Paul Louis Poty (30 August 1889,

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- 10 February 1962,

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) was a French

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

who specialised in

ornithology Ornithology, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (''órnis''), meaning "bird", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is a branch of zoology dedicated to the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related discip ...

. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' :fr:Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie with its founder Paul Paris and

Louis Lavauden Louis Lavauden (19 June 1881, in Grenoble – 1 September 1935, in Anjou, Isère) was a French zoologist and forester. He was a student at the French National School of Forestry, Institut agronomique et de l'Ecole forestière in Nancy, Fran ...

Noël Mayaud Noël Mayaud (25 November 1899, Saumur - 2 May 1989, Saumur) was a French naturalist who specialised in ornithology. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' :fr:Alauda, Revue internationa ...

Henri Heim de Balsac Henri Heim de Balsac (1 January 1899 – 28 November 1979) was a French zoologist. In 1937 Henri Heim de Balsac was awarded the Prix Savigny de l'Académie des sciences. In the following year, 1938, he was awarded the Prix Gadeau de Kerville ...

, Jacques de Chavigny, Henri Jouard and Jacques Delamain. He was a physician.

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René Ronsil René Henri Ronsil (18 April 1908, Ménilles – 17 October 1956, Louveciennes) was a French naturalist who specialised in ornithology especially the bibliography of bird literature. He was also an operatic tenor A tenor is a type of male sin ...

(1948) ''Bibliographie ornithologique française''. Tome I. Bibliographie. Paul Lechevalier, Paris, 534 p. {{DEFAULTSORT:Poty, Paul Louis French ornithologists 1962 deaths 1889 births 20th-century French zoologists