Thrane Brünnich
Morten Thrane Brünnich (30 September 1737 – 19 September 1827) was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist. Biography
Brünnich was born in Copenhagen, the son of a portrait painter. He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became ...
– Denmark
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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
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Henry Bryant – US
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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
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Hermann Burmeister
Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at the Uni ...
– Germany
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Edward H. Burtt Jr. – US
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Arthur Lennox Butler – India/England
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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 Coton ...
– England
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Johann Büttikofer – Switzerland/Netherlands/Liberia
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Sergei Buturlin
Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin (russian: Серге́й Александрович Бутурлин); 22 September 1872 in Montreux – 22 January 1938 in Moscow was a Russian ornithologist.
A scion of one of the oldest families of Russian nobil ...
– 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 1 ...
– Germany
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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 A ...
– Brazil
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Archibald James Campbell
Archibald James Campbell (18 February 1853 – 11 September 1929) was an Australian civil servant in the Victorian (later Australian) government Customs Service. However, his international reputation rests on his expertise as an amateur ornit ...
– Australia
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Melbourne Armstrong Carriker
Melbourne Armstrong Carriker, Jr. (February 14, 1879 – July 27, 1965) was an American ornithologist and entomologist. – US
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John Cassin
John Cassin (September 6, 1813 – January 10, 1869) was an American ornithologist from Pennsylvania. He worked as curator and Vice President at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and focused on the systemic classification of the Acad ...
– US
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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 ...
– Canada/US
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James Chapin
James Paul Chapin (July 9, 1889 – April 5, 1964) was an American ornithologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History.
Biography
Chapin is one of the highest-regarded ornithologists of the twentieth century. He was joint leader ...
– US
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Frank Chapman – US
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Frederick Nutter Chasen
Frederick Nutter Chasen (1896 – 13 February 1942) was an English zoologist.
Chasen was born in Norfolk, England. He was apprenticed to Frank Leney of the Norwich Museum in 1912, joining the Museum as a full-time employee in 1919. Between thes ...
– England/Singapore
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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 r ...
– England
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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, ...
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George Kruck Cherrie
George Kruck Cherrie (August 22, 1865 – January 20, 1948) was an American naturalist and explorer. He collected numerous specimens on nearly forty expeditions that he joined for museums and several species have been named after him.
Early lif ...
– US/Costa Rica
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John Lewis Childs – US
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Glen Chilton – Canada/Australia
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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 Science ...
– Australia
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Tadeusz Chrostowski
Tadeusz Chrostowski (25 October 1878 – 4 April 1923) was a Polish naturalist and explorer who made three expeditions to collect natural history specimens, especially birds, in the Paraná (state), Paraná region.
Biography
Chrostowski was bo ...
– Poland
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Charles Chubb – England
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Phillip Clancey
Phillip Alexander Clancey (26 September 1917 – 18 July 2001) was a leading authority on the ornithology of South Africa.
Background and education
Phillip Clancey was born, brought up and educated in Glasgow, Scotland. He studied at the Gl ...
– South Africa
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Nigel Cleere – England
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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
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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 Candl ...
– US
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Herbert L. Coggins – US
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Leon Jacob Cole – US
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Peter Colston Peter Colston may refer to:
*Peter Colston (ornithologist)
Peter R. Colston (born 1935) is an English ornithologist.
Colston was Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum until his retirement in 1995. He joined the staff of the museum in 1961, ...
– UK
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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 Austral ...
– Australia
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Boardman Conover – US
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William G. Conway – US
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Wells Cooke
Wells Woodbridge Cooke (25 January 1858 – 30 March 1916), was an United States, American ornithology, ornithologist who was called the “father of cooperative study of bird migration in America”.
Cooke was the fifth child (of nine) and the ...
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Charles B. Cory – US
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Elliott Coues – US
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John Courtney – Australia
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Lee Crandall – US
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Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar
Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (11 June 1786 – 4 May 1845) was a German physician and natural scientist.
Cretzschmar was born at Sulzbach and studied medicine at the University of Würzburg. He taught anatomy and zoology at the Senckenberg M ...
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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 ...
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Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in na ...
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John Danzenbaker
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Seco ...
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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 ' ( ...
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Priya Davidar – India
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William Leon Dawson – US
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William Ryan Dawson – US
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Charles Walter De Vis
Charles Walter de Vis (Birmingham, England, 9 May 1829 – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 30 April 1915), – England/Australia
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C. Douglas Deane – UK
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Ruthven Deane
Ruthven Deane (20 August 1851 – 20 March 1934) was an American ornithologist, noted as a founding member of the American Ornithologists' Union and for his collection of photographic portraits of ornithologists and naturalists.
Early life
Deane ...
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Côme-Damien Degland Côme-Damien Degland (6 July 1787 – 1 January 1856, Lille) was a French physician and zoologist.
Biography
Degland was born at Armentières, and lived in Lille for most of his life, where he was the chief of the Hôpital Saint-Sauveur, and where ...
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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, tallyi ...
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Herbert Girton Deignan
Herbert Girton Deignan (December 5, 1906 – March 15, 1968) was an American ornithologist who worked extensively on the birds of Thailand.
Deignan was born in New Jersey, the son of Harry Francis and Anna Galena. He grew up in Pennsylvania and ...
– US
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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 establishe ...
– France/US
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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
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Adolphe Delattre
(Pierre) Adolphe Delattre (or De Lattre) (12 February 1805, Tours – 3 January 1854, Nice) was a French ornithologist.
Between 1831 and 1851 he made several expeditions to America, where he was particularly interested in collecting hummingbird
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– France
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Georgi Petrovich Dementiev – USSR
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Louis Denise – France
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Antoon Emeric Marcel De Roo – Belgium
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Jean-Marie Derscheid – Belgium
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René Louiche Desfontaines
René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist.
Desfontaines was born near Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medicine. His interest in bo ...
– France
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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 Ma ...
– France
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Barbara DeWolfe – US
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Douglas Dewar – England
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Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji – India
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Elio Augusto Di Carlo – Italy
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Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American geographer, historian, ornithologist, and author best known for his popular science books '' The Third Chimpanzee'' (1991); ''Guns, Germs, and Steel'' (1997, awarded a Pulitzer Priz ...
– US
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Elizabeth Dickens – US
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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
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Charles-Eusèbe Dionne – Canada
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John Disney – UK, Australia
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Viktor Rafaelyevich Dolnik – USSR/Russia
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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
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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 ...
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Jean Dorst – France
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Henry Eeles Dresser
Henry Eeles Dresser (9 May 183828 November 1915) was an English businessman and ornithologist.
Background and early life
Henry Dresser was born in Thirsk, Yorkshire, where his father was the manager of the bank set up by his grandfather. Dres ...
– England
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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
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Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois – Belgium
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Bernard du Bus de Gisignies
Bernard Amé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (21 June 1808 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode – 6 July 1874 in Bad Ems) was a Dutch nobleman and later on a Belgian politician, ornithologist and paleontologist. He was the second son of Leonard Pierre J ...
