List of ornithologists
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This is a list of ornithologists
who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also :Category:Ornithologists.
Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...
who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also :Category:Ornithologists.
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- Humayun AbdulaliHumayun AbdulaliHumayun Abdulali was an Indian ornithologist, and a cousin of Salim Ali. He started with bird egg collection and shikar...
(IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) - Charles Edward Howard Aiken (USA)
- Horace AlexanderHorace AlexanderHorace Gundry Alexander was an English Quaker teacher and writer, pacifist and ornithologist. He was the youngest of four sons of Joseph Gundry Alexander...
(UKUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, later USA) - Wilfred Backhouse AlexanderWilfred Backhouse AlexanderWilfred Backhouse Alexander was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was the brother of Horace Alexander....
(UKUnited KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
) - Salim AliSalim Ali (ornithologist)Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali was an Indian ornithologist and naturalist. Known as the "birdman of India", Salim Ali was among the first Indians to conduct systematic bird surveys across India and his bird books helped develop ornithology...
(India) - Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi (Italy)
- Joel Asaph AllenJoel Asaph AllenJoel Asaph Allen was an American zoologist and ornithologist, born in Springfield, Massachusetts.He studied at Harvard University under Louis Agassiz...
(USA) - Dean AmadonDean AmadonDean Arthur Amadon was an American ornithologist and an authority on birds of prey.Amadon was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Arthur and Mary Amadon. He received a BS from Hobart College in 1934 and a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1947...
(USA) - Jean Victoire AudouinJean Victoire Audouinthumb|Victor AudouinJean Victoire Audouin , sometimes Victor Audouin, was a French naturalist, an entomologist, ornithologist and malacologist.Audouin was born in Paris and studied medicine...
(FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
) - John James AudubonJohn James AudubonJohn James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
(France, USA) - Oliver L. AustinOliver L. AustinOliver Luther Austin Jr. was an ornithologist who wrote the definitive study Birds of the World, eventually published in seven languages. At various times he was Director of the Austin Ornithological Research Center in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Professor of Zoology at Air University and Curator of...
(USA) - John Bob (USA)
- Garry Richard Bagnell (UK)
- Spencer Fullerton BairdSpencer Fullerton BairdSpencer Fullerton Baird was an American ornithologist, ichthyologist and herpetologist. Starting in 1850 he was assistant-secretary and later secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C...
(USA) - Luis Felipe Baptista (USA)
- Richard Mancliffe BarringtonRichard Mancliffe BarringtonRichard Mancliffe Barrington was an Irish botanist and ornithologist.Barrington was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he gained an M.A.. He wrote reports on the flora of Lough Ree, Lough Erne, Ben Bulben, Tory Island and the Blaskett all published by the Royal Irish Academy. Later he...
(Ireland) - Charles BendireCharles BendireMajor Charles Emil Bendire was a United States Army soldier and noted ornithologist and oologist. The Bendire's Thrasher is named for him.-Early life:...
(USA) - E. Alexander BergstromE. Alexander BergstromE. Alexander Bergstrom was an ornithologist, scientific journal editor, and conservationist, doing all of his work in these fields as a volunteer.-Life:...
(USA) - Thomas BewickThomas BewickThomas Bewick was an English wood engraver and ornithologist.- Early life and apprenticeship :Bewick was born at Cherryburn House in the village of Mickley, in the parish of Ovingham, Northumberland, England, near Newcastle upon Tyne on 12 August 1753...
(UK) - Eugene P. Bicknell (USA)
- Biswamoy BiswasBiswamoy BiswasBiswamoy Biswas was an Indian ornithologist who was born in Calcutta, the son of a professor of Geology. In 1947, he was awarded a three year fellowship by Sunderlal Hora, then director of the Zoological Survey of India...
(India) - Johann Heinrich BlasiusJohann Heinrich BlasiusJohann Heinrich Blasius was a German zoologist. In 1836, he was appointed as a professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. In 1840, he founded the Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Braunschweig...
(GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - Edward BlythEdward BlythEdward Blyth was an English zoologist and pharmacist. He was one of the founders of zoology in India....
(UK) - Charles Lucien BonaparteCharles Lucien BonaparteCharles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist.-Biography:...
