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This is a list of
ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also
:Ornithologists.
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John Abbot – US
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Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US
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William Louis Abbott – US
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Humayun Abdulali — India
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Joseph H. Acklen – US
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Humayun Abdulali – India
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Jon E. Ahlquist – US
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Prince Akishino (皇嗣秋筱宮文仁親王) – Japan
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Luigi d'Albertis – Italy
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John Warren Aldrich – US
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Boyd Alexander – England
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Christopher James Alexander – England
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Horace Alexander – England/US
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Wilfred Backhouse Alexander
Wilfrid Backhouse Alexander (4 February 1885 – 18 December 1965) was an English ornithologist and entomologist. He was a brother of Horace Alexander and Christopher James Alexander.
Alexander was born at Croydon in Surrey, England in 1885 ...
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Salim Ali – India
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Arthur Augustus Allen – US
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Elsa Guerdrum Allen – US
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Glover Morrill Allen – US
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Joel Asaph Allen
Joel Asaph Allen (July 19, 1838 – August 29, 1921) was an American zoology, zoologist, mammalogy, mammalogist, and ornithology, ornithologist. He became the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union, the first curator of birds and ma ...
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Robert Porter Allen – US
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György Almásy – Hungary/Austria
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Per Alström – Sweden
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Bernard Altum – Germany
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Dean Amadon – US
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George W. Archibald – Canada/US
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John Ash – England
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Edwin Ashby – Australia
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Henry Philemon Attwater – England/Canada/US
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Yves Aubry – Canada
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Jean Victoire Audouin – France
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John James Audubon
John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin, April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American Autodidacticism, self-trained artist, natural history, naturalist, and ornithology, ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornitho ...
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Oliver L. Austin – US
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Félix de Azara – Spain
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Walther Bacmeister – Germany
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Alfred Marshall Bailey – US
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Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey – US
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Jean-Baptiste Bailly – France
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Spencer Fullerton Baird
Spencer Fullerton Baird (; February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, Herpetology, herpetologist, and museum curator. Baird was the first curator to be named at the Smithsonian Institution. He ...
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E. C. Stuart Baker – England
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Russell Balda – US
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August Carl Eduard Baldamus
August Carl Eduard Baldamus (April 18, 1812 – October 30, 1893) was a German ornithologist who founded the German Ornithologists' Society.
Life
Baldamus was born in Giersleben, Saxony-Anhalt. He studied theology at the University of Ber ...
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Jean-Christophe Balouet – France
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Vladimir Balthasar – Czech Republic
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Betsy Bang
Betsy Bang ''née'' Garrett (1912–2003) was an American biologist, scientific and medical illustrator. She also translated folk tales from Bengali language, Bengali to English. Her scientific work was notable for her finding that many bird spe ...
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Outram Bangs – US
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V. B. Banjkovski – Russia
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Richard C. Banks – US
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David Armitage Bannerman – UK
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Phyllis Barclay-Smith – UK
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Pierre Barrère – France
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Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland
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Walter B. Barrows – US
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George A. Bartholomew – US
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Edward Bartlett – UK
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William Bartram – US
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Charles Foster Batchelder – US
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George Latimer Bates
George Griswold Latimer Bates (March 21, 1863, Abingdon, Illinois US – January 31, 1940 Chelmsford UK), LL.D., British Ornithologists' Union, M.B.O.U. was an American natural history, naturalist. He lived in central Africa and travelled widely, ...
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E. V. Baxter – Scotland
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Robert Cecil Beavan – England
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Johann Matthäus Bechstein – Germany
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Rollo Beck – US
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Jean-Baptiste Bécœur – France
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William Beebe – US
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Bruce Beehler – US
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William H. Behle – US
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Lyman Belding – US
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Brian Bell – New Zealand
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John Graham Bell – US
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Lev Osipovich Belopolsky – USSR
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Charles Bendire – US
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Constantine Walter Benson – England
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Arthur Cleveland Bent – US
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Andrew John Berger – US
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E. Alexander Bergstrom – US
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Hans von Berlepsch – Germany
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Grace Berlin – US
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Jacques Berlioz - France
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Victor Besaucèle – France
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Thomas Bewick – England
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Valentin Bianchi – Russia
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Eugene P. Bicknell – US
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Tim Birkhead – UK
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Biswamoy Biswas – India
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Gladys Black – US
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Emmet Reid Blake – US
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William Thomas Blanford – England
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August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius – Germany
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Johann Heinrich Blasius – Germany
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Rudolf Blasius – Germany
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Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Asiatic Society, Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta.
He set about updating the museum ...
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George Augustus Boardman – US/Canada
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José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (2 May 1823 – 3 November 1907) was a Portuguese zoologist, politician, and professor. He served as a professor of zoology and director of the National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, National Museu ...
– Portugal
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Walter Joseph Bock (1933–2022) – US
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Pieter Boddaert – Netherlands
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Hans von Boetticher – Germany
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Nikolay Boev – Bulgaria
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Zlatozar Boev – Bulgaria
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Friedrich Boie
Friedrich Boie (4 June 1789 – 3 March 1870) was a German entomologist, herpetologist, ornithologist, and lawyer.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Universi ...
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Auguste Boissonneau – France
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Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithology, ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal ...
– France
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James Bond
The ''James Bond'' franchise focuses on James Bond (literary character), the titular character, a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels ...