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Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix – France
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Andrzej Dunajewski – Poland
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William Dutcher
William Dutcher (20 January 1846 – 1 July 1920) was an American businessman, amateur bird photographer, ornithologist and a keen proponent of bird conservation. Working in a New York insurance company, he provided support to the American Ornitho ...
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Jonathan Dwight – US
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Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki – Poland
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George Edwards – England, "Father of British ornithology"
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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
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Scott V. Edwards – US
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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 scient ...
– Germany
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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 ...
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Walter Elmer Ekblaw – US
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Carl R. Eklund – US
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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
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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 ornithol ...
– Germany
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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 in D ...
– England
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Eduard Friedrich Eversmann
Alexander Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (23 January 1794 – 14 April 1860) was a Prussian biologist and explorer.
Eversmann was born in Westphalia and studied at the universities of Marburg, Halle, Berlin and Dorpat. He received his degree of Phil ...
– Germany
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Thomas Campbell Eyton – England
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Frederik Faber – Denmark
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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 work ...
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Donald S. Farner – US
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Norman Joseph Favaloro – Australia
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Walter Faxon – US
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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 ...
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Christoph Feldegg – Austria
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Frank Finn – England
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Otto Finsch – Germany
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Gustav Fischer – Germany
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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), wher ...
– US
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James Maxwell McConnell Fisher – England
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Kenneth Fisher – England
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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 19 ...
– England
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John W. Fitzpatrick – US
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Jim Flegg – England
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James Henry Fleming
James Henry Fleming (Toronto, July 5, 1872 – June 27, 1940) was a Canadians, 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 membe ...
– Canada
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Edward Howe Forbush – US
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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 Passio ...
– Australia
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Johann Reinhold Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed (Calvinist) pastor and naturalist of partially Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America. He is best known ...
– Poland-Lithuania/England
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James Franklin – England/India
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Louis Fraser Louis Fraser (1819 – c. 1883) was a British zoologist and collector. In his early years, Fraser was curator of the Museum of the Zoological Society of London.
Little is known about Fraser's early life. He was born in 1819 or 1820 and married Mar ...
– England
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Percy Evans Freke – Ireland
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Herbert Friedmann
Herbert Friedmann (April 22, 1900 – May 14, 1987) was an American ornithologist. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 30 years. In 1929 he became a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) and served as the Presiden ...
– US
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Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil
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János Frivaldszky – Hungary
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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
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Max Fürbringer – Germany
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Gaszton Gaál – Hungary
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Hans Friedrich Gadow
Hans Friedrich Gadow (8 March 1855 – 16 May 1928) was a Germany, German-born ornithologist who worked in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Britain. His work on the classification of birds based on anatomical and morphological character ...
– Germany
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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, subseque ...
– France
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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
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William Gambel – US
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Wulf Gatter – Germany
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Heinrich Gaetke Heinrich may refer to:
People
* Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of p ...
– Germany
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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
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Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – France
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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
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Enrico Hillyer Giglioli
Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (13 June 1845 – 16 December 1909) was an Italian zoologist and anthropologist.
Giglioli was born in London and first studied there. He obtained a degree in science at the University of Pisa in 1864 and started to teach ...
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Frank Gill – US
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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 his ...
– US
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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, Pe ...
– US
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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 president ...
– England
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Bernard du Bus de Gisignies
Bernard Amé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (21 June 1808 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode – 6 July 1874 in Bad Ems) was a Dutch nobleman and later on a Belgian politician, ornithologist and paleontologist. He was the second son of Leonard Pierre J ...
– Netherlands/Belgium
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Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov – USSR
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Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger – Germany
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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, workplaces = University of GöttingenUniversity of Tübingen
, alma_mater = University of Tübingen
, doctoral_advisor = Philipp Friedrich Gmelin Ferdinand Christoph Oetinger
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– Germany
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Frederick DuCane Godman
Frederick DuCane Godman DCL FRS FLS FGS FRGS FES FZS MRI FRHS (15 January 1834 – 19 February 1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' ...
– England
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Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen – England
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Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez – Spain
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Derek Goodwin
Richard Patrick Goodwin (26 February 1920 – 14 May 2008), known as Derek Goodwin, was a British ornithologist who wrote a series of what ''The Times'' called "definitive works" on estrildid finches, crows and pigeons. He was considered to ...
– England
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Philip Henry Gosse
Philip Henry Gosse FRS (; 6 April 1810 – 23 August 1888), known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, an early improver of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of ma ...
– England
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John Gould
John Gould (; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist. He published a number of monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, including Edward Lear, ...
– England
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Rolf Grantsau – Germany/Brazil
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George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray FRS (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother ...
– England
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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 f ...
(brother of George Robert) – England
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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
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– US
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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 y ...
– US
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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 adhe ...
– England
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Joseph Grinnell
Joseph Grinnell (February 27, 1877 – May 29, 1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations known as ...
– US
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Ludlow Griscom
Ludlow Griscom (June 17, 1890 – May 28, 1959) was an American ornithologist known as a pioneer in field ornithology. His emphasis on the identification of free-flying birds by field marks became widely adopted by professionals and amateurs. ...
– US
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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 to ...
– Germany
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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
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Johan Ernst Gunnerus
Johan Ernst Gunnerus (26 February 1718 – 25 September 1773) was a Norwegian bishop and botanist. Gunnerus was born at Christiania. He was bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros from 1758 until his death and also a professor of theology at the Unive ...
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Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning – Netherlands/South Africa
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John Henry Gurney Jr. – UK
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John Henry Gurney Sr.
John Henry Gurney (4 July 1819 – 20 April 1890) was an England, English banker, amateur ornithologist, and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician of the Gurney family (Norwich), Gurney family.
Life
Gurney was the only son of Joseph John ...
– UK
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Eberhard Gwinner – Germany
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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 ...
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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), marqui ...
(蜂須賀正氏) – Japan
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Yngvar Hagen – Norway
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Pat Hall – England
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Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany
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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 S ...
– Scotland
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Herbert Hastings Harington – British India
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Edward Harris – US
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Colin Harrison – England
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Tom Harrisson
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, museum curator, archaeo ...
– Argentina/England
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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 El ...
– Germany
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Gustav Hartlaub
Karel Johan Gustav Hartlaub (8 November 1814 – 29 November 1900) was a German physician and ornithologist.
Hartlaub was born in Bremen, and studied at Bonn and Berlin before graduating in medicine at Göttingen. In 1840, he began to study and co ...
– Germany
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François Haverschmidt – Netherlands
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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 a ...
(published as Viscount Walden) – Scotland
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Helen Hays – US
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Cornelis Hazevoet – Netherlands
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Gerhard Heilmann
Gerhard Heilmann (later sometimes spelt "Heilman") (25 June 1859 – 26 March 1946) was a Danish artist and paleontologist who created artistic depictions of ''Archaeopteryx'', '' Proavis'' and other early bird relatives apart from writing the 19 ...
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Ferdinand Heine – Germany
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Bernd Heinrich
Bernd Heinrich (born April 19, 1940 in Bad Polzin, Germany), is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology. Heinrich has made major contribut ...
– US
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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
Katharin ...
– Germany
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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 mo ...