(France) - James BondJames Bond (ornithologist)James Bond was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy, James Bond.-Biography:...
(USA) - Richard M. Bond (USA)
- Franco Andrea BonelliFranco Andrea BonelliFranco Andrea Bonelli was an Italian ornithologist, entomologist and collector.-Life:Very little is known about the early life of Bonelli: he was born in Cuneo and was interested from an early age in the fauna which surrounded him, making collecting trips, preparing specimens and noting his...
(ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
) - Christian Ludwig BrehmChristian Ludwig BrehmChristian Ludwig Brehm was a German pastor and ornithologist. He was the father of Alfred Brehm.Brehm was born near Gotha, and studied at the University of Jena. In 1813 he became the minister at Renthendorf, a village sixty miles south of Leipzig, where he remained until his death...
, (Germany) - Thomas Mayo BrewerThomas Mayo BrewerThomas Mayo Brewer was an American naturalist.Mayo is best known as the joint author, with Baird and Ridgway, of A History of North American Birds , which was the first attempt since John James Audubon's to complete the study of American ornithology.Brewer was born in Boston...
(USA) - William BrewsterWilliam Brewster (ornithologist)William Brewster was an American ornithologist. He was the curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1885 until his death. He was the co-founder, with Elliott Coues and Joel Asaph Allen, of the American Ornithologists' Union in 1883...
(USA) - Thomas BrowneThomas BrowneSir Thomas Browne was an English author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including medicine, religion, science and the esoteric....
(UK) Early British amateur (17th C) - Walter BullerWalter BullerWalter Lawry Buller KCMG was a New Zealand lawyer, naturalist and ornithologist.Buller was the author of A History of the Birds of New Zealand , with illustrations by John Gerrard Keulemans. In 1882 he produced the Manual of the Birds of New Zealand as a cheaper, popular alternative...
(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...
) - John CassinJohn CassinJohn Cassin was an American ornithologist.He is considered to be one of the giants of American ornithology, and was America's first taxonomist, describing 198 birds not previously mentioned by Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon...
(USA) - Frank ChapmanFrank ChapmanFrank Michler Chapman was a U.S. ornithologist and pioneering writer of field guides.Chapman was born in West Englewood, New Jersey and attended Englewood Academy. He joined the staff of the American Museum of Natural History in 1888 as assistant to Joel Asaph Allen...
(USA) - Phillip ClanceyPhillip ClanceyDr Phillip Alexander Clancey DSc was a leading authority on the ornithology of South Africa.- Background and education :Phillip Clancey was born, brought up and educated in Glasgow, Scotland...
(South Africa) - Charles B. CoryCharles B. CoryCharles Barney Cory was an American ornithologist and golfer.-Biography:Cory was born in Boston. His father had made a fortune from a large import business, ensuring that his son never had to work. At the age of sixteen Cory developed an interest in ornithology and began a skin collection...
(USA) - Elliott CouesElliott CouesElliott Coues was an American army surgeon, historian, ornithologist and author.Coues was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He graduated at Columbian University, Washington, D.C., in 1861, and at the Medical school of that institution in 1863...
(USA) - Reuthven Deane (USA)
- Elio Augusto Di Carlo (Italy)
- Charles-Eusèbe DionneCharles-Eusèbe DionneCharles-Eusèbe Dionne , also known as Charles Eusebe or C. E. Dionne, was a French Canadian naturalist and taxidermist. He is considered the first professional French Canadian ornithologist...
(CA) - Jean DorstJean DorstProfessor Dr Jean Dorst was a French ornithologist.Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. In 1947 he joined the staff of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle...
(France) - Henry Eeles DresserHenry Eeles DresserHenry Eeles Dresser was an English businessman and ornithologist.Henry Dresser was born in Thirsk where his father was the manager of the bank which had been set up by his grandfather...
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- George Edwards (UK), the "Father of British ornithology"
- Elon Howard EatonElon Howard EatonElon Howard Eaton [sometimes "Elon Eton"] was an American ornithologist, scholar, and author.He was born in the Town of Collins near Springville, New York, the son of Lucien Eaton and Sophie Newton...
(USA) - Eugene Eisenmann (USA)
- George Fenwick (USA)
- Otto FinschOtto FinschFriedrich Hermann Otto Finsch was a German ethnographer, naturalist and colonial explorer.-Biography:...