– US
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Franco Andrea Bonelli
Franco Andrea Bonelli (10 November 1784 – 18 November 1830) was an Italian ornithology, ornithologist, entomologist and collector. He worked at the University of Turin and was involved in organizing the collections of the natural history museu ...
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J. Lewis Bonhote – England (1875–1922)
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Bernard Borggreve – Germany
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José Ignacio Borrero – Cuba
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Donald J. Borror – US
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Adolphe Boucard – France
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Rudyerd Boulton – US
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Jules Bourcier – France
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Frank Swift Bourns – US
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Louis Hippolyte Bouteille – France
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Johann Friedrich von Brandt – Germany/Russia
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Rex Brasher – US
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Mark Brazil – England/Japan
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Alfred Brehm – Germany
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Christian Ludwig Brehm
Christian Ludwig Brehm (24 January 1787 – 23 June 1864) was a German pastor and Ornithology, ornithologist. He was the father of the Zoology, zoologist Alfred Brehm.
Life
Brehm was born in Schönau (Odenwald), Schönau near Gotha on 24 Ja ...
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Thomas Mayo Brewer – US
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William Brewster – US
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Mathurin Jacques Brisson
Mathurin Jacques Brisson (; 30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosophy, natural philosopher.
Brisson was born on 30 April 1723 at Fontenay-le-Comte in the Vendée department of western France. Note that page 14 ...
– France
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Pierce Brodkorb – US
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Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke – England
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Allan Brooks – Canada
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William Edwin Brooks – Ireland/India
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Herbert Brown – US
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Nathan Clifford Brown – US
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Thomas Browne – England
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Carl Friedrich Bruch – Germany
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Friedrich Brüggemann – Germany
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Morten Thrane Brünnich – Denmark
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William Alanson Bryan – US
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Henry Bryant – US
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Theodor Bühler-Lindenmeyer (1859–1899) – Switzerland
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Walter Buller – New Zealand
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William John Burchell – England
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Hermann Burmeister
Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botany, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at ...
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Edward H. Burtt Jr. – US
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Arthur Lennox Butler – India/England
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Edward Arthur Butler – England
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Johann Büttikofer – Switzerland/Netherlands/Liberia
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Sergei Buturlin
Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin (); 22 September 1872 in Montreux – 22 January 1938 in Moscow was a Russian ornithologist. He was a pioneer in Russia of the study of the diversity of species and described more than 200 new species of bird.
Bi ...
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Jean Cabanis
Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906) was a German ornithologist. He worked at the bird collections of the Natural History Museum in Berlin becoming its first curator of birds in 1850. He founded the ''Journal für Ornithologie ...
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Samuel Cabot III – US
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Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo
Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo (6 June 1922 – 14 July 2006) was a Brazilian zoologist and lawyer, who primarily worked with Brazilian birds.
Life
Camargo was born in the city of Piracicaba, São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'P ...
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Archibald George Campbell – Australia
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Archibald James Campbell – Australia
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Melbourne Armstrong Carriker – US
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John Cassin
John Cassin (September 6, 1813 – January 10, 1869) was an American ornithology, ornithologist from Pennsylvania. He worked as curator and vice president at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences and focused on the systemic classification ...
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Montague Chamberlain – Canada/US
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James Chapin – US
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Frank Chapman – US
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Frederick Nutter Chasen – England/Singapore
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Robert Ernest Cheesman – England
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Tso-hsin Cheng (郑作新) – China
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George Kruck Cherrie – US/Costa Rica
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John Lewis Childs – US
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Glen Chilton – Canada/Australia
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Leslie Christidis – Australia
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Tadeusz Chrostowski – Poland
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Charles Chubb – England
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Phillip Clancey – South Africa
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Austin Hobart Clark – US
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Nigel Cleere – England
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James Clements – US
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Stanley Cobb – US
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Herbert L. Coggins – US
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Leon Jacob Cole – US
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Peter Colston – UK
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Herbert Thomas Condon – Australia
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Boardman Conover – US
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William G. Conway – US
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Wells Cooke – US
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Emilio Cornalia – Italy
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Charles B. Cory – US
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Elliott Coues – US
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John Courtney – Australia
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Lee Crandall – US
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Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar – Germany
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Maunsell Crosby – US
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Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...
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Ede Czynk – Hungary
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Roberto Dabbene – Italy/Argentina
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Raymond de Dalmas Raymond de Dalmas (5 February 1862 - 4 February 1930) was a French voyager, arachnology, arachnologist, and ornithology, ornithologist.
Life
He was raised in Croatia. During his youth he visited many parts of Europe, Algeria and Iceland. He was o ...
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François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin (; 29 August 1776 in Paris – 30 November 1803 in Paris) was a French zoologist.
Biography
With legs paralyzed by childhood disease, he studied physics and natural history but ended up being devoted to the latter.
Daudin w ...
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Priya Davidar – India
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William Leon Dawson – US
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William Ryan Dawson – US
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Charles Walter De Vis
Charles Walter de Vis (9 May 1829 – 30 April 1915)
— Australian Dictionary of Biography
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C. Douglas Deane – UK
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Ruthven Deane – US
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Côme-Damien Degland – France
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Dudley DeGroot – US
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Herbert Girton Deignan – US
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Jean Théodore Delacour – France/US
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Jacques Delamain – France
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Adolphe Delattre – France
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Georgi Petrovich Dementiev
Georgi Petrovich Dementiev (; 5 July, 1898 – 14 April, 1969) was a Russian and Soviet Ornithology, ornithologist and professor at the University of Moscow. His studies based on museum collections and collaboration with others, notably Nikolai Ale ...
