Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin (russian: Серге́й Александрович Бутурлин); 22 September 1872 in
Montreux – 22 January 1938 in
Moscow was a Russian
ornithologist
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.
A scion of one of the oldest families of Russian nobility, Buturlin spent most his life in Russia. His father A.S Buturlin (1845-1916) was physician, writer and Marxist friend of Leo Tolstoy. He went to school in Simbirsk (modern
Ulyanovsk) and studied jurisprudence in
St. Petersburg around 1894–95. He then worked in the legal service but his interest in zoology was so strong that he spent most of his career collecting specimens across Russia and Siberia and describing the results of his observations. Until 1892 he collected in the
Volga region, then in the
Baltic region
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; from 1900 to 1902 on the islands of
Kolguyev and
Novaya Zemlya
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. Between 1904 and 1906 he took part in an expedition to the
Kolyma River in
Siberia, and in 1909 he visited the
Altay Mountains, and he made his final expedition in 1925 on the
Chukchi Peninsula.
He published many important work on the taxonomy and distribution of the palaearctic birds, including:
* ''The Birds of the Kolguyev Island and Novaya Zemlya and the lower part of the Darna'' (1901)
* ''The Birds of the Simbirsk Government'' (1906)
* ''The Birds of the Yenisseisk District'' (1911, with Arkady Yakovlevich Tugarinov (1880–1948))
* A series of manuscripts over the birds of the Far East (1909–1917)
* ''Complete Synopsis of the Birds of the USSR'', in three volumes
* An article on his discovery the breeding places of
Ross's gull (''Rhodostethia rosea'') in northeast Siberia
In 1906 Buturlin became a foreign member of the
British Ornithologists' Union
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; in 1907 he became a corresponding member of the
American Ornithologists' Union
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. In 1918 he joined the zoological museum of the
University of Moscow, and in 1924 he donated his collection of palaearctic birds. He was a pioneer in Russia of the study of the diversity of species and described more than 200 new species of bird.
Works
* Кулики Российской Империи. Дружинина, Tula 1902.
* On the breeding-habits of the rosy gull and the pectoral sandpiper. London 1907.
* Систематические заметки о птицах Северного Кавказа. Machatschkala 1929.
* Определитель промысловых птиц. Советская Азия, Moskau 1933.
* Полный определитель птиц СССР. КИОЦ, Moscow 1934–1941.
* Что и как наблюдать в жизни птиц. 1934.
* Трубконозые птицы. КИОЦ, Moscow 1936.
* Дробовое ружье. 1937.
* Птицы. Moscow 1940.
References
Other sources
* Borodina, O. E. & T. A. Gromova: Сергей Александрович Бутурлин. Ulyanovsk 2002.
* Kozlova, Mariia Mikhailovna & Mirzoëiìan, Eduard Nikolaevich: Сергей Александрович Бутурлин 1872–1938. Наука, Moscow 2001.
* Kozlova, Mariia Mikhailovna: Перо розовой чайки. Ulyanovsk 1997.
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1872 births
1938 deaths
Russian untitled nobility
Russian ornithologists
Novaya Zemlya