– Germany
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Carl Eduard Hellmayr
Carl Eduard Hellmayr (29 January 1878 in Vienna, Austria – 24 February 1944 in Orselina, Switzerland) was an Austrian ornithologist.
Biography
Hellmayr was born in Vienna and studied at the University of Vienna, although he did not complete h ...
– Austria
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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
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George Morrison Reid Henry George Morrison Reid Henry (17 February 1891, Sri Lanka – June 1983, England) was an entomologist and ornithologist in Sri Lanka.
He was born at Goatfell Estate, Kandapola, Sri Lanka where his father, Charles Reid Henry, managed tea estates. He w ...
– British Ceylon/England
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Henry Wetherbee Henshaw – US
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James Hepburn – England/Canada
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Ottó Herman – Hungary
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Johann Hermann
Johann, or Jean-Frederic, Hermann, or Herrmann, (31 December 1738 in Barr, Alsace – 4 October 1800 in Strasbourg) was a French physician and naturalist.
In 1769 he was appointed professor of medicine at the School of Public Health of Strasbo ...
– France
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Theodor von Heuglin
Martin Theodor von Heuglin (20 March 1824, Hirschlanden, Württemberg5 November 1876), was a German explorer and ornithologist.
Biography
Heuglin was born in Hirschlanden (now part of Ditzingen) in Württemberg. His father was a Protestant pas ...
– Germany
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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 t ...
– US
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Warren Billingsley Hitchcock – Australia
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John Hobbs – UK/Australia
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Brian Houghton Hodgson
Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1800 or more likely 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident. He described numerous species of birds and mammals from the Hima ...
– England/India
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Ralph Hoffmann – US
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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
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Ajoy Home – India
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Richard T. Holmes – US
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Jacques Bernard Hombron
Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852) was a French naval surgeon and natural history, naturalist.
Hombron served on the French voyage of the ''French ship Astrolabe (1811), Astrolabe'' and ''Zélée'' between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perim ...
– France
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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 P ...
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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 ...
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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 athletics ...
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Milton N. Hopkins – US
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Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773 – July 24, 1859) was an American physician and naturalist who worked extensively in Indonesia, describing numerous species of plants and animals from the region. He was later a curator of the East India Company ...
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Henry Eliot Howard – England
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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 ...
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Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume, CB ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British civil servant, political reformer, ornithologist and botanist who worked in British India. He was the founder of the Indian National Congress. A notable ornithologist, Hum ...
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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'' maga ...
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Syed Abdulla Hussain – India
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Frederick Hutton – England/New Zealand
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Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (19 November 1775 – 10 May 1813) was a German entomologist and zoologist.
Illiger was the son of a merchant in Braunschweig. He studied under the entomologist Johann Hellwig, and later worked on the zoological colle ...
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Collingwood Ingram
Collingwood "Cherry" Ingram (30 October 1880 – 19 May 1981), was a British ornithologist, plant collector and gardener, who was an authority on Japanese flowering cherries.
Personal life
Collingwood Ingram was a son of Sir William Ingram and M ...
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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 autodidact who never went to university and lacked forma ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 a ...
– England/Uganda
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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 ...
– France
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Helen F. James – US
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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 ...
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Konstanty Jelski – Poland
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Thomas C. Jerdon – England/India
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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 Ornithology, ornithologist in Connecticut.
Life and career
Job was born in Boston, M ...
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Hans Johansen – Russia/Denmark
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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 18 ...
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Richard F. Johnston – US
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Lynds Jones
Lynds Jones (5 January 1865 – 11 February 1951) was an American naturalist, professor and a pioneer in the field of animal ecology. He introduced academic courses in ornithology and ecology at Oberlin College where he taught for many years. Jone ...
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Christian Jouanin – France
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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 ...
– France
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George Junge
George Christoffel Alexander Junge (7 August 1905 – 3 February 1962) was a Dutch ornithologist who was an expert on the birds of Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, and New Guinea. He was born in Haarlem and studied zoology at the University o ...
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Peter Kaestner – US
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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 Br ...
– Australia
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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. Kau ...
– Germany
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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
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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, Wiscon ...
– US
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John Gerrard Keulemans
Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (J. G. Keulemans) (8 June 1842 – 29 March 1912) was a Dutch bird illustrator. For most of his life he lived and worked in England, illustrating many of the best-known ornithology books of the nineteenth century.
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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
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Alexander Keyserling
Alexander Friedrich Michael Lebrecht Nikolaus Arthur Graf von Keyserling (15 August 1815 – 8 May 1891) was a Baltic German geologist and paleontologist from the Keyserlingk family of Baltic German nobility.
Career
Alexander von Keyse ...
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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
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Norman Boyd Kinnear
Sir Norman Boyd Kinnear (11 August 1882 – 11 August 1957) was a Scottish zoologist and ornithologist.
Early life
Kinnear was the younger son of the wealthy Edinburgh architect Charles George Hood Kinnear and his wife Jessie Jane and came f ...
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Jared Kirtland – US
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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 ...
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Niels Kjærbølling – Denmark
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Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany
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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 ...
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Walter Koelz – US
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Alexander Koenig – Germany
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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 ...
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Paul Robert Kollibay – Prussia
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Elizabeth Kozlova – Russia
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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 ...
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K. S. R. Krishna Raju – India
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Heinrich Kuhl
Heinrich Kuhl (17 September 1797 – 14 September 1821) was a German naturalist and zoologist.
Kuhl was born in Hanau (Hesse, Germany). Between 1817 and 1820, he was the assistant of professor Th. van Swinderen, docent natural history at the ...
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Hans Kummerlöwe (or Kumerloeve after World War II) – Germany
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Nagahisa Kuroda
Nagahisa Kuroda (23 November 1916 – 26 February 2009) was a Japanese ornithologist. He wrote several books on the birds of Japan and worked on Japanese encephalitis, the systematics of shearwaters, ducks and on avian anatomy.
Kuroda was the son ...
(黒田長久) – Japan
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Nagamichi Kuroda (黒田長礼) – Japan
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Sayako Kuroda
, formerly , is the youngest child and only daughter of Emperor Emeritus Akihito and Empress Emerita Michiko, and the younger sister of the current Emperor of Japan, Naruhito. She is an imperial Shinto priestess of the Ise Grand Shrine, curren ...
(黒田清子) – Japan
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David Lack
David Lambert Lack FRS (16 July 1910 – 12 March 1973) was a British evolutionary biologist who made contributions to ornithology, ecology, and ethology. His 1947 book, ''Darwin's Finches'', on the finches of the Galapagos Islands was a landm ...
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Elizabeth Lack
Elizabeth Lack (1916–2015) was a British Ornithologist and Researcher, best known for her contributions to the massive reference book ''A Dictionary of Birds''.
Biography
Born Elizabeth Silva in June 1916 in Hertfordshire, England, her fathe ...
– England
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Frédéric de Lafresnaye
Baron Nöel Frédéric Armand André de Lafresnaye (24 July 1783 – 14 July 1861) was a French ornithologist and collector.
Lafresnaye was born into an aristocratic family at Chateau de La Fresnaye in Falaise, Normandy. He took an early inte ...
– France
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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 th ...