(Germany) - John W. Fitzpatrick (USA)
- Jon Fjeldså (Denmark)
- Jim FleggJim FleggDr Jim Flegg OBE is a British ornithologist and writer on bird-related matters. He is also a former director of the British Trust for Ornithology. He joined the Rochester and District Natural History Society as a junior member. As an ornithologist, he became well-known, and became president of Kent...
(UK) - Kilian Frensch (Germany)
- Johan Dalgas Frisch (Brazil)
- William GambelWilliam GambelWilliam Gambel was an American naturalist and collector.Gambel was born in Philadelphia. In 1838 he travelled with the naturalist Thomas Nuttall on a collecting trip to North Carolina. In March 1841 he set off alone to collect plants for Nuttall. He travelled west, taking a more southerly route to...
(USA) - Heinrich Gaetke (Germany)
- Frank GillFrank Gill (ornithologist)Frank Bennington Gill is an American ornithologist with worldwide research interests and birding experience. He is perhaps best known as the author of the textbook Ornithology , which is considered the leading textbook in the field.Gill was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey...
(USA) - Theodore GillTheodore GillTheodore Nicholas Gill was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist and librarian.Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural history. He was associated with J...
(USA) - Robert GillmorRobert GillmorRobert Gillmor is an ornithologist, artist, illustrator, author and editor, from England. He is a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists and has been its Secretary, Chairman and President...
(UK) - Frederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist....
(UK) - Derek GoodwinDerek GoodwinDerek Goodwin was a British ornithologist who wrote a series of what The Times called "definitive works" on estrildid finches, crows and pigeons. He was considered to be an expert on bird behaviour....
(UK) - Philip Henry GossePhilip Henry GossePhilip Henry Gosse was an English naturalist and popularizer of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology...
(UK) - John GouldJohn GouldJohn Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
(UK) - George Robert GrayGeorge Robert GrayGeorge Robert Gray FRS was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years...
(UK) - John Edward GrayJohn Edward GrayJohn Edward Gray, FRS was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray ....
(UK; brother of the above) - Andrew Jackson GraysonAndrew Jackson GraysonAndrew Jackson Grayson was an American ornithologist and artist.Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope , which he considered to be a completion of John James Audubon's Birds of America...
(USA) - Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of FallodonEdward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of FallodonEdward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon KG, PC, FZL, DL , better known as Sir Edward Grey, Bt, was a British Liberal statesman. He served as Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, the longest continuous tenure of any person in that office...
(UK) - Bernhard HantzschBernhard HantzschBernhard Adolph Hantzsch was a German ornithologist, Arctic researcher, and writer, notable for his discovery of two Icelandic bird subspecies...
(Germany) - Ernst HartertErnst HartertErnst Johann Otto Hartert was a German ornithologist. Hartert was born in Hamburg. He was employed by Lionel Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator of his private museum at Tring from 1892 to 1929....
(Germany) - Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of TweeddaleArthur Hay, 9th Marquess of TweeddaleColonel Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale , known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and between 1862 and 1876 as Viscount Walden, was a Scottish soldier and ornithologist. He was born at Yester, Gifford, East Lothian. He served as a soldier in India and the Crimea. He succeeded his father to the...
(UK) - George Morrison Reid HenryGeorge Morrison Reid HenryGeorge Morrison Reid Henry was an entomologist and ornithologist in Sri Lanka.He was born at Goatfell Estate, Kandapola, Sri Lanka where his father, Charles Reid Henry, managed tea estates. He was one of eleven children and was educated at home by his older sisters...
(UK)(Ceylon) - Henry Wetherbee HenshawHenry Wetherbee HenshawHenry Wetherbee Henshaw was an American ornithologist.Henshaw studied at Cambridge High School where he met William Brewster. In 1869 he was forced to give up school due to ill health, and went on a collecting trip to Louisiana. This marked the start of his career as a field naturalist.In 1870...
(USA) - Theodor Von HeuglinTheodor von HeuglinMartin Theodor von Heuglin , was a German explorer and ornithologist.-Biography:...
(Germany) - Eliot Howard (UK)
- William Henry HudsonWilliam Henry HudsonWilliam Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.- Life and work :Hudson was born in the Quilmes, a borough of the greater Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, son of settlers of U.S. origin...