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Louis Denise – France
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Antoon Emeric Marcel De Roo – Belgium
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Jean-Marie Derscheid – Belgium
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René Louiche Desfontaines
René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist.
Desfontaines was born near Tremblay, Ille-et-Vilaine, Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medici ...
– France
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Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs – France
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Barbara DeWolfe – US
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Douglas Dewar – England
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Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji – India
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Elio Augusto Di Carlo – Italy
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Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is an American scientist, historian, and author. In 1985 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant, and he has written hundreds of scientific and popular articles and books. His best known is '' Guns, G ...
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Elizabeth Dickens – US
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Edward C. Dickinson – English
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Donald Ryder Dickey – US
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Charles-Eusèbe Dionne – Canada
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John Disney – UK, Australia
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Viktor Rafaelyevich Dolnik – USSR/Russia
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Janusz Domaniewski – Poland
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Caroline Dormon – US
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Jean Dorst – France
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Henry Eeles Dresser – England
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Rudolf Drost – Germany
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Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois – Belgium
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Bernard du Bus de Gisignies
Bernard Aimé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (21 June 1808 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode – 6 July 1874 in Bad Ems) was a Dutch nobleman and later on a Belgium, Belgian politician. He was a collector of arts, books, an ornithologist and paleontolog ...
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Armando Dugand – Colombia
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Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix – France
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Andrzej Dunajewski – Poland
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William Dutcher – US
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Jonathan Dwight – US
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Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki – Poland
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George Edwards – England, "Father of British ornithology"
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Elon Howard Eaton – US
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Scott V. Edwards – US
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...
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Eugene Eisenmann – US
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Walter Elmer Ekblaw – US
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Carl R. Eklund – US
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Daniel Giraud Elliot – US
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Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet – England
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Christian Érard – France
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Carlo von Erlanger – Germany
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Carl Euler – Switzerland
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Arthur Humble Evans – England
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Eduard Friedrich Eversmann – Germany
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Thomas Campbell Eyton – England
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Frederik Faber – Denmark
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Robert Falla – New Zealand
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Donald S. Farner – US
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Norman Joseph Favaloro – Australia
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Walter Faxon – US
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Alan Feduccia – US
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Christoph Feldegg – Austria
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Frank Finn – England
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Otto Finsch – Germany
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Gustav Fischer – Germany
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Albert Kenrick Fisher – US
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James Maxwell McConnell Fisher – England
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Kenneth Fisher – England
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R. S. R. Fitter – England
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John W. Fitzpatrick – US
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Jon Fjeldså – Norway
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Jim Flegg – England
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Charles Fleming – New Zealand
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James Henry Fleming – Canada
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Edward Howe Forbush – US
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Joseph Forshaw – Australia
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Johann Reinhold Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster (; 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Tczew, Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772), Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now Tczew, Po ...
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James Franklin – England/India
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Louis Fraser Louis Fraser (1810 – 1866) was a British Zoology, zoologist and collector. In his early years, Fraser was curator of the Museum of the Zoological Society of London.
Little is known about Fraser's early life. He was born in 1810 and married Mary A ...
– England
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Percy Evans Freke – Ireland
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Herbert Friedmann – US
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Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil
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János Frivaldszky – Hungary
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes – US
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Max Fürbringer – Germany
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Gaszton Gaál – Hungary
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Hans Friedrich Gadow
Hans Friedrich Gadow (8 March 1855 – 16 May 1928) was a Germany, German-born ornithologist who worked in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Britain. His work on the classification of birds based on anatomical and morphological characte ...
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Joseph Paul Gaimard
Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.
Biography
Gaimard was born at Saint-Zacharie on January 31, 1793. He studied medicine at the naval medical school in Toulon, subsequen ...
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Tim Gallagher – US
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William Gambel
William Gambel (June 1823 – December 13, 1849) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, and botanist from Philadelphia. As a young man he worked closely with the renowned naturalist Thomas Nuttall. At the age of eighteen he traveled overland ...
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Wulf Gatter – Germany
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Heinrich Gaetke – Germany
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Prosper Garnot
Prosper Garnot (13 January 1794 – 8 October 1838) was a French surgeon and naturalist.
Garnot was born at Brest. He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on ''La Coquille'' during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822–182 ...
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Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – France
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Zéphirin Gerbe – France
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Hans Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg – Germany
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Enrico Hillyer Giglioli – Italy
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Frank Gill – US
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Theodore Gill
Theodore Nicholas Gill (March 21, 1837 – September 25, 1914) was an American ichthyologist, mammalogist, malacologist, and librarian.
Career
Born and educated in New York City under private tutors, Gill early showed interest in natural hist ...
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Ernest Thomas Gilliard – US
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Robert Gillmor – England
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Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov
Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov (; 20 March 1905 – 31 October 1975) was a Soviet ornithologist. He published a multi-volume work on the birds of the Soviet Union along with G P Dementiev and was a winner of the Stalin Prize of 1952. He served as ...
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Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger – Germany
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German natural history, naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
Education
Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp F ...
– Germany
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Frederick DuCane Godman – England
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Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Zoological Society of London, FZS Royal Geographical Society, FRGS British Ornithologists' Union, MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry ...