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Bill Lane – Australia
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Amelia Laskey – US
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John Latham – England
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Alfred Laubmann – Germany
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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 studi ...
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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 sp ...
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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 ...
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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 colle ...
– Australia
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Elsie P. Leach – England
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William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach 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 medical appre ...
– England
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John Legg – England
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William Vincent Legge
Colonel William Vincent Legge (2 September 1841 – 25 March 1918) was an Australian soldier and an ornithologist who documented the birds of Sri Lanka. Legge's hawk-eagle is named after him as is Legge's flowerpecker and Legges Tor, the seco ...
– Australia
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Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler
Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1 August 1771 or 1772 – 8 December 1813) was a German physician and naturalist.
Leisler named a number of birds, including the Temminck's stint, which he named after his friend Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778 ...
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Boonsong Lekagul – Thailand
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Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour – France
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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. H ...
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François Levaillant
François Levaillant (born Vaillant, later in life as Le Vaillant, ''"The Valiant"'') (6 August 1753 – 22 November 1824) was a French author, explorer, naturalist, zoological collector, and noted ornithologist. He described many new species of ...
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Graceanna Lewis
Graceanna Lewis (August 3, 1821 – February 25, 1912) was an American naturalist, illustrator, and social reformer. An expert in the field of ornithology, Lewis is remembered as a pioneer female American scientist as well as an activist in the ...
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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 ...
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Hinrich Lichtenstein
Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein (10 January 1780 – 2 September 1857) was a German physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist.
Biography
Born in Hamburg, Lichtenstein was the son of Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein. He studied medicine ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford
Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (18 March 1833 – 17 June 1896), was a British aristocrat and ornithologist.
Life
Lilford was the eldest son of Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford, and Mary Elizabeth Fox, daughter of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3 ...
– England
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Hans Löhrl – Germany
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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarde ...
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Harald von Loudon – Germany
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Michel Louette
Michel Louette is a Belgian ornithologist and author. He is the head of the Department of Ornithology at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, in Tervuren, Belgium. He has described five bird species new to science: three from the Democratic Re ...
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Herman L. Løvenskiold – Norway
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Percy Lowe
Percy Roycroft Lowe (2 January 1870 – 18 August 1948) was an English surgeon and ornithologist.
Life
Lowe was born at Stamford, Lincolnshire and studied medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge. He served as a civil surgeon in the Second Boer ...
– England
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George Lowery
George Hines Lowery Jr. (October 2, 1913 – January 19, 1978) was an American ornithologist and professor of zoology at Louisiana State University, who pioneered a technique for studying nocturnal bird migration by large-scale observation through ...
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Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar – Latvia/Germany/Russia
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Hubert Lynes
Rear Admiral Hubert Lynes, (27 November 1874 – 10 November 1942) was a British admiral whose First World War service was notable for his direction of the Zeebrugge and Ostend raids designed to neutralise the German-held port of Bruges, which w ...
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James Macdonald – Scotland/Australia
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William MacGillivray
William MacGillivray FRSE (25 January 1796 – 4 September 1852) was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
Life and work
MacGillivray was born in Old Aberdeen and brought up on Harris. He returned to Aberdeen where he studied Medicine a ...
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Cyril Mackworth-Praed
Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed (21 September 1891 – 30 June 1974) was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was also a naturalist and ornithologist who specialized on the birds of Africa.
Life and work
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Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary
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Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany
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Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky – Russia
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Alfred Malherbe
Alfred Malherbe (14 July 1804 – 14 August 1865) was a French magistrate and amateur naturalist born in Mauritius to Pierre Marie François Malherbe and Rosalie Le Meusnier Molineuf. The family originally came from Metz. Alfred became the adm ...
– France
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Louis Mandelli Louis Hildebrand Mandelli (1833–1880) was an Italian settler in India, a tea planter and amateur zoologist and ornithologist. Living in Darjeeling and collecting specimens of birds and animals around Sikkim, he discovered many species from the reg ...
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Saverio Manetti
Francesco Saverio Manetti also spelt Xaviero or Xaverio Manetti (Latinized as Franciscus Xaverius Manetti civis Florentinus) (12 November 1723 – 12 November 1785) was an Italian physician, botanist and ornithologist. Among his works is the trea ...
– Italy
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Stephen Marchant
Stephen Marchant, AM (1912 – August 2003) was born in Staffordshire, studied geology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and worked in the oil exploration business in many countries, using the opportunities arising from his postings to st ...
– Australia
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Charles Henry Tilson Marshall
Charles Henry Tilson Marshall (1841 – 20 January 1927Anon, (1927) Obituary. Nature 119:397-397 ) was a British Army Officer, serving in the Punjab, India. In his spare time he collected birds in the Punjab and the Himalayas, and sent these to ...
– England/India
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Kathy Martin – Canada
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Ian J. Mason – Australia
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George Masters
George Masters (1837-1912) was a zoologist, active in Australia during the 19th century.
Biography
Born in Maidstone, England, to Matilda, née Terry, he was trained as a gardener by his father, George Masters, before moving to Sydney. Masters ...
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Gregory Mathews
Gregory Macalister Mathews CBE FRSE FZS FLS (10 September 1876 – 27 March 1949) was an Australian-born amateur ornithologist who spent most of his later life in England.
Life
He was born in Biamble in New South Wales the son of Robert H. M ...
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Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, philosopher of biology, and historian of science. His ...
– US
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George A. McCall
George Archibald McCall (March 16, 1802 – February 25, 1868) was a United States Army officer who became a brigadier general and prisoner of war during the American Civil War. He was also a naturalist.
Biography
McCall was born in Philade ...
– US
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Elliott McClure – US/Southeast Asia
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John Porter McCown
John Porter McCown (August 19, 1815 – January 22, 1879) was a career officer in the United States Army, fighting in the Mexican–American War and in the Seminole Wars. He also served as a General officer, general in the Confederate States A ...
– US
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Allan Reginald McEvey
Allan Reginald McEvey (1919–1996) was a schoolteacher before becoming Curator of Ornithology at the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. In 1962–63 he participated in the first of the Harold Hall Australian ornithological c ...
– Australia
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Edward Avery McIlhenny
Edward Avery McIlhenny (March 29, 1872 – August 8, 1949), son of Tabasco brand pepper sauce tycoon Edmund McIlhenny, was an American businessman, explorer, bird bander and conservationist. He established a private wildlife refuge around his ...
– US
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Thomas McIlwraith
Sir Thomas McIlwraith (17 May 1835 – 17 July 1900) was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland. He was Premier of Queensland from 1879 to 1883, again in 1888, and for a third time in 1893. In common with most ...
– Canada
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Charles McKay – US
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Chris Mead
Christopher John Mead (1 May 1940 – 16 January 2003) was a popular British ornithologist, author and broadcaster, and an influential member of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
Mead was an avid lover of jazz, (watching) rugby, motor rac ...
– England
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Edgar Alexander Mearns
Edgar Alexander Mearns (September 11, 1856 – November 1, 1916) was an American surgeon, ornithologist and field naturalist. He was a founder of the American Ornithologists' Union.
Life
Mearns was born in n Highland Falls, New York to Alex ...