(Argentina, UK) - Allan Octavian HumeAllan Octavian HumeAllan Octavian Hume was a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist in British India. He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, a political party that was later to lead the Indian independence movement...
(UK) (India) - Rob HumeRob HumeRobert `Rob` Hume is an English ornithologist, author and journalist specialising in avian and natural history subjects. From Spring 1989 , until Summer 2009 Robert `Rob` Hume is an English ornithologist, author and journalist specialising in avian and natural history subjects. From Spring 1989...
(UK) - Syed Abdulla HussainS. A. HussainSyed Abdulla Hussain was an Indian ornithologist. He is best known for the work he undertook at the Bombay Natural History Society along with Salim Ali...
(India) - William Hutton (USA)
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- Jerome Jackson (USA)
- Helen F. James (USA)
- Thomas JeffersonThomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
(USA) - Thomas C. JerdonThomas C. JerdonThomas Caverhill Jerdon was a British physician, zoologist and botanist. He is best remembered for his pioneering works on the ornithology of India...
(UK) (India) - Janet KearJanet KearJanet Kear , OBE, was an English ornithologist.Kear was born in London, and was educated at Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks, Caspar Junior College, Wyoming, King's College London and then Girton College, Cambridge where she obtained her Ph.D...
(UK) - Jared Kirtland (USA)
- lhami Kiziroğlu
(TR) - Otto KleinschmidtOtto KleinschmidtOtto Kleinschmidt was a German theologist, pastor and ornithologist. He introduced a typological species concept into German ornithology. His Formenkreis theory influenced the early ideas of Erwin Stresemann. Others have considered him one of the first biogeographers...
(Germany) - Maria Koepcke (Peru)
- Niels KrabbeNiels KrabbeNiels Kaare Krabbe is an ornithologist and bird conservationist based at the Vertebrate Department of the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, researching various aspects of ornithology, especially bioacoustics and conservation; systematics and altitudinal replacements of Scytalopus...
(Denmark) - Nagamichi KurodaNagamichi Kurodawas a Japanese ornithologist. His works included Birds of the Island of Java and Parrots of the World in Life Colours . He described the Crested Shelduck in 1917....
(JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
) - David LackDavid LackDavid Lambert Lack FRS, was a British evolutionary biologist who made contributions to ornithology, ecology and ethology. His book on the finches of the Galapagos Islands was a landmark work.- Early life :...
(UK) - Chester Lamb (USA)
- John LathamJohn Latham (ornithologist)John Latham was an English physician, naturalist and author. He was born at Eltham in Kent, and was the eldest son of John Latham, a surgeon there, and his mother was a descendant of the Sothebys, in Yorkshire....
(UK) - George Newbold LawrenceGeorge Newbold LawrenceGeorge Newbold Lawrence was an American businessman and amateur ornithologist.Lawrence conducted Pacific bird surveys for Spencer Fullerton Baird and John Cassin, and the three men co-authored Birds of North America in 1858.Lawrence left his collection of 8,000 bird skins to the American Museum of...
(USA) - Yossi Leshem (Israel)
- Thomas Lincoln (USA)
- José Fernando Pacheco (Brazil)
- Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron LilfordThomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron LilfordThomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford , was a British aristocrat and ornithologist.Lilford was the eldest son of Thomas Powys, 3rd Baron Lilford, and Hon. Mary Elizabeth Fox, daughter of Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland. He succeeded his father as fourth Baron in 1861...
(UK) - Konrad LorenzKonrad LorenzKonrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch...
(AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
) - Gail Carter Lott (UK)
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- William MacGillivrayWilliam MacGillivrayWilliam MacGillivray FRSE MWS was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.MacGillivray was born in Old Aberdeen and brought up on the island of Harris. He returned to Aberdeen where he attended King's College, graduating MA in 1815. He studied medicine, but did not complete the course...
(UK) - Wolfgang MakatschWolfgang MakatschWolfgang Makatsch was a German ornithologist and oologist. He wrote numerous books about birds and bird identification.Many of his works were translated into other languages and he contributed to Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia.-Life and work:Makatsch was a staff member at both the Heligoland...
