Erhard F. Boehm (1911–1994) was an Australian

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and amateur

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ancestry. He was born in

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, and lived most of his life in the same area. In the 1950s he was the South Australian representative on the RAOU Standing Committee on Conservation. From the 1940s until his death he wrote over 150 articles on birds for the ''

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'', the ''

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'', the '' Australian Bird Bander'', '' Corella'' and other publications, including reviews on material in German.

References

*Seymour, John. (1995). Obituary. E.F. Boehm 1911–1994. ''Emu'' 95: 74. Australian ornithologists 1911 births 1994 deaths Australian people of German descent 20th-century Australian zoologists {{Australia-ornithologist-stub