– US
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Gerlof Mees
Gerlof Fokko Mees (16 June 1926 – 31 March 2013) was a Dutch ichthyologist, ornithologist and museum curator. During 1946 to 1949 he took part as a conscript in the military actions to reestablish rule in the Dutch East Indies. During that time h ...
– Netherlands
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M.F.M. Meiklejohn – England
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Annie Meinertzhagen – Scotland
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Richard Meinertzhagen
Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer, and ornithologist. He had a decorated military career spanning Africa and the Middle East. He was credited with creating and ...
– England
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Wilhelm Meise Wilhelm Meise (12 September 1901 in Essen - 24 August 2002 in Hamburg) was a German ornithologist.Haffer, Jurgen (2003)''In memoriam'': Wilhelm Meise, 1901-2002 ''The Auk,'' 120(2): 540. (Apr 2003) He studied at the University of Berlin from 1924 ...
– Germany
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier – Russia
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Christopher Merret – England
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C. Hart Merriam
Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855 – March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist, mammalogist, ornithologist, entomologist, ecologist, ethnographer, geographer, naturalist and physician. He was commonly known as the 'father of mammalogy', a ...
– US
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Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithology, ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th century. His m ...
– France
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Adolf Bernhard Meyer
Adolf Bernhard Meyer (11 October 1840, Hamburg – 22 August 1911, Dresden) was a German anthropologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist. He served for nearly thirty years as director of the Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologis ...
– Germany
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Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee – US
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Alden H. Miller – US
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Alexander William Milligan
Alexander William Milligan (1858 – 30 March 1921) was an Australian accountant, legal clerk, zoological collector and ornithologist.
Milligan was born at Sulky Gully, near Ballarat in Victoria. He was educated at Guildford, Victoria. In 18 ...
– Australia
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Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who se ...
– France
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Clive Minton
Clive Dudley Thomas Minton, AM (7 October 1934 – 6 November 2019Katie Allen (2019"Revolutionary in the study of wader birds"'The Sydney Morning Herald'', 11 December 2019. Archived frooriginalon 11 December 2019.) was a British and Australian ...
– Australia
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Lacy Irvine Moffett – US
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Juan Ignacio Molina
Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina (; (June 24, 1740 – September 12, 1829) was a Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, translator, geographer, botanist, ornithologist, and linguist. He is usually referred to as Abate Molina (a form of Abbot Moli ...
– Chile
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Edgardo Moltoni – Italy
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Burt Monroe
Burt Leavelle Monroe, Jr. (25 August 1930 – 14 May 1994, in Louisville, Kentucky) was an American ornithologist, a professor at the University of Louisville, a member of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) beginning in 1953. Among his major ...
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George Montagu – England
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John J. Montgomery – US
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Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company.
It has been said that Moo ...
– England
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Robert Thomas Moore
Robert Thomas ("R. T.") Moore (June 24, 1882 – October 30, 1958) was an American businessman, ornithologist, philanthropist, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards. In his obituary, Lionel Stevenson wrote, "Robe ...
– US
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Reginald Ernest Moreau
Reginald Ernest Moreau, (29 May 1897 – 30 May 1970), was an English civil servant who worked as an accountant in Africa and later contributed to ornithology. He made studies of clutch size in nesting birds, compared the life-histories of birds in ...
– England
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Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen
Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen (27 August 1856 – 7 June 1921) was a Danish teacher and ornithologist. He was the first to employ bird ringing for scientific purposes.
Mortensen was born in Jonstrup on the island of Zealand, Denmark. A ...
– Denmark
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Guy Mountfort
Guy Mountfort (4 December 1905 – 23 April 2003) was an English advertising executive, amateur ornithologist and conservationist. He is known for writing the pioneering ''A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe'', published in 1954 ...
– England
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Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (25 April 1725 – 5 January 1776) was a German zoologist.
Statius Müller was born in Esens, and was a professor of natural science at Erlangen. Between 1773 and 1776, he published a German translation of Linn ...
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Salomon Müller Salomon Müller (7 April 1804 – 29 December 1864) was a German naturalist. He was born in Heidelberg, and died in Freiburg im Breisgau.
Müller was the son of a saddler in Heidelberg. Along with Heinrich Boie and Heinrich Christian Macklot, he w ...
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Étienne Mulsant – France
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Robert Cushman Murphy
The whaling ship, ''Daisy'', which Murphy traveled on to the Antarctic
Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History. He went on numer ...
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Durno Murray – Australia
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Johann Natterer – Austria
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Johann Friedrich Naumann – Germany
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René de Naurois
Abbé René de Naurois (24 November 1906 – 12 January 2006) was a French Priesthood (Catholic Church), Catholic priest, chaplain, and ornithology, ornithologist.
Second World War
During the World War II, Second World War Naurois assisted the Fr ...
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K. K. Neelakantan – India
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Adolph Nehrkorn – Germany
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Henry Nehrling – US
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Edward William Nelson
Edward William Nelson (May 8, 1855 – May 19, 1934) was an American naturalist and ethnologist. A collector of specimens and field naturalist of repute, he became a member of several expeditions to survey the fauna and flora. He was part o ...
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Thomas Hudson Nelson – England
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Oscar Neumann
Oscar Rudolph Neumann (3 September 1867 in Berlin – 17 May 1946 in Chicago) was a German ornithologist and naturalist who explored and collected specimens in Africa. He fled via Cuba and settled in the United States to escape Nazi persecutio ...
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Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia
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Alfred Newton
Alfred Newton FRS HFRSE (11 June 18297 June 1907) was an English zoologist and ornithologist. Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907. Among his numerous publications were a four-volume ''Dictionar ...
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Edward Newton
Sir Edward Newton (10 November 1832 – 25 April 1897) was a British colonial administrator and ornithologist.
He was born at Elveden Hall, Suffolk the sixth and youngest son of William Newton, MP. He was the brother of ornithologist Alfre ...
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Ian Newton – England
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Margaret Morse Nice – US
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Michael John Nicoll – UK/Egypt
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John Treadwell Nichols
John Treadwell Nichols (June 11, 1883 – November 10, 1958) was an American ichthyologist and ornithologist.
Life and career
Nichols was born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Blake (Slocum) and John White Treadwell Nic ...
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Max Nicholson – England
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Günther Niethammer
Günther Theodor Niethammer (28 September 1908 Waldheim – 14 January 1974, Kottenforst) was a German ornithologist who served during the Second World War with the Nazi Waffen-SS at various places including the Auschwitz concentration camp where ...
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Alexander von Nordmann
Alexander von Nordmann (24 May 1803 in Ruotsinsalmi (now Kotka), Finland – 25 June 1866 in Helsinki) was a 19th-century Finnish biologist, who contributed to zoology, parasitology, botany and paleontology.Leikola A (2001Nordmann, Alexander ...
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Alfred John North
Alfred John North (11 June 1855 – 6 May 1917) was an Australian ornithologist.
North was born in Melbourne and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School. He was appointed to the Australian Museum, Sydney in 1886 and was given a permanent positi ...
