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 […]