– England
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Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez – Spain
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Derek Goodwin
Richard Patrick Goodwin (26 February 1920 – 14 May 2008), known as Derek 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 ...
– England
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Philip Henry Gosse – England
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John Gould
John Gould (; 14 September 1804 – 3 February 1881) was an English ornithologist who published monographs on birds, illustrated by plates produced by his wife, Elizabeth Gould (illustrator), Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists, includ ...
– England
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Claude H. B. Grant – England
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Rolf Grantsau – Germany/Brazil
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George Robert Gray
George Robert Gray (8 July 1808 – 6 May 1872) was an English zoology, zoologist and author, and head of the Ornithology, ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum, London f ...
– England
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828). The same is used for a z ...
(brother of George Robert) – England
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Andrew Jackson Grayson – US
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James Greenway – US
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Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (25 April 1862 – 7 September 1933), better known as Sir Edward Grey, was a British statesman and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician who was the main force behind British foreign policy i ...
– England
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Joseph Grinnell
Joseph P. Grinnell (February 27, 1877 – May 29, 1939) was an American field biologist and zoologist. He made extensive studies of the fauna of California, and is credited with introducing a method of recording precise field observations known ...
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Ludlow Griscom – US
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Hermann Grote – Germany
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Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard – France
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Johan Ernst Gunnerus – Norway
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Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning – Netherlands/South Africa
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John Henry Gurney Jr. – UK
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John Henry Gurney Sr. – UK
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Eberhard Gwinner – Germany
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Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe – Sweden
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Masauji Hachisuka (蜂須賀正氏) – Japan
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Jack Hailman – United States
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Mihkel Härms – Estonia
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Yngvar Hagen – Norway
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Pat Hall – England
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Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany
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Edward Hargitt – Scotland
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Herbert Hastings Harington – British India
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Edward Harris – US
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Colin Harrison – England
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Tom Harrisson – Argentina/England
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Ernst Hartert – Germany
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Gustav Hartlaub
Karel Johan Gustav Hartlaub (8 November 1814 – 29 November 1900) was a German physician and ornithologist.
Hartlaub was born in Bremen, and studied at Bonn and Berlin before graduating in medicine at Göttingen. In 1840, he began to study and ...
– Germany
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François Haverschmidt – Netherlands
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Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (published as Viscount Walden) – Scotland
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Helen Hays – US
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Cornelis Hazevoet – Netherlands
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Gerhard Heilmann – Denmark
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Ferdinand Heine – Germany
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Bernd Heinrich – US
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Katharina Heinroth – Germany
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Oskar Heinroth – Germany
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Carl Eduard Hellmayr – Austria
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Wilhelm Hemprich – Germany
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George Morrison Reid Henry – British Ceylon/England
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Henry Wetherbee Henshaw – US
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James Hepburn – England/Canada
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Ottó Herman – Hungary
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Johann Hermann – France
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Theodor von Heuglin – Germany
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Joseph Hickey – US
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Keith Alfred Hindwood – Australia
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Warren Billingsley Hitchcock – Australia
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John Hobbs – UK/Australia
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Brian Houghton Hodgson
Brian Houghton Hodgson (1 February 1801 – 23 May 1894) was a pioneer natural history, naturalist and ethnologist working in India and Nepal where he was a British Resident (title), Resident. He described numerous species of birds and mammals fr ...
– England/India
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Ralph Hoffmann – US
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Carl Peter Holbøll – Denmark
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Richard T. Holmes – US
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Jacques Bernard Hombron – France
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Ajoy Home – India
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Alexander von Homeyer – Germany
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Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer – Germany
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Andries Hoogerwerf – Netherlands
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Milton N. Hopkins – US
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Thomas Horsfield – US
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Henry Eliot Howard – England
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Thomas Raymond Howell – US
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William Henry Hudson – Argentina/England
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Allan Octavian Hume
Allan Octavian Hume, Order of the Bath, CB Indian Civil Service, ICS (4 June 1829 – 31 July 1912) was a British political reformer, ornithologist, civil servant and botanist who worked in British Raj, British India and was the founding spirit ...
– England/India
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Rob Hume – England
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Syed Abdulla Hussain – India
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Frederick Hutton – England/New Zealand
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Hermann von Ihering – Germany/Brazil
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Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger – Germany
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Collingwood Ingram – England
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Tom Iredale
Tom Iredale (24 March 1880 – 12 April 1972) was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life. He was an Autodidacticism, autodidact who never went to university ...
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Michael Patrick Stuart Irwin – Britain/Rhodesia
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Hussein Adan Isack – Kenya
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Yuri Andreyevich Isakov – Russia/USSR
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Pierre Jabouille – France
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Frederick John Jackson – England/Uganda
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Honoré Jacquinot – France
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Helen F. James – US
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Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet – Scotland
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Konstanty Jelski – Poland
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Thomas C. Jerdon – England/India
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Herbert K. Job – US
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Hans Johansen – Russia/Denmark
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Hermann Johansen – Russia
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Richard F. Johnston – US
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Lynds Jones – US
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Christian Jouanin – France
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Henri Jouard – France
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F. C. R. Jourdain – UK
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George Junge – Netherlands
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Peter Kaestner – US
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Gisela Kaplan – Australia
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Johann Jakob Kaup – Germany
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Janet Kear – England
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Charles Keeler – US
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John Gerrard Keulemans – Netherlands
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Charles Rollin Keyes – US
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Alexander Keyserling – Germany
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Lavkumar Khachar – India
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Norman Boyd Kinnear – Scotland
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Jared Kirtland – US
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Heinrich von Kittlitz – Germany
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Niels Kjærbølling – Denmark
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Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany
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C. Boden Kloss – England/Malaya
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Karel Kněžourek – Czechoslovakia
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Walter Koelz – US
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Alexander Koenig – Germany
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Maria Koepcke – Peru
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Paul Robert Kollibay – Prussia
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Elizabeth Kozlova – Russia
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Niels Krabbe – Denmark
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K. S. R. Krishna Raju – India
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Heinrich Kuhl
Heinrich Kuhl (17 September 1797 – 14 September 1821) was a German people, German naturalist and zoologist.