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Cornelius Nozeman – Netherlands
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Eugene W. Oates – England/Burma
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Harry C. Oberholser
Harry Church Oberholser (June 25, 1870 – December 25, 1963) was an American ornithologist.
Biography
Harry Oberholser was born to Jacob and Lavera S. Oberholser on June 25, 1870, in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Columbia University, but did ...
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Bill Oddie
William Edgar Oddie (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, comedian, songwriter, musician, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies.
A birder since his childhood in Quinto ...
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William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (25 March 1863 – 26 July 1924) was a Scottish ornithologist.
Early life and education
Grant born on 25 March 1863 as second son of Capt. Hon. George Henry Essex Ogilvie-Grant, of Easter Elchies, Craigellachie, Sco ...
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Claes Christian Olrog
Claës Christian Olrog (25 November 1912 – 29 November 1985) was a Swedish-born ornithologist who worked in Argentina. He published ''Las Aves Argentinas'' (1959) which was one of the first field guides for Argentina.
Olrog was born in Stockholm ...
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Storrs L. Olson – US
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Eduard Daniël van Oort
Eduard Daniël van Oort (31 October 1876 in Barneveld, Gelderland – 21 September 1933 in Leiden) was a Dutch ornithologist.
Oort was in charge of the bird collections at the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden; in 1915 he was made ...
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Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropol ...
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George Ord
George Ord, Jr. (March 4, 1781 – January 24, 1866) was an American zoologist who specialized in North American ornithology and mammalogy. Based in part on specimens collected by Lewis and Clark in the North American interior, Ord's article "Zool ...
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Gordon Orians – US
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Wilfred Hudson Osgood
Wilfred Hudson Osgood (December 8, 1875 – June 20, 1947) was an American zoologist.
Biography
Osgood was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, the oldest child of a family of watchmakers. The family moved to California in 1888 and he went to study ...
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Émile Oustalet
Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (24 August 1844 – 23 October 1905 Saint-Cast) was a French zoologist.Hellmayr CE (1906). "Emile Oustalet bituary. ''Ornithologische Monatsberichte'' 14 (4): 57-59Scan
Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the de ...
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Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia between 1767 and 1810.
Life and work
Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery ...
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Shane A. Parker – England/Australia
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Theodore A. Parker III – US
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Kenneth Carroll Parkes – US
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Carl Parrot – Germany
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Titian Peale
Titian Ramsay Peale (November 2, 1799 – March 13, 1885) was an American artist, naturalist, and explorer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a scientific illustrator whose paintings and drawings of wildlife are known for their beauty an ...
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Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US
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August von Pelzeln
August von Pelzeln (10 May 1825, Prague – 2 September 1891 in Oberdöbling) was an Austrian ornithologist. He was a grandson to novelist Karoline Pichler (1769-1843).[Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (14 June OS 172616 December 1798) was a Welsh naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales.
As a naturalist he had ...]
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James Lee Peters – US
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Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 in Koldenbüttel – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.
He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Muse ...
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Alan P. Peterson – US
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Roger Tory Peterson
Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, illustrator and educator, and one of the founding inspirations for the 20th-century environmental movement.
Background
Peterson was born in James ...
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Sewall Pettingill – US
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William Henry Phelps – US/Venezuela
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William H. Phelps Jr. – Venezuela
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Rodolfo Amando Philippi
Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist. Philippi contributed primarily to malacology and paleontology. His grandson, Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados ( ...
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Allan Robert Phillips
Allan Robert Phillips (October 25, 1914 – January 26, 1996) was an American ornithologist
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several asp ...
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John Charles Phillips – US
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Olivério Pinto – Brazil
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Frank Pitelka
Frank Alois Pitelka (27 March 1916 – 10 October 2003) was an American ornithologist. He was the 2001 recipient of the Cooper Ornithological Society’s Loye and Alden Miller Research Award, which is given in recognition of lifetime achievement ...
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Graham Pizzey – Australia
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Sally Poncet
Sally Poncet (born 1954) is an Australian-born scientist and adventurer who has explored and studied the Antarctic region since 1977. Her specialty is birds and she made extensive studies of albatross and their habitats for the British Antarctic ...
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Pilai Poonswad – Thailand
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John du Pont – US
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Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko – USSR(Ukraine)
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Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. (born July 23, 1944, in Charlotte, North Carolina), often credited in the short form H. Douglas Pratt or as Doug Pratt, is an American ornithologist, bio acoustican, wildlife photographer, bird illustrator, and musician. His ...
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Josef Prokop Pražák – Bohemia
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Alexandre Prigogine
Alexandre Romanovich Prigogine (12 April 1913, Moscow - 7 May 1991, Brussels) was a Belgian mineralogist and ornithologist of Russian-Jewish origin.
Born into a Jewish family in Moscow, his father Roman (Ruvim Abramovich) Prigogine was a chemica ...
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Aleksandr Promptov – Russia/USSR
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Nikolay Przhevalsky
Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (or Prjevalsky;; pl, Nikołaj Przewalski, . – ) was a Russian geographer of Polish descent (he was born in a Polish noble family), and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia.
Although he never reac ...
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Jacques Pucheran – France
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Jean René Constant Quoy
Jean René Constant Quoy (10 November 1790 in Maillé – 4 July 1869 in Rochefort) was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist.
In 1806, he began his medical studies at the school of naval medicine at Rochefort, afterwards serving ...
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Vo Quy
Vo or VO may refer to:
Businesses and brands
* Austrian Arrows (2003-2015, IATA airline code VO)
* VLM Airlines Slovenia (2016-2018, IATA airline code VO)
* Seagram's VO Whiskey
Language
* Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code vo)
* VO language, a ...
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Dioscoro S. Rabor – Philippines
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Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British statesman who served as the Lieutenant-Governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816, and Lieutenant-Governor of Bencoolen between 1818 and 1824. He is ...
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Edward Pierson Ramsay
Edward Pierson Ramsay FRSEFLS LLD (3 December 1842 – 16 December 1916) was an Australian zoologist who specialised in ornithology.
Early life
Ramsay was born in Dobroyd Estate, Long Cove, Sydney, and educated at St Mark's Collegiate School, Th ...
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Austin L. Rand
Austin Loomer Rand (16 December 1905 – 6 November 1982) was a Canadian zoologist.
He was born in Kentville, Nova Scotia in 1905 and grew up in nearby Wolfville, where he was mentored by the noted local ornithologist Robie W. Tufts. He received a ...
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Pamela C. Rasmussen
Pamela Cecile Rasmussen (born October 16, 1959) is an American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University. She ...
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Ludwig Reichenbach
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museum ...
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Anton Reichenow
Anton Reichenow (1 August 1847 in Charlottenburg – 6 July 1941 in Hamburg) was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.
Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Natural History Museum of Berlin from 1874 to 1921. He w ...
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Pauline Reilly
Pauline Neura Reilly OAM FRAOU (5 December 1918 – 22 April 2011) was an Australian ornithologist and author of children's books.
Biography
Reilly was born (as Pauline Duncan) in Adelaide. Her family moved to Melbourne where she attended ...
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Bernhard Rensch
Bernhard Rensch (21 January 1900 – 4 April 1990) was a German evolutionary biologist and ornithologist who did field work in Indonesia and India. Starting his scientific career with pro-Lamarckian views, he shifted to selectionism and became ...
