Edward Lear (1812-1888) was an English poet, traveler and artist. He is famous for his nonsense verse, limericks and songs, such as The Owl and the Pussycat. Meanwhile he was one of the most talented illustrators of birds of the 19th century. At the age of 18 he started working on his ‘Illustrations of the […]
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Jon Knud Bøgh Fjeldså (Norway, 1942) is a Danish ornithologist, and Darwin look-a-like. Currently he is professor of biodiversity at the University of Copenhagen and in charge of the bird collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark (ZMUC). Professor Fjeldså is the world authority on grebes and worked for more than a decade on […]
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Cyril Alexander Walker (1939-2009) joined the staff of the British Museum (Natural History) in 1958, where he was to become an authority on fossil birds of the late Cretaceous and the Eocene period. He was appointed curator of fossil birds in 1972 and he is best remembered for his discovery of a new subclass of […]
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Thomas Caverhill Jerdon (1811-1872) was a British physician, zoologist and botanist, stationed in India. His initial work was in dealing with fever and dysentery that affected the troops. He is best remembered for his pioneering works on the ornithology of India, summed up in his ‘The Birds of India – A Natural History’ (Vol. I-III. […]