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Finn Salomonsen (31 January 1909 – 23 April 1983) was a Danish ornithologist. He is best known for his work on the birds of Greenland. His interest in Greenland began at the age of 16 when he made a trip with Lehn Schioler to the Upernavik District. He obtained a degree in zoology in 1932 and joined as a zoological assistant in the Danish ...
George Edwards – England, "Father of British ornithology" Elon Howard Eaton – US; Scott V. Edwards – US; Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg – Germany; Eugene Eisenmann – US; Walter Elmer Ekblaw – US; Carl R. Eklund – US; Daniel Giraud Elliot – US; Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet – England; Carlo von Erlanger – Germany; Arthur ...
Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist. [a]Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collected himself in the West Indies and North America and South American species discovered but not formally named by Félix de Azara and his translator ...
Richard O. Prum (born 1961) is an evolutionary biologist and ornithologist.He is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, as well as the head curator of vertebrate zoology at the university's Peabody Museum of Natural History.
People who are ornithologists practice ornithology, the study of birds. They may also be birders . Ornithology is a branch of natural history , zoology , and biology .
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. [1] Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds. [2] It has also been an area with a large contribution made by amateurs in terms of time, resources, and financial support.
This list of ornithologists abbreviated names is based on information from the older books on birds. In particular, the books by George Robert Gray and Richard Bowdler Sharpe . When reading these older books, abbreviated names are used that sometimes make little or no sense.
The ornithologist and ethologist David Lack, writing in 1944, praises the book as "a necessary corrective to the ornate and often inaccurate works of the late eighteenth century", [28] adding that Montagu's views on pair formation in songbirds, and the role of birdsong "are remarkably up-to-date."