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John Richardson – Scotland/England
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Charles Wallace Richmond
Charles Wallace Richmond (December 31, 1868 – May 19, 1932) was an American ornithologist. He is best remembered for a compilation of the Latin names of birds that is called the Richmond Index.
Life and work
He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin an ...
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Robert S. Ridgely – US
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John Livzey Ridgway – US
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Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics. He was appointed in 1880 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be the first full-time curator of bi ...
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Joseph Harvey Riley – US
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Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul
Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul FRSE (1878-1953) was a Scottish ornithologist and rare female member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In authorship she is known as L. J. Rintoul and is closely associated with her "constant partner" and co-author E. V ...
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Sidney Dillon Ripley
Sidney Dillon Ripley II (September 20, 1913 – March 12, 2001) was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for 20 years, from 1964 to 1984, leading the institution throu ...
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Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania
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Chandler Robbins
Chandler Seymour Robbins (July 17, 1918 – March 20, 2017) was an American ornithologist. His contributions to the field include co-authorship of an influential field guide to birds, as well as organizing the North American Breeding Bird Survey ...
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Austin Roberts – South Africa
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Thomas Sadler Roberts – US
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Herbert C. Robinson – England/Malaya
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Edward Hearle Rodd
Edward Hearle Rodd (17 March 1810 – 25 January 1880) was an English ornithologist. He was the third son of Edward Rodd, D.D. (1768–1842), by his wife Harriet, (1779–1855) daughter of Charles Rashleigh, of Duporth, Cornwall.
Life
He was ed ...
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), often referred to as Teddy or by his initials, T. R., was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26t ...
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Hermann von Rosenberg – Germany
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Adriaan Joseph van Rossem
Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (December 17, 1892 in Chicago – September 4, 1949) was an American ornithologist of Dutch ancestry. He came from an affluent family where his father died very early in his life. Van Rossem went on to attend both pu ...
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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoologist and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was pres ...
– England
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Frank Rozendaal
Frank Gerard Rozendaal (9 May 1957 – 3 December 2013) was a Dutch ornithologist who in particular did research on the Southeast Asian avifauna. He also contributed to the taxonomy of bats. After field trips in Europe and the Near East he conduc ...
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Eduard Rüppell
Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German naturalist and explorer. Rüppell is occasionally transliterated to "Rueppell" for the English alphabet, due to german orthography.
Biography
Rüppell was b ...
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Karl Russ
Karl Friedrich Otto Ruß (January 14, 1833, Baldenburg – September 29, 1899, Berlin) was a Prussian pharmacist, aviculturist, author of bird-keeping books, and the founding editor of the world's first bird-fancier magazine ''Die Gefiederte Wel ...
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Erich Rutschke – Germany
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Wladyslaw Rydzewski – Poland
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Edward Sabine
Sir Edward Sabine ( ; 14 October 1788 – 26 June 1883) was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier and the 30th president of the Royal Society.
He led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in ...
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John Hall Sage – US
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Finn Salomonsen
Finn Salomonsen (31 January 1909 – 23 April 1983) was a Danish ornithologist. He is best known for his work on the birds of Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is par ...
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Tommaso Salvadori
Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.
Biography
Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethelyn Welby, who was English. His ...
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Osbert Salvin
Osbert Salvin FRS (25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898) was an English naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist best known for co-authoring ''Biologia Centrali-Americana'' (1879–1915) with Frederick DuCane Godman. This was a 52 volume ency ...
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Howard Saunders
Howard Saunders (16 September 1835 – 20 October 1907) was a British businessman, who later in life became a noted ornithologist, specialising in gulls and terns.
Life and work
Saunders was born in London on 16 September 1835. He received his ...
– England
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William Edwin Saunders
William Edwin Saunders (16 August 1861 - 28 June 1943) was a Canadian naturalist. He contributed to the studies of birds and mammals in Canada. He served as the founding president of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. He was a brother of the ...
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William Savage
William Savage (1720 – 27 July 1789) was an English composer, organist, and singer of the 18th century. He sang as a boy treble and alto, a countertenor, and as a bass. He is best remembered for his association with the composer George Fride ...
– US
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Paolo Savi
Paolo Savi (11 July 1798 – 5 April 1871) was an Italian geologist and ornithologist.
Biography
Savi was born in Pisa, the son of Gaetano Savi, professor of botany at the University of Pisa. The younger Savi became assistant lecturer in zoolo ...
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Hans Schaanning – Norway
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Alfred Schifferli – Switzerland
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Eiler Lehn Schiøler
Eiler Lauritz Theodor Lehn Schiøler (30 October 1874 – 13 August 1929) was a Danish ornithologist and banker who came from a family of stockbrokers. He was the author of a major but incomplete multi-volume work on the birds of Denmark published ...
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Hermann Schlegel
Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist.
Early life and education
Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulate ...
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Richard Schodde
Richard Schodde, OAM (born 23 September 1936) is an Australian botanist and ornithologist.
Schodde studied at the University of Adelaide, where he received a BSc (Hons) in 1960 and a PhD in 1970. During the 1960s he was a botanist with the CSI ...
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Ernst Schüz
Ernst Paul Theodor Schüz (24 October 1901 – 8 August 1991) was a German ornithologist and a curator at the natural history museum in Stuttgart. He was known for his extensive work at the Rossiten bird observatory, particularly for his studies on ...
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Philip Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an England, English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological ...
– England
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William Lutley Sclater
William Lutley Sclater (23 September 1863 – 4 July 1944) was a British zoologist and museum director. He was the son of Philip Lutley Sclater and was named after his paternal grandfather, also William Lutley Sclater.
Life
William's mother, J ...
– England
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the " Linnaeus of the A ...
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J. Michael Scott – US
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Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott, (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest i ...
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Henry Seebohm
Henry Seebohm (12 July 1832 – 26 November 1895) was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, oologist and traveller.
Biography
Henry was the oldest son of Benjamin Seebohm (1798–1871) who was a wool merchant at Horton G ...
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Josef Seilern – Austria/Czech
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Prideaux John Selby – England
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George B. Sennett – US
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Pavel Vladimirovich Serebrovsky – Russia/USSR
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William Serle
William Serle (29 July 1912 – 7 October 1992) was a Scottish ornithologist, doctor, and Church of Scotland minister.
Biography
Serle was born in Duddingston manse in Edinburgh in July 1912, the son of the Rev William Serle (1866-1947), min ...
– Scotland
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Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (or Severtsov) – Russia
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Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his career he published several mo ...
– England
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George Shaw – England
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Frederick H. Sheldon – US
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George Ernest Shelley
Captain George Ernest Shelley (15 May 1840 – 29 November 1910) was an English geologist and ornithologist. He was a nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley was educated at the Lycée de Versailles and served a few years in the Gren ...
– England
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Althea Sherman – US
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Hadoram Shirihai – Israel
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Lester L. Short – US
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Charles Sibley
Charles Gald Sibley (August 7, 1917 – April 12, 1998) was an American ornithologist and molecular biologist. He had an immense influence on the scientific classification of birds, and the work that Sibley initiated has substantially altered our u ...