Kuhl was born in Hanau (Hesse, Germany). Between 1817 and 1820, he was the assistant of professor Th. van Swinderen, docent of natural ...
– Germany
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Hans Kummerlöwe (or Kumerloeve after World War II) – Germany
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Nagahisa Kuroda (黒田長久) – Japan
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Nagamichi Kuroda (黒田長礼) – Japan
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Sayako Kuroda (黒田清子) – Japan
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Friedrich Kutter – Germany
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David Lack – England
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Elizabeth Lack – England
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Frédéric de Lafresnaye
Baron Nöel Frédéric Armand André de Lafresnaye (24 July 1783 – 14 July 1861) was a French ornithologist and collector.
Lafresnaye was born into an aristocratic family at Chateau de La Fresnaye in Falaise, Normandy. He took an early in ...
– France
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Hamilton Mack Laing – Canada
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Christian Ludwig Landbeck – Germany
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Bill Lane – Australia
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Amelia Laskey – US
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John Latham – England
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Alfred Laubmann – Germany
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Louis Lavauden – France
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George Newbold Lawrence – US
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Edgar Leopold Layard – England/Ceylon
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Dudley Le Souef – Australia
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Elsie P. Leach – England
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William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist.
Life and work
Elford Leach was born at Hoe Gate, Plymouth, the son of an attorney. At the age of twelve he began a medical apprenticesh ...
– England
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John Legg – England
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William Vincent Legge – Australia
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Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler – Germany
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Boonsong Lekagul – Thailand
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Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour – France
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René Lesson – France
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François Levaillant – France
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Paul Leverkühn – Germany
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Graceanna Lewis – US
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Félix Louis L'Herminier – France
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Hinrich Lichtenstein – Germany
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Karl Theodor Liebe – Germany
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
– Swedish
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Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford – England
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Bradley C. Livezey – US
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Victor Loche – France
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George Loddiges – England
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Hans Löhrl – Germany
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Agathe François Gouÿe de Longuemare – France
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Einar Lönnberg
Axel Johann Einar Lönnberg (24 December 1865 – 21 November 1942) was a Swedish zoologist and conservationist. Lönnberg was born in Stockholm. He was head of the Vertebrate Department of the '' Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet'' (Swedish Natural ...
– Sweden
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Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (Austrian ; 7 November 1903 – 27 February 1989) was an Austrian zoology, zoologist, ethology, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von ...
– Austria
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Harald von Loudon – Germany
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Michel Louette – Belgium
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Herman L. Løvenskiold – Norway
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Percy Lowe – England
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George Lowery – US
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Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar – Latvia/Germany/Russia
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Hubert Lynes – Wales/England
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James Macdonald – Scotland/Australia
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William MacGillivray – Scotland
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Cyril Mackworth-Praed – England
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Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary
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Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany
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Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky – Russia
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Alfred Malherbe – France
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Louis Mandelli – Italy, India
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Saverio Manetti – Italy
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Stephen Marchant – Australia
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Judy Kellogg Markowsky – US
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Charles Henry Tilson Marshall – England/India
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Kathy Martin – Canada
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Ian J. Mason – Australia
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George Masters – Australia
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Gregory Mathews – Australia
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Ernst Mayr
Ernst Walter Mayr ( ; ; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher of biology, and ...
– US
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George A. McCall – US
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Elliott McClure – US/Southeast Asia
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John Porter McCown – US
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Allan Reginald McEvey – Australia
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Edward Avery McIlhenny – US
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Thomas McIlwraith – Canada
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Charles McKay – US
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Chris Mead – England
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Edmund Meade-Waldo – England
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Edgar Alexander Mearns – US
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Gerlof Mees – Netherlands
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M. F. M. Meiklejohn – England
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Annie Meinertzhagen – Scotland
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Richard Meinertzhagen – England
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Wilhelm Meise
Wilhelm Meise (12 September 1901 in Essen - 24 August 2002 in Hamburg) was a German ornithology, ornithologist.Haffer, Jurgen (2003)''In memoriam'': Wilhelm Meise, 1901-2002 ''The Auk,'' 120(2): 540. (Apr 2003) He studied at the University of Berl ...
– Germany
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Auguste Ménégaux – France
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier – Russia
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Christopher Merret – England
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C. Hart Merriam – US
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Olivier Messiaen – France
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Friedrich Wilhelm Meves - Germany/Sweden
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Adolf Bernhard Meyer – Germany
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Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee – US
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Alden H. Miller – US
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Waldron DeWitt Miller – US
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Alexander William Milligan – Australia
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Alphonse Milne-Edwards
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who ...