Germany - Charles Henry Tilson MarshallCharles Henry Tilson MarshallCharles Henry Tilson Marshall was a British Army Officer, serving in the Punjab, India. In his spare time he collected birds in the Punjab and the Himalayas, and sent these to Allan Octavian Hume. He was the brother of George Frederick Leycester Marshall, with whom he published ornithological...
(India/UK) - Gregory MathewsGregory MathewsGregory Macalister Mathews CBE was an Australian amateur ornithologist.Mathews made his fortune in mining shares, and moved to England around 1900....
(AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
) - Ernst MayrErnst MayrErnst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist...
(USA) - John Porter McCown (USA)
- Charles McKayCharles McKayCharles Leslie McKay was an American naturalist and explorer.McKay was born at Appleton, Wisconsin. He studied under David Starr Jordan at Appleton Collegiate Institute, Butler University and Indiana University, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Science...
(USA) - Chris MeadChris MeadChristopher John Mead was a popular British ornithologist, author and broadcaster, and an influential member of the British Trust for Ornithology ....
(UK) - Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen (UK)
- C. Hart Merriam (USA)
- Olivier MessiaenOlivier MessiaenOlivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
(France) - Henry Leonard Meyer (UK)
- Rodolphe Meyer de SchauenseeRodolphe Meyer de SchauenseeRodolphe Meyer de Schauensee was an American ornithologist.He was born in Rome, and his family moved to the United States in 1913. He was curator of birds at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for nearly fifty years. He was particularly noted for his study of South American birds...
(USA) - Robert Thomas MooreRobert Thomas MooreRobert Thomas Moore was an American businessman, an independent ornithologist, a philanthropist, and the founder and for some years the editor-in-chief of the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards...
(USA) - Burt MonroeBurt MonroeBurt Leavelle Monroe, Jr was an American ornithologist, a member of the American Ornithologists' Union since 1953, as Director of the Commission of classification and nomenclature and president from 1990 to 1992.- His studies :Burt L...
(USA) - George Montagu (UK)
- Guy MountfortGuy MountfortGuy Mountfort OBE was an English advertising executive, amateur ornithologist and conservationist.-Biography:...
(UK) - Robert Cushman MurphyRobert Cushman MurphyRobert Cushman Murphy was an American ornithologist and former Lamont curator of birds for the American Museum of Natural History....
(USA) - Alfred NewtonAlfred NewtonAlfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907...
(UK) - Margaret Morse NiceMargaret Morse NiceMargaret Morse Nice was an American ornithologist who made an extensive study of the life history of the Song Sparrow and was author of Studies in the Life History of the Song Sparrow .-Early life:...
(USA) - Max Nicholson (UK)
- Bill OddieBill OddieWilliam "Bill" Edgar Oddie OBE is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who became famous as one of The Goodies....
(UK) - Storrs L. OlsonStorrs L. OlsonStorrs Lovejoy Olson is an American biologist and ornithologist from the Smithsonian Institution. He is one of the world's foremost avian paleontologists....
(USA) - Peter Simon PallasPeter Simon PallasPeter Simon Pallas was a German zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia.- Life and work :Pallas was born in Berlin, the son of Professor of Surgery Simon Pallas. He studied with private tutors and took an interest in natural history, later attending the University of Halle and the University...
(Germany) - Theodore A. Parker IIITheodore A. Parker IIITheodore A. "Ted" Parker III was an American ornithologist who specialized in the Neotropics. He "was widely considered the finest field birder / ornithologist that the world had ever seen." .-Biography:...
(USA) - Kenneth C. Parkes (USA)
- Thomas Gilbert PearsonThomas Gilbert PearsonThomas Gilbert Pearson , usually known as T. Gilbert Pearson, was an American conservationist and one of the first faculty members at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was a founder of the National Association of Audubon Societies, which became the National Audubon...
(USA) - James Lee PetersJames Lee PetersJames Lee Peters was an American ornithologist.Peters was Curator of Birds at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard University...
(USA) - Roger Tory PetersonRoger Tory PetersonRoger Tory Peterson , was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement.-Background:...