– US
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David Allen Sibley
David Allen Sibley (born October 22, 1961, in Plattsburgh, New York) is an American ornithologist. He is the author and illustrator of '' The Sibley Guide to Birds'', which rivals Roger Tory Peterson's as the most comprehensive guides for Nor ...
– US
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Helmut Sick
Helmut Sick (10 January 1910 – 5 March 1991) was a German- Brazilian ornithologist.
Sick was born in Leipzig, Germany. He emigrated to Brazil in 1939.
A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his mos ...
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Hendrik Cornelis Siebers Hendrik Cornelis Siebers (January 6, 1890 – October 8, 1949) was a Dutch ornithologist who worked mainly in the Dutch East Indies, now part of Indonesia.
Life and work
Siebers was born in Surabaya and became interested in birds from a very earl ...
– Netherlands
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Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4 ...
– French
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Ken Simpson
Kenneth (Ken) Nigel Graham Simpson (1938 – 9 July 2014) was an Australian ornithologist and ornithological writer best known as the coauthor, with artist Nicolas Day, of the Simpson & Day field guide to Australian birds.
Simpson was born in Syd ...
– Australia
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Vasily Nikolaevich Skalon – Russia/USSR
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Cuthbert John Skead
Cuthbert John Skead, also known as "C. J. Skead", "Jack Skead" or "Skeado" (30 April 1912 – 28 May 2006), was a South African ornithology, ornithologist, historian and botany, botanist.
Early life
Born in Port Elizabeth, 30 April 1912, Skead in ...
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Alexander Skutch
Alexander Frank Skutch (May 20, 1904 – May 12, 2004) was a naturalist and writer. He published numerous scientific papers and books about birds and several books on philosophy. He is best remembered ornithologically for his pioneering work o ...
– US
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Tore Slagsvold – Norway
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Andrew Smith – Scotland
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Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (21 April 1775 – 30 June 1851), KG, of Knowsley Hall in Lancashire (styled Lord Stanley from 1776 to 1832, known as Baron Stanley of Bickerstaffe from 1832-4), was a politician, peer, landowner, bu ...
– England
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Bertram E. Smythies
Bertram Evelyn (Bill) Smythies (11 July 1912 (Nainital, India) – 27 June 1999 (Redhill, England)) was a British forester and ornithologist.
Life
Bertram 'Bill' Smythies, the elder brother of John Raymond Smythies, was born in India in 19 ...
– England
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Emilie Snethlage
Maria Emilie Snethlage (April 13, 1868 – November 25, 1929) was a Germany, German-born Brazilian naturalist and ornithologist who worked on the bird fauna of the Amazon. Snethlage collected in Brazil from 1905 until her death. She was the direct ...
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David Snow – England
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Barbara Snow – England
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Jan Sokolowski – Poland
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James Mortimer Southwick – US
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Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg – USSR
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Anders Erikson Sparrman
Anders Sparrman (27 February 1748, Tensta, Uppland – 9 August 1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Biography
left, Miniature of Sparrman at the time of his travels with James Cook. By unknown art ...
– Sweden
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Johann Baptist von Spix
Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German biologist. From his expedition to Brazil, he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. They constitute ...
– Germany
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Isaac Sprague
Isaac Sprague (September 5, 1811 – 1895) was a self-taught landscape, botanical, and ornithological painter. He was America's best known botanical illustrator of his day.
Sprague was born in Hingham, Massachusetts and apprenticed with his unc ...
– US
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Don Stap – US
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David Steadman – US
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Joseph Beal Steere
Joseph Beal Steere (9 February 1842 – 7 December 1940) was an American ornithologist.
Steere was born in Rollin, Michigan, the son of William Millhouse and Elizabeth Cleghorn (Beal) Steere. He received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in ...
– US
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Boris K. Stegmann – Russia/USSR
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Joachim Steinbacher Joachim Steinbacher (18 November 1911 – 31 July 2005) was a German ornithologist and curator at the Senckenberg-Museum in Frankfurt. He was a writer of both scientific and popular books on birds and served as editor of the avicultural periodical ...
– Germany
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Leonhard Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist. Stejneger specialized in vertebrate natural history studies. He gained his greatest reputation with reptil ...
– Norway – US
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Georg Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller (10 March 1709 – 14 November 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and is considered a pioneer of Alaskan natural history.Evans, Howard Ensign. Edward Osborne Wilson (col.) ...
– Germany
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Leo Stepanyan – USSR/Armenia
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James Francis Stephens
James Francis Stephens (16 September 1792 – 22 December 1852) was an English entomologist and naturalist. He is known for his 12 volume '' Illustrations of British Entomology'' (1846) and the ''Manual of British Beetles'' (1839).
Early l ...
– England
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Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic
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Witmer Stone – US
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Robert W. Storer – US
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Erwin Stresemann
Erwin Friedrich Theodor Stresemann (22 November 1889, in Dresden – 20 November 1972, in East Berlin) was a German naturalist and ornithologist. Stresemann was an ornithologist of extensive breadth who compiled one of the first and most compreh ...
– Germany
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Hugh Edwin Strickland
Hugh Edwin Strickland (2 March 1811 – 14 September 1853) was an English geologist, ornithologist, naturalist and systematist. Through the British Association, he proposed a series of rules for the nomenclature of organisms in zoology, known as ...
– England
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Robert Stroud
Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a convicted murderer, American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the most notorious criminals in the United S ...
– US
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Noah Strycker
Noah Keefer Strycker (born February 9, 1986) is an American birdwatcher. In 2015, he set a record for a worldwide Big year of birding, seeing 6,042 of the world's estimated 10,365 bird species at the time (58.3%), becoming the first person to re ...
– US
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Jacob H. Studer – US
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Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm – Germany
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Johann Wilhelm Sturm – Germany
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J. Denis Summers-Smith
James Denis Summers-Smith (25 October 1920 – 5 May 2020) was a British ornithologist and mechanical engineer, a specialist both in sparrows and in industrial tribology.
Early life
Summers-Smith was raised in Glasgow, where he was born in ...
– Scotland/England
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Carl Jakob Sundevall
Carl Jakob Sundevall (22 October 1801, Högestad – 2 February 1875) was a Swedish zoologist.
Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Me ...
– Sweden
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Petr Sushkin – Russia
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Ernst Sutter Ernst Sutter (7 August 1914 – 9 November 1999) was a Swiss ornithologist and curator at the Basel museum. Sutter was a pioneer of radar ornithology, the study of bird migration using radar, in Europe.
Sutter was born in Basel where he studied. I ...
– 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
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*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
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*Miklos Udvardy, Miklós Udvardy – Hungary/Canada
*Tatsuo Utagawa (宇田川竜男) – Japan
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*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
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*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
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*John Xantus – Hungary
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*Yoshimaro Yamashina (山階芳麿) – Japan
*William Yarrell – England
*John Yealland – England
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*Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny – Ukraine/Russia
*John Todd Zimmer – US
*Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy
See also
*List of ornithologists abbreviated names
*List of birdwatchers
References
External links
*http://www.zoonomen.net/bio/ind.html
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