– France
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Clive Minton – Australia
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Lacy Irvine Moffett – US
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Juan Ignacio Molina
Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina (; (June 24, 1740 – September 12, 1829) was a Chilean-Spanish Jesuit priest, natural history, naturalist, historian, translator, geographer, botanist, ornithologist, and linguist. He is usually referred to as Abate Moli ...
– Chile
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Edgardo Moltoni – Italy
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Burt Monroe – US
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George Montagu – England
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John J. Montgomery – US
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Frederic Moore
Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company.
It has been said that Mo ...
– England
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Robert Thomas Moore – US
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Reginald Ernest Moreau – England
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Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen – Denmark
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Guy Mountfort – England
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Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller
Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (25 April 1725 – 5 January 1776) was a German zoologist.
Statius Müller was born in Esens, and was a professor of natural science at Erlangen. Between 1773 and 1776, he published a German translation of Linnaeus' ...
– Germany
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Salomon Müller – Germany
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Étienne Mulsant
Martial Étienne Mulsant (2 March 1797, Marnand, Rhône – 4 November 1880) was a French entomologist and ornithologist.
Biography
Initially employed in commerce, Mulsant wrote ''Lettres à Julie sur l'entomologie, suivies d'une description mét ...
– France
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Robert Cushman Murphy
file:The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18156963552).jpg, The whaling ship, ''Daisy'', which Murphy traveled on to the Antarctic
Robert Cushman Murphy (April 29, 1887 – March 20, 1973) was an American ornithologist and Lamont Curator of ...
– US
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Durno Murray – Australia
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Johann Natterer – Austria
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Johann Friedrich Naumann – Germany
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René de Naurois – France
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K. K. Neelakantan – India
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Adolph Nehrkorn – Germany
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Henry Nehrling – US
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Edward William Nelson – US
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Thomas Hudson Nelson – England
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Oscar Neumann – Germany
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Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia
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Alfred Newton
Alfred Newton Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS HFRSE (11 June 18297 June 1907) was an England, English zoologist and ornithologist. Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907. Among his numerous public ...
– England
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Edward Newton – England
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Ian Newton
Ian Newton (born 17 January 1940) is an England, English ornithologist.
Education and early life
Newton was born and raised in north Derbyshire and was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School. He graduated from the University of Bristol. – England
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Margaret Morse Nice – US
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Michael John Nicoll – UK/Egypt
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John Treadwell Nichols
John Treadwell Nichols (June 11, 1883 – November 10, 1958) was an American ichthyologist and Ornithology, ornithologist.
Life and career
Nichols was born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Mary Blake (Slocum) and John White T ...
– US
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Max Nicholson – England
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Günther Niethammer – Germany
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Alexander von Nordmann – Finland
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Alfred John North – Australia
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Cornelius Nozeman – Netherlands
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Eugene W. Oates – England/Burma
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Harry C. Oberholser – US
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Bill Oddie
William Edgar Oddie (born 7 July 1941) is an English actor, artist, birder, comedian, conservationist, musician, songwriter, television presenter and writer. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies.
A birder since his childhood in Quinton ...
– England
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William Robert Ogilvie-Grant – Scotland
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Claes Christian Olrog – Sweden/Argentina
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Storrs L. Olson – US
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Eduard Daniël van Oort – Netherlands
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Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropol ...
– France
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George Ord – US
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Gordon Orians – US
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Wilfred Hudson Osgood – US
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Émile Oustalet – France
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Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussia, Prussian zoologist, botanist, Ethnography, ethnographer, Exploration, explorer, Geography, geographer, Geology, geologist, Natura ...
– Germany
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Shane A. Parker – England/Australia
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Theodore A. Parker III – US
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Kenneth Carroll Parkes – US
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Carl Parrot – Germany
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Charles Parzudaki – Turkiye/France
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Titian Peale – US
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Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US
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August von Pelzeln – Austria
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Thomas E. Penard – US
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Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales.
As a naturalist he had ...
– Wales
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James Lee Peters – US
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Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer.
He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, ...
– Germany
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Roger Tory Peterson – US
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Sewall Pettingill – US
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William Henry Phelps – US/Venezuela
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William H. Phelps Jr. – Venezuela
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Rodolfo Amando Philippi – Germany/Chile
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Allan Robert Phillips – US
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John Charles Phillips
John Charles Phillips (November 5, 1876 – November 14, 1938) was an American hunter, zoologist, ornithologist, and environmentalist. He published over two hundred books and articles about animal breeding, sport hunting, ornithology, wildlife ...
– US
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Theodor Pleske – Russia
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Olivério Pinto – Brazil
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Frank Pitelka – US
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Graham Pizzey – Australia
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Sally Poncet – Australia
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Pilai Poonswad – Thailand
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John du Pont – US
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Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko – USSR(Ukraine)
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Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. – US
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Josef Prokop Pražák – Bohemia
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Alexandre Prigogine – Belgium
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Aleksandr Promptov – Russia/USSR
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Nikolay Przhevalsky (or Przewalski) – Russia
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Jacques Pucheran – France
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Jean René Constant Quoy
Jean René Constant Quoy (10 November 1790 in Maillé, Vendée, Maillé – 4 July 1869 in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Rochefort) was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist.
In 1806, he began his medical studies at the school of naval ...