(USA) - William Henry PhelpsWilliam Henry PhelpsWilliam Henry Phelps was an American ornithologist and businessman.-Early life:Born in New York City to Dudley F. Phelps, and of Louise Lander Prince Phelps, he attended Milton Academy and Harvard College...
(USA) - William H. Phelps, Jr. (Venezuela)
- Graham PizzeyGraham PizzeyGraham Martin Pizzey AM was a noted Australian author, photographer and ornithologist. He was born and grew up in Melbourne and was educated at Geelong Grammar School. After leaving school he worked in his family's leather business, while studying part-time and publishing articles and...
(Australia) - Poornachandra TejaswiPoornachandra TejaswiKuppali Puttappa Poornachandra Tejaswi was a prominent Kannada writer and novelist who has made a great impession in "Navya" period of Kannada literature and inaugurated the bandaya or "protest literature" with his short-story collection Abachoorina Post Offisu.At early stages of his writing...
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- James Van Remsen (USA)
- Charles Wallace RichmondCharles Wallace RichmondCharles Wallace Richmond was an American ornithologist. He is best remembered for a compilation of the Latin names of birds that is called the Richmond Index.-Life and work:...
(USA) - Robert S. RidgelyRobert Ridgely (ornithologist)Dr. Robert S. Ridgely is an American ornithologist, specializing in the neotropics. He is the co-author of three books on neotropical ornithology: the field guide The Birds of Panama , The Birds of Ecuador , and the The Birds of South America , of which two monumental volumes , covering the...
(USA) - John Livzey RidgwayJohn Livzey RidgwayJohn Livzey Ridgway was an American scientific illustrator and brother of ornithologist Robert Ridgway. John collaborated with his brother on ornithological illustration and published his own works...
(USA) - Robert Ridgway (USA)
- Sidney Dillon RipleySidney Dillon RipleySidney Dillon Ripley was an American ornithologist and wildlife conservationist. He served as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1964-1984.-Biography:...
(USA) - Edward Hearle RoddEdward Hearle RoddEdward Hearle Rodd , ornithologist, born at the vicarage of St Just in Roseland, Cornwall, on 17 March 1810, was third son of Edward Rodd, D.D. , by his wife Harriet, daughter of Charles Rashleigh, esq., of Duporth, Cornwall.-Life:...
, (UK) - Theodore RooseveltTheodore RooseveltTheodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...
(USA) - Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron RothschildWalter Rothschild, 2nd Baron RothschildLionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild FRS , a scion of the Rothschild family, was a British banker, politician, and zoologist.-Biography:...
(UK) - Sir Edward SabineEdward SabineGeneral Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer.Two branches of Sabine's work in particular deserve very high credit: Determination of the length of the seconds pendulum, a simple pendulum whose time period on the surface of the Earth is two...
(UK) - Finn SalomonsenFinn SalomonsenFinn Salomonsen 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...
(Denmark) - Tommaso SalvadoriTommaso SalvadoriCount Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethel. He took an early interest in birds and published a catalogue of the birds of Sardinia in 1862...
(Italy) - Paolo SaviPaolo SaviPaolo Savi , was an Italian geologist and ornithologist.Savi was born in Pisa, son of Gaetano Savi, professor of Botany at the University of Pisa. The younger Savi became assistant-lecturer on zoology at the university in 1820, was appointed professor in 1823, and lectured also on geology...
(Italy) - Hermann SchlegelHermann SchlegelHermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...
(Germany/Netherlands) - Peter ScottPeter ScottSir Peter Markham Scott, CH, CBE, DSC and Bar, MID, FRS, FZS, was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer and sportsman....
(UK) - Lester L. ShortLester L. ShortLester Leroy Short is an American ornithologist. His main research field is the order Piciformes.-Biography:Short was born in Port Chester, New York. In 1955 he graduated to Bachelor of Science at the Cornell University...
(USA) - 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...
(USA) - Helmut SickHelmut SickHelmut Sick , was a German-Brazilian ornithologist.A prominent ornithologist in Brazil, Sick published more than 200 papers, including his most influential work: Ornitologia Brasileira, Uma Introdução , later translated into English as Birds in Brazil: A Natural History...
(Brazil) - Alexander SkutchAlexander SkutchDoctor Alexander Frank Skutch was a naturalist and writer. He published numerous scientific papers and books about birds and several books on philosophy. He is best remembered ornithologically for his pioneering work on helpers at the nest.-Biography:Alexander Skutch was born in Baltimore, Maryland...
