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. […]
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Peter Berthold (1939) is one of the leading German ornithologists and internationally acclaimed specialist on bird migration. Especially his studies on (the migration of) the blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) are famous. So is his book ‘Bird migration, a general survey‘. From 1998 till his retirement he was director of the Forschungsstelle für Ornithologie der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. His […]
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Sálim Moizuddin Abdul Ali (1896 – 1987) was known as the “Birdman of India” and was closely associated with a great many eminent people – such as Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Sidney Dillon Ripley. His life-long interest in birds started in his childhood, when he shot a yellow-throated sparrow and had it identified at […]