– France
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Vo Quy – Vietnam
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Dioscoro S. Rabor – Philippines
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Stamford Raffles
Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (5 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) was a British Colonial Office, colonial official who served as the List of governors of the Dutch East Indies, governor of the Dutch East Indies between 1811 and 1816 and lieut ...
– England/Singapore
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Ralph Raitt – US
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Edward Pierson Ramsay
Edward Pierson Ramsay (3 December 1842 – 16 December 1916) was an Australian zoologist who specialised in ornithology.
Early life
Ramsay was born in Dobroyd Estate, Long Cove, Sydney, and educated at St Mark's Collegiate School, The King's S ...
– Australia
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Austin L. Rand – Canada
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Pamela C. Rasmussen – US
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Sushma Reddy – India/US
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Ludwig Reichenbach – Germany
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Anton Reichenow
Anton Reichenow (1 August 1847 in Charlottenburg – 6 July 1941 in Hamburg) was a German ornithologist and Herpetology, herpetologist.
Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Natural Histor ...
– Germany
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Pauline Reilly – Australia
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Othmar Reiser – Austria
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Bernhard Rensch – Germany
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John Richardson – Scotland/England
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Charles Wallace Richmond
Charles Wallace Richmond (December 31, 1868 – May 19, 1932) 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
He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin a ...
– US
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Robert S. Ridgely – US
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John Livzey Ridgway – US
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Robert Ridgway
Robert Ridgway (July 2, 1850 – March 25, 1929) was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics. He was appointed in 1880 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be the first full-time curator of birds ...
– US
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Joseph Harvey Riley – US
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Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul – Scotland
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Sidney Dillon Ripley – US
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Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania
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Chandler Robbins – US
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Austin Roberts – South Africa
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Thomas Sadler Roberts – US
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Herbert C. Robinson – England/Malaya
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Edward Hearle Rodd – England
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as Teddy or T.R., was the 26th president of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt previously was involved in New York (state), New York politics, incl ...
– US
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Hermann von Rosenberg – Germany
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Adriaan Joseph van Rossem – US
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Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild
Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, (8 February 1868 – 27 August 1937) was a British banker, politician, zoology, zoologist, and soldier, who was a member of the Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he wa ...
– England
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Frank Rozendaal – Netherlands
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Eduard Rüppell
Wilhelm Peter Eduard Simon Rüppell, also spelled Rueppell (20 November 1794 – 10 December 1884) was a German Natural history, naturalist and List of explorers, explorer, best known for his collections and descriptions of plants and animals from ...
– Germany
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Karl Russ – Germany(Prussia)
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Erich Rutschke – Germany
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Wladyslaw Rydzewski – Poland
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Edward Sabine – Ireland
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John Hall Sage – US
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Finn Salomonsen – Denmark
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Tommaso Salvadori – Italy
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Osbert Salvin
Osbert Salvin (25 February 1835 – 1 June 1898) was an English natural history, naturalist, Ornithology, ornithologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist best known for co-authoring ''Biologia Centrali-Americana'' (1879–1915) with Frederick DuC ...
– England
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Howard Saunders – England
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William Edwin Saunders – Canada
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William Savage – US
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Paolo Savi – Italy
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Hans Schaanning – Norway
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Alfred Schifferli – Switzerland
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Eiler Lehn Schiøler – Denmark
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Hermann Schlegel
Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist.
Early life and education
Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated ...
– Germany/Netherlands
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Richard Schodde – Australia
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Henri Schouteden – Belgium
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Ernst Schüz – Germany
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Philip Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an England, English lawyer and zoologist. In zoology, he was an expert ornithologist, and identified the main zoogeographic regions of the world. He was Secretary of the Zoological ...
– England
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William Lutley Sclater – England
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Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italians, Italian physician and natural history, naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first ...
– Austria/Tyrol
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J. Michael Scott – US
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Peter Scott – England
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William Earl Dodge Scott - US
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Henry Seebohm – England
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Josef Seilern – Austria/Czech
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Prideaux John Selby – England
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George B. Sennett – US
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Pavel Vladimirovich Serebrovsky – Russia/USSR
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William Serle – Scotland
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Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (or Severtsov) – Russia
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Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English people, English zoologist and ornithology, ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history. In the course of his car ...
– England
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George Shaw – England
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Frederick H. Sheldon – US
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George Ernest Shelley
Captain George Ernest Shelley (15 May 1840 – 29 November 1910) was an England, English geologist and ornithologist. He was a nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Shelley was educated at the Lycée de Versailles and served a few years in ...
