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Otto Kleinschmidt

Otto Kleinschmidt (13 December 1870 – 25 March 1954) was a German ornithologist, theologist and pastor.


Alexander von Homeyer

Homeyer published over 150 articles on ornithology, and was the first to describe the Cyprus Wheatear and the Semi-collared Flycatcher.

Allen Morgan

His interest in ornithology began in 1934 when an English and Latin teacher at Mount Prospect, David Lloyd Garrison, came to class all excited about an Orange-crowned Warbler that he had seen at Totten's Pond in back of the school, a very rare sighting for Waltham.

Anna Levinson

She lives with her husband :de:Hermann Levinson in Starnberg and has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology since 1971, and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology since 2004 in Seewiesen and Erling (Upper Bavaria, Germany).

Arlie William Schorger

Arlie William Schorger (born in Republic, Ohio on September 6, 1884; died May 26, 1972) was a chemical researcher and businessman who also did work in ornithology.

Auguste Ménégaux

Henri Auguste Ménégaux (17 May 1857 – 15 July 1937) was a French ornithologist and malacologist born in Audincourt.

Bernhard Hantzsch

Bernhard Adolph Hantzsch (12 January 1875 – June 1911) was a German ornithologist, Arctic researcher, and writer, notable for his discovery of two Icelandic bird subspecies.

Bötticher

Hans von Boetticher (1886–1958), German zoologist who worked on ornithology and entomology

Charles John Andersson

Karl John (Karl Johan) Andersson (March 4, 1827, in Värmland, Sweden – July 9, 1867 in Angola) was a Swedish explorer, hunter and trader as well as an amateur naturalist and ornithologist.

Charles Vaurie

Charles Vaurie (7 July 1906, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, France – 13 May 1975, Reading, Pennsylvania) was a French-born American ornithologist.

Claud Buchanan Ticehurst

He served in British India, mainly in Karachi but with visits to Basra and Quetta from 23 September 1917 to 14 January 1920, a period when he became a friend of Hugh Whistler who shared an interest in ornithology.

Desmond Nethersole-Thompson

Although brought up in the south of England, from the 1930s he spent most of his life in Scotland and is notable for his contribution to ornithology through his monographs on various birds of the Scottish Highlands, as well as his other writings.

E. Alexander Bergstrom

While he was at Harvard, his passion for ornithology flourished; he birded with noted ornithologists Ludlow Griscom, William H. (Bill) Drury, Wendell Taber, Allan Cruickshank, Chandler Robbins, Charles Foster Batchelder and others in the Nuttall Ornithological Club.

Eerik

Eerik Kumari (1912–1984), Estonian biologist, founder of ornithology and nature conservation in Estonia.

Handbook of the Birds of the World

It has an introductory essay on "Species Concepts and Species Limits in Ornithology" by Jürgen Haffer.

Jacob Christian Schäffer

Jakob or Jacob Christian Schäffer or Schäffern (30 May 1718, Querfurt – 5 January 1790) was a German dean, professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist, ornithologist and inventor.

Jivin' in Be-Bop

The band plays off-camera while dancers perform during the remaining songs, which include "Shaw 'Nuff", "A Night in Tunisia", "Grosvenor Square", and "Ornithology".

Johann Friedrich Naumann

After attending school at Dessau, he returned home and devoted himself to the study of agriculture, botany, geology, and ornithology.

Johann Heinrich Zorn

He played a significant role in the dissemination of Ornithology in Germany even though his ethological did not continue until the 20th century.

Johannes Thienemann

Johannes Thienemann (12 November 1863 – 12 April 1938) was a German ornithologist and a pioneer bird bander who established the Rossitten Bird Observatory, the world’s first.

Joseph Smit

In 1866 he was invited to Britain by Philip Sclater to do the lithography for Sclater's Exotic Ornithology.

Journal of Ornithology

The Journal of Ornithology (formerly Journal für Ornithologie) is a scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft.

Jürgen Haffer

From his studies on the Amazonian avifauna, he authored several papers on Neotropical ornithology and devised his Amazonian refugia theory to explain the rapid diversification of the Neotropical fauna in Pleistocene times.

Kitti Thonglongya

In the field of ornithology Kitti Thonglongya's best known discovery was of the White-eyed River Martin, Pseudochelidon sirintarae, in 1969.

Louis Dufresne

Louis Dufresne (18 January 1752, Champien, near Peronne – 11 October 1832) was a French ornithologist and taxidermist.

Loye and Alden Miller Research Award

The Loye and Alden Miller Research Award was established in 1993 by the Cooper Ornithological Society (COS) to recognize lifetime achievement in ornithological research.

Marco Antonio Serna Díaz

He was curator of birds, amphibians, and reptiles at the Museo de La Salle in Bogotá, and professor of ornithology at the University of Antioquia.

Newsletter for Birdwatchers

Newsletter for Birdwatchers is an Indian periodical of ornithology and birdwatching founded in 1960 by Zafar Futehally, who edited it until 2003.

Pampagrande

An expert in local ornithology (including the endemic Red-fronted Macaw, and herpetology and reptiles, he often makes time to show visitors around as part of his travels about his parish.

Pauline Neura Reilly

2001 - awarded the RAOU's John Hobbs Medal for contributions to amateur ornithology in Australia

Pied Thrush

This image is from Jerdon's 1843-47 Illustrations of Indian Ornithology and was made by S. N. Ward of the Madras Civil Service, the foliage was added by Captain S. Best of the Madras Engineers.

Pietro Locatelli

It includes ornithological, theological, church historical, political, geographical, art historical and mathematical works, and literature on music theory dating back to the 16th century.

Pyotr Kozlov

Kozlov married Elizabeth V. Kozlova, a woman 29 years his junior, who accompanied him on his final journey of exploration as the expedition ornithologist, and who was to publish many monographs and scientific papers on the avifauna of Central Asia.

Recurve-billed Bushbird

The birds were subsequently studied in detail by Laverde, F. Gary Stiles and ornithology students of the Natural Sciences Institute of the National University of Colombia.

Richard C. Banks

(born April 19, 1931) is an American author, ornithologist and Emeritus Research Zoologist on staff with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center run by the U.S. Geological Survey and stationed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Stephen Marchant

His contribution to Australian ornithology was recognised by his being made an Honorary Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1994, and by being awarded the RAOU's John Hobbs Medal in 1997.

Theodore Jasper

His paintings formed the basis for Studer's Popular Ornithology, a late 19th-century work that had several editions with chromolithographic copies of Jasper's art.

Tommy Garnett

Thomas Ronald Garnett OAM (1 January 1915 –22 September 2006) was an English and Australian headmaster, horticulturist, ornithologist and author.

Tubuai Rail

The species was named after David Steadman in recognition of his contributions to Pacific paleo-ornithology and the understanding of the radiation of Gallirallus-like rails.

Valentin Lvovich Bianchi

Bianchi was the Head of the Department of Ornithology at the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd from 1896 to 1920.

Walter Samuel Millard

Salim Ali credited his initiation into ornithology as a young boy to Millard, who helped identify a Yellow-throated Sparrow he had shot.


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