(USA) - Bertram E. SmythiesBertram E. SmythiesBertram Evelyn Smythies was a British forester and ornithologist.Smythies was born in India, to E. A. Smythies, silviculturist of Uttar Pradesh and, in the 1940s, Chief Conservator of Forest of Nepal, and his wife, Olive, well-known author of The Tiger Lady...
(UK) - David SnowDavid SnowDavid William Snow was a celebrated English ornithologist born in Windermere, Westmorland.-Career and personal life:He won a scholarship to Eton and started there in 1938 just before his 14th birthday...
and Barbara Snow (UK) - Isaac SpragueIsaac SpragueIsaac Sprague was a self-taught landscape, botanical, and ornithological painter. He was America's best known botanical illustrator of his day....
(USA) - Leonhard Stejneger (USA)
- Georg Steller (Germany)
- Ferdinand StoliczkaFerdinand StoliczkaFerdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology. He died of high altitude sickness during an expedition across the Himalayas.-Early life:Stoliczka was born at the lodge Zámeček near Kroměříž in Moravia...
(Czech Republic) - Robert W. StorerRobert W. StorerDr Robert W. Storer was an American ornithologist known for his work on avian systematics and evolution, especially of grebes. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
(USA) - Hugh Edwin StricklandHugh Edwin StricklandHugh Edwin Strickland , was an English geologist, ornithologist,naturalist, and systematist.Strickland was born at Reighton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. He was the second son of Henry Eustatius Strickland of Apperley, Gloucestershire, by his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund Cartwright, D.D. [q...
(UK) - William Swainson (UK)
- Charles SwinhoeCharles SwinhoeColonel Charles Swinhoe was an English naturalist and lepidopterist, who served in the British Army in India...
(UK) - Robert SwinhoeRobert SwinhoeRobert Swinhoe FRS , was an English naturalist who worked as a Consul in Formosa. He discovered many Southeast Asian birds and several, such as Swinhoe's Pheasant, are named after him.-Biography:...
(UK) - Colonel W. H. Sykes (UK)
- Coenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob TemminckCoenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...
(NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
) - Johannes ThienemannJohannes ThienemannJohannes Thienemann was a German ornithologist and a pioneer bird bander who established the Rossitten Bird Observatory, the world’s first....
(Germany) - Arthur Landsborough ThomsonArthur Landsborough ThomsonSir Arthur Landsborough Thomson was a Scottish ornithologist.He was president of the British Ornithologists' Union from 1948 to 1955.-Bibliography:*A New Dictionary of Birds , 1964...
(UK) - Samuel TickellSamuel TickellColonel Samuel Richard Tickell was a British army officer, artist and ornithologist in India and Burma.Tickell was born at Cuttack in India. He was educated in England, returning at the age of nineteen to join the Bengal Native Infantry. He served in Bengal until 1840, when he was made commander...
(IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) - Niko Tinbergen (Netherlands)
- John Kirk TownsendJohn Kirk TownsendJohn Kirk Townsend was an American naturalist, ornithologist and collector.Townsend was born in Philadelphia and trained as a physician and pharmacist. He developed an interest in natural history in general and bird collecting in particular...
(USA) - Henry Baker TristramHenry Baker TristramThe Reverend Henry Baker Tristram FRS was an English clergyman, Biblical scholar, traveller and ornithologist.Tristram was born at Eglingham vicarage, near Alnwick, Northumberland, and studied at Durham School and Lincoln College, Oxford. In 1846 he was ordained a priest, but he suffered from...
(UK) - Bernard TuckerBernard TuckerBernard William Tucker was an English ornithologist. He was lecturer in zoology at Oxford University, a long-time editor of British Birds and one of the authors of The Handbook of British Birds...
(UK) - Marmaduke TunstallMarmaduke TunstallMarmaduke Tunstall was an English ornithologist and collector. He was the author of Ornithologica Britannica , probably the first British work to use binomial nomenclature....
