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Abert's Towhee

The name of this bird commemorates the American ornithologist James William Abert (1820–1897).

Alexander Chisholm

Alexander Hugh Chisholm (1890–1977), Australian journalist, newspaper editor, author and amateur ornithologist

Alfred Brehm

He continued his studies there until September 1846, when he left for Dresden in order to study architecture; however, he stopped after two semesters because Johann Wilhelm von Müller, a well-known ornithologist, was looking for a companion for an African expedition.

Allan Brooks

His father William Edwin Brooks had been a keen ornithologist in India but growing up in a farming household in Canada made his entry into the career of bird art much more difficult than for his contemporary Louis Agassiz Fuertes in the United States of America.

August Carl Eduard Baldamus

August Carl Eduard Baldamus (April 18, 1812, Giersleben, Saxony-Anhalt – October 30, 1893, Coburg) was a German ornithologist.

Auguste Ménégaux

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

Austin Roberts Bird Sanctuary

He was born in Pretoria in 1883, but grew up in Potchefstroom as a minister's son, where the local amateur ornithologist, Thomas Ayres, was his mentor.

Berlepsch's Canastero

The bird's common name and Latin binomial commemorate the German ornithologist and collector Hans von Berlepsch.

Berrick Salome

In 1965, Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897–1970), an eminent ornithologist, and a Berrick Salome resident from 1947, realized that he could build up a picture of the village as it had been in the decades before the First World War, based on the recollections of elderly villagers.

Charles Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857), Prince Canino, French naturalist and ornithologist

Charles Bryant

Charles Ernest William Bryant (1902–1960), Australian barrister and ornithologist

Charles de Souancé

Charles de Souancé (1823–1896) was a French ornithologist and a purser in the French Navy, more precisely "Commissaire de la Marine".

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.

Cory's Shearwater

This bird was named after the American ornithologist Charles B. Cory.

Doug Gibson

John Douglas Gibson (1925/26–1984), usually known as Doug Gibson, Australian ornithologist

Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington

One of her brothers was the ornithologist Viscount Walden, and another the Admiral of the Fleet Lord John Hay.

Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer

Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer (11 November 1809 in Nerdin - 31 May 1889 in Stolp) was a German ornithologist.

Henry Pearson

Henry John Pearson (1850–1913), British ornithologist and explorer of the European Arctic

Hugh Alexander Webster

Hugh Webster was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh FRSE on 2 May 1887 proposed by Sir John Murray, William Evans Hoyle, Robert Gray, Alexander Buchan.

Jean Charles Louis Tardif d'Hamonville

Baron Jean Charles Louis Tardif d'Hamonville (30 August 1830 Saint-Mihiel - 1899), was an eminent French ornithologist and conchologist, and the author of a number of books on natural history.

Johann Friedrich Naumann

His father Johann Andreas Naumann (1744–1826) was a naturalist, and his brother Carl Andreas Naumann (1786–1854) was also an ornithologist.

Johann Heinrich Zorn

Zorn who was heavily influenced by the work, far ahead of its time, of the ornithologist Ferdinand Johann Adam von Pernau (1660-1731) aimed to proclam the divine power to his readers.

Langham baronets

The thirteenth Baronet was a photographer, ornithologist and entomologist and served as High Sheriff of County Fermanagh in 1930.

Lewis County, New York

Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (August 8, 1863 – September 22, 1948) was an American ornithologist and nature writer.

Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855 – March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, ethnographer, and naturalist.

Linton, West Yorkshire

Ian Appleyard (1923–1998), brother of Geoffrey, was a rally driver and ornithologist.

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 1831, Rouen) was a French ornithologist.

Marchant

Stephen Marchant (1912–2003), Australian geologist and amateur ornithologist

Milne-Edwards

Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), French ornithologist and carcinologist.

Musk Lorikeet

The Musk Lorikeet was first described by ornithologist George Shaw in 1790 as Psittacus concinnus, from a collection in the vicinity of Port Jackson in what is now Sydney.

Norman Robinson

Frank Norman Robinson (1911–1997), Australian sound recording technician and ornithologist

Oddie

Bill Oddie, member of The Goodies, ornithologist and television presenter

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.

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.

Richard Liversidge

Richard Liversidge, naturalist, ornithologist and museum director, was born on 17 September 1926 in Blantyre, Nyasaland (now Malawi), and died on 15 September 2003 in Kimberley, South Africa.

Rocky Ridge, Ohio

Kenn Kaufman, an American author and ornithologist who has written several guides to birds and butterflies.

Ronald Eric Johnstone

Ronald Eric Johnstone (born 1949) is an Australian ornithologist who worked for the Western Australian Museum for many years.

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

This growing split between members' attitudes to bird-study came to a head at the 1935 campout at Marlo, eastern Victoria, when a museum ornithologist, George Mack, provocatively shot a Scarlet Robin at its nest, which had been under observation by the party.

Russell Balda

Dr Russell P. Balda is an American ornithologist notable for his studies of the behavioral ecology of the Pinyon Jay as well as for his work on spatial cognition in seed-caching birds.

The Beak of the Finch

The species are so distinct that when Charles Darwin collected them in the islands he thought they were completely different birds, and it was only when he was back in London in 1837 that the ornithologist John Gould revealed that they were closely allied, reinforcing Darwin's growing view that “species are not immutable.”

The Snow Goose: A Story of Dunkirk

The character Rhayader is loosely based on ornithologist, conservationist and painter Peter Scott, who also did the illustrations for the first illustrated English edition of the book, using his first wife Elizabeth Jane Howard as the model for Fritha.

Vincent Serventy

Vincent Noel Serventy AM (6 January 1916 – 8 September 2007) was a noted Australian author, ornithologist and conservationist.

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.

Wattled Smoky Honeyeater

The first bird species found in New Guinea since 1939, the honeyeater was one of over twenty new species discovered by an international team of eleven scientists from Australia, Indonesia and the United States, led by an American ornithologist and Melanesia Conservation International vice-president Bruce Beehler.

Western Bonelli's Warbler

This bird is named after the Italian ornithologist Franco Andrea Bonelli.

William Edwin Brooks

William Edwin Brooks (July 30, 1828, near Dublin, Ireland - January 18, 1899, Mount Forest, Ontario) was a civil engineer in India and an ornithologist.

William More Gabb

He was assisted by Jose Zeledon, who was to become a well known Costa Rican ornithologist.

William Swainson

William John Swainson, FLS, FRS, (1789-1855), English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist

Wilson's Bird-of-paradise

The controversial scientific name of this species was given by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's nephew and a republican idealist, who described the bird from a badly damaged trade specimen purchased by British ornithologist Edward Wilson.


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