– England
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Althea Sherman – US
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Hadoram Shirihai – Israel
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Lester L. Short – US
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Leonid Shulpin – Russia/USSR
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Charles Sibley – US
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David Allen Sibley – US
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Helmut Sick – Brazil
*Hendrik Cornelis Siebers – Netherlands
*Eugène Simon – French
*Ken Simpson – Australia
*Vasily N. Skalon, Vasily Nikolaevich Skalon – Russia/USSR
*Cuthbert John Skead – South Africa
*Alexander Skutch – US
*Tore Slagsvold – Norway
*Henry H. Slater – England
*Andrew Smith (zoologist), Andrew Smith – Scotland
*Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby – England
*Bertram E. Smythies – England
*Emilie Snethlage – Germany/Brazil
*David Snow (ornithologist), David Snow – England
*Barbara Snow (ornithologist), Barbara Snow – England
*Jan Sokolowski – Poland
*Soekarja Somadikarta – Indonesia
*James Mortimer Southwick – US
*Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg – USSR
*Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden
*Johann Baptist von Spix – Germany
*Isaac Sprague – US
*Don Stap – US
*David Steadman – US
*Joseph Beal Steere – US
*Boris K. Stegmann – Russia/USSR
*Joachim Steinbacher – Germany
*Leonhard Stejneger – Norway – US
*Georg Steller – Germany
*Leo Stepanyan – USSR/Armenia
*James Francis Stephens – England
*Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic
*Jean Stolzmann (also as Jan Sztolcman) – Poland
*Witmer Stone – US
*Robert W. Storer – US
*Erwin Stresemann – Germany
*Hugh Edwin Strickland – England
*Robert Stroud – US
*Noah Strycker – US
*Jacob H. Studer – US
*Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm – Germany
*Johann Wilhelm Sturm – Germany
*J. Denis Summers-Smith – Scotland/England
*Carl Jakob Sundevall – Sweden
*Petr Sushkin – Russia
*Ernst Sutter – Switzerland
*George Miksch Sutton – US
*William Swainson – England/New Zealand
*Harry Swarth – US
*Charles Swinhoe – England/India
*Robert Swinhoe – England/Formosa
*William Henry Sykes – England/India
*Jan Bogusław Szczepski – Poland
*Jan Sztolcman (also as Jean Stolzmann) – Poland
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*Władysław Taczanowski – Poland
*Léonce de Tarragon – France
*Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Netherlands
*John Kenneth Terres – US
*John Thayer (ornithologist), John Eliot Thayer – US
*Gerhard Thielcke – Germany
*Johannes Thienemann – Germany
*Ludwig Thienemann – Germany
*William Lay Thompson – US
*Arthur Landsborough Thomson – Scotland
*Claud B. Ticehurst – England
*Samuel Tickell – India
*Luuk Tinbergen – Netherlands
*Niko Tinbergen – Netherlands
*Friedrich Tischler – Prussia/Germany
*Walter Edmond Clyde Todd – US
*John David Digues La Touche – England/Ireland
*Charles Haskins Townsend – US
*John Kirk Townsend – US
*Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. – US
*Alberto O. Treganza – US
*Roland Trimen – England/South Africa
*Henry Baker Tristram – England
*Johann Jakob von Tschudi – Switzerland
*Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen – Austria
*Bernard Tucker – England
*Marmaduke Tunstall – England
*William Turner (ornithologist), William Turner – England
*Konstanty Tyzenhauz – Poland
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*Miklos Udvardy, Miklós Udvardy – Hungary/Canada
*Richard J. Ussher – Ireland
*Tatsuo Utagawa (宇田川竜男) – Japan
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*Achille Valenciennes – France
*Dirk Van den Abeele – Belgium
*Jacques Van Impe – Belgium
*James Van Remsen Jr. – US
*Victor Van Someren – Australia/Kenya
*Josselyn Van Tyne – US
*Richard Vaughan (historian), Richard Vaughan – UK
*Charles Vaurie – France/US
*Édouard Verreaux – France
*Jules Verreaux – France
*Louis Pierre Vieillot – France
*Nicholas Aylward Vigors – Ireland/England
*Jack Vincent – England
*Keith Vinicombe – England
*William Vogt – US
*Karel Voous – Netherlands
*Adolphe Vorderman – Netherlands
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*Johann Georg Wagler – Germany
*Will Wagstaff – Wales/England
*Veleslav Wahl – Czechoslovakia
*Johan August Wahlberg – Sweden
*Karl Wahnes – Germany
*Lawrence H. Walkinshaw – US
*Alfred Russel Wallace – England
*Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay – England
*George Robert Waterhouse – England
*George Waterston – Scotland
*Richard Weatherly – Australia
*Hugo Weigold – Germany
*Alexander Wetmore – US
*Hugh Whistler – India
*Joseph Whitaker (ornithologist), Joseph Whitaker – Italy/England
*Gilbert White – England
*Henry Luke White – Australia
*Henry Whitely (ornithologist), Henry Whitely
*Andrew Whittaker (ornithologist), Andrew Whittaker – England
*Otto Widmann – US
*Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied – Germany
*John Wiens – US
*George Willett – US
*Lionel William Wiglesworth – England
*Iolo Williams – Wales
*John G. Williams (ornithologist), John G. Williams – Wales
*Francis Willughby – UK
*Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Alexander Wilson – Scotland/US
*Kerry-Jayne Wilson – NZ
*Scott Barchard Wilson – England
*Marie Winn – US
*Harry Witherby – England
*Kazimierz Wodzicki – Poland/New Zealand
*John Woinarski – Australia
*Hans Edmund Wolters – Germany
*Won Hong-gu, 원홍구 – North Korea (father of Won Pyong-oh)
*Won Pyong-oh, 원병오 – South Korea
*Samuel Washington Woodhouse – US
*Dean Conant Worcester – US
*Philogène Wytsman – Belgium
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*John Xantus – Hungary
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*Yoshimaro Yamashina (山階芳麿) – Japan
*William Yarrell – England
*John Yealland – England
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*Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny – Ukraine/Russia
*José Castulo Zeledón – Costa Rica
*John Todd Zimmer – US
*Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy
See also
*List of ornithologists abbreviated names
*List of birdwatchers
References
External links
*http://www.zoonomen.net/bio/ind.html
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