(UK) - S. Levent Turan
(TR) - William Turner (UK)
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- Louis Jean Pierre VieillotLouis Jean Pierre VieillotLouis Jean Pierre Vieillot was a French ornithologist.Vieillot described a large number of birds for the first time, especially those he encountered during the time he spent in the West Indies and North America, and 26 genera established by him are still in use...
(France) - Jacques Van ImpeJacques Van ImpeJacques Van Impe is a Belgian academic widely published in the field of ornithology. His research is particularly focused on reproduction in the Greater White-fronted Goose, the Bean Goose , the Eurasian Oystercatcher, the Pied Avocet, the Northern Lapwing, the Black-tailed Godwit, and the Common...
(Belgium) - Keith VinicombeKeith VinicombeKeith E. Vinicombe is a British ornithologist and writer on bird identification.Vinicombe is best-known for his first book, the Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification...
(UK) - Karel VoousKarel VoousKarel Hendrik Voous PhD, MA was a Dutch ornithologist and author.He was Secretary-General and Honorary President of the International Ornithological Committee.-Books in English:...
(Netherlands) - Will WagstaffWill WagstaffWilliam Wagstaff, commonly known as Will Wagstaff, is a leading ornithologist and naturalist in the Isles of Scilly, and also an author. His popular guided wildlife walks have made him both a well-known and popular figure in the islands. Originally from South Wales, Wagstaff has lived on the Isles...
(UK) - Lawrence H. Walkinshaw (USA)
- George WaterstonGeorge WaterstonGeorge Waterston was an ornithologist and conservationist in Scotland. He was Director of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Scotland. He lived at 21 Regent Terrace, Edinburgh where he co-founded what was the Midlothian Ornithologists' Club and is now the Scottish Ornithologists'...
(UK) - Andy Webb (UK)
- Hugo WeigoldHugo WeigoldMax Hugo Weigold was a German zoologist and a pioneer bird bander who established the Heligoland Bird Observatory, one of the world’s first.Weigold was born in Dresden. He studied natural sciences and geography in Jena and Leipzig...
(Germany) - Alexander WetmoreAlexander WetmoreFrank Alexander Wetmore was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist.-Life:Wetmore studied at the University of Kansas...
(USA) - Hugh WhistlerHugh WhistlerHugh Whistler , F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. was an English ornithologist who worked in India. He wrote one of the first field guides to Indian birds and documented the distributions of in numerous notes in several journals apart from describing several new subspecies.-Life and career:Whistler was born in...
(India) - Gilbert WhiteGilbert WhiteGilbert White FRS was a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist.-Life:White was born in his grandfather's vicarage at Selborne in Hampshire. He was educated at the Holy Ghost School and by a private tutor in Basingstoke before going to Oriel College, Oxford...
(UK) - Francis WillughbyFrancis Willughbythumbnail|200px|right|A page from the Ornithologia, showing [[Jackdaw]], [[Chough]], [[European Magpie|Magpie]] and [[Eurasian Jay|Jay]], all [[Corvidae|crows]]....
(UK) - Alexander WilsonAlexander WilsonAlexander Wilson was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator.Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland, the son of an illiterate distiller. In 1779 he was apprenticed as a weaver. His main interest at this time was in writing poetry...
(Scotland, USA) - Marie WinnMarie WinnMarie Winn, a journalist, author and birdwatcher, is known for her books and articles on the birds of Central Park, her Wall Street Journal ornithology column and her role in the quiz show scandals of the 1950s...
(USA) - Harry Witherby (UK)
- Hans Edmund WoltersHans Edmund WoltersHans Edmund Wolters was a German ornithologist from Duisburg. In 1960, he became an associate member of the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Institute and Museum in Bonn. He became head of the museum's Department of Ornithology in 1973. He was one of the first European ornithologists to use a...
(Germany) - William YarrellWilliam YarrellWilliam Yarrell was an English bookseller and naturalist.Yarrell is best known as the author of The History of British Fishes and The History of British Birds . The latter went into several editions and was the standard reference work for a generation of British ornithologists...
(UK) - John Todd ZimmerJohn Todd ZimmerJohn Todd Zimmer was a leading American ornithologist.A graduate of University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he took an early interest in both entomology and ornithology...
(USA) - Giuseppe ZinanniGiuseppe ZinanniCount Giuseppe Zinanni or Ginanni was an Italian naturalist.-Biography:...