Burt Monroe
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Burt Leavelle Monroe, Jr (25 August 1930 - 14 May 1994, Louisville, Kentucky
) was an American ornithologist, a member of the American Ornithologists' Union
since 1953, as Director of the Commission of classification and nomenclature (1981-1994) and president from 1990 to 1992.
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
) was an American ornithologist, a member of the American Ornithologists' Union
American Ornithologists' Union
The American Ornithologists' Union is an ornithological organization in the USA. Unlike the National Audubon Society, its members are primarily professional ornithologists rather than amateur birders...
since 1953, as Director of the Commission of classification and nomenclature (1981-1994) and president from 1990 to 1992.
His studies
Burt L. Monroe was locally (Louisville, KY) known as a UFO researcher, appearing on the Milton Metz radio talk show as a regular guest to cover this topic.His career
- 1959 : Thesis at Louisiana State University (LSU), participaation in a number of field studies in New ZealandNew ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
and AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
(1961), - 1965 : Assistant professor of biology at the University of Louisville,
- 1970-1993 : Director of the department of biology at the University of Louisville
His work
- 1990 : His main work- Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World, in collaboration with Charles SibleyCharles SibleyCharles Gald Sibley 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 understanding of the evolutionary history of modern birds.Sibley's taxonomy has been a...
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