List of ornithologists
This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also Category:Ornithologists.
A
- John Abbot – US
- Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US
- William Louis Abbott – US
- Joseph H. Acklen – US
- Humayun Abdulali – India
- Jon E. Ahlquist – US
- Prince Akishino – Japan
- Luigi d'Albertis – Italy
- John Warren Aldrich – US
- Boyd Alexander – UK
- Christopher James Alexander – UK
- Horace Alexander – UK, US
- Wilfred Backhouse Alexander – UK
- Salim Ali – India
- Arthur Augustus Allen – US
- Elsa Guerdrum Allen – US
- Glover Morrill Allen – US
- Joel Asaph Allen – US
- Robert Porter Allen – US
- György Almásy – Hungary/Austria
- Dean Amadon – US
- George W. Archibald – Canada/US
- John Ash – UK
- Edwin Ashby – Australia
- Henry Philemon Attwater – UK/Canada/US
- Yves Aubry – Canada
- Jean Victoire Audouin – France
- John James Audubon – France/US
- Oliver L. Austin – US
B
- Walther Bacmeister – Germany
- Alfred Marshall Bailey – US
- Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey – US
- Spencer Fullerton Baird – US
- E. C. Stuart Baker – UK
- Russell Balda – US
- August Carl Eduard Baldamus – Germany
- Outram Bangs – US
- Richard C. Banks – US
- David Armitage Bannerman – UK
- Phyllis Barclay-Smith – UK
- Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland
- Walter B. Barrows – US
- George A. Bartholomew – US
- William Bartram – US
- Charles Foster Batchelder – US
- George Latimer Bates – US
- E. V. Baxter – UK
- Robert Cecil Beavan – UK
- Johann Matthäus Bechstein – German
- Rollo Beck – US
- William Beebe – US
- Bruce Beehler – US
- William H. Behle – US
- Lyman Belding – US
- Brian Bell – New Zealand
- John Graham Bell – US
- Lev Osipovich Belopolsky – USSR
- Charles Bendire – US
- Constantine Walter Benson – UK
- Arthur Cleveland Bent – US
- Andrew John Berger – US
- E. Alexander Bergstrom – US
- Hans von Berlepsch – Germany
- Grace Berlin – US
- Thomas Bewick – UK
- Valentin Bianchi – Russia
- Eugene P. Bicknell – US
- Biswamoy Biswas – India
- Gladys Black – US
- William Thomas Blanford – UK
- August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius – Germany
- Johann Heinrich Blasius – Germany
- Rudolf Blasius – Germany
- Edward Blyth – UK
- George Augustus Boardman – US/Canada
- José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage – Portugal
- Pieter Boddaert – Dutch
- Nikolay Boev - Bulgaria
- Zlatozar Boev – Bulgaria
- Friedrich Boie – Germany
- Auguste Boissonneau – France
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte – France
- James Bond – US
- Franco Andrea Bonelli – Italy
- J. Lewis Bonhote – UK (1875-1922)
- Bernard Borggreve – Germany
- Donald J. Borror – US
- Frank Swift Bourns – US
- Mark Brazil – UK
- Alfred Brehm – Germany
- Christian Ludwig Brehm – Germany
- Thomas Mayo Brewer – US
- William Brewster – US
- Mathurin Jacques Brisson – France
- Pierce Brodkorb – US
- Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke – UK
- Allan Brooks – Canada
- William Edwin Brooks – Ireland/India
- Herbert Brown – US
- Nathan Clifford Brown – US
- Thomas Browne – UK, early British amateur (17th century)
- Carl Friedrich Bruch – Germany
- Friedrich Brüggemann – Germany
- Morten Thrane Brünnich – Denmark
- William Alanson Bryan – US
- Henry Bryant – US
- Walter Buller – New Zealand
- Hermann Burmeister – Germany
- Edward H. Burtt, Jr. – US
- Edward Arthur Butler – UK
- Johann Büttikofer – Switzerland/Netherlands/Liberia
- Sergei Buturlin – Russia
C
- Jean Cabanis – Germany
- Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo – Brazil
- Archibald James Campbell – Australia
- Melbourne Armstrong Carriker – US
- John Cassin – US
- Montague Chamberlain – Canada/US
- James Chapin – US
- Frank Chapman – US
- Frederick Nutter Chasen – UK
- Robert Ernest Cheesman – UK
- Tso-hsin Cheng – China
- George Kruck Cherrie – US/Costa Rica
- John Lewis Childs – US
- Glen Chilton – Canada/Australia
- Leslie Christidis – Australia
- Charles Chubb – UK
- Phillip Clancey – South Africa
- Nigel Cleere – UK
- James Clements – US
- Stanley Cobb – US
- Herbert L. Coggins – US
- Leon Jacob Cole – US
- Peter Colston – UK
- Herbert Thomas Condon – Australia
- Boardman Conover – US
- William G. Conway – US
- Wells Cooke – US
- Charles B. Cory – US
- Elliott Coues – US
- John Courtney – Australia
- Lee Crandall – US
- Maunsell Crosby – US
- Georges Cuvier – France
D
- John Danzenbaker – US
- François Marie Daudin – France
- Priya Davidar – India
- William Leon Dawson – US
- William Ryan Dawson – US
- Charles Walter De Vis – UK/Australia
- C. Douglas Deane – UK
- Ruthven Deane – US
- Dudley DeGroot – US
- Herbert Girton Deignan – US
- Jean Théodore Delacour – France/US
- Georgi Petrovich Dementiev – USSR
- René Louiche Desfontaines – France
- Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs – France
- Barbara DeWolfe – US
- Douglas Dewar – UK
- Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji – India
- Elio Augusto Di Carlo – Italy
- Jared Diamond – US
- Elizabeth Dickens – US
- Donald Ryder Dickey – US
- Charles-Eusèbe Dionne – Canada
- John Disney – UK, Australia
- Caroline Dormon – US
- Jean Dorst – France
- Henry Eeles Dresser – UK
- Rudolf Drost – Germany
- Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois – Belgium
- John du Pont – US
- Andrzej Dunajewski – Poland
- William Dutcher – US
- Jonathan Dwight – US
E
- George Edwards – UK, "Father of British ornithology"
- Elon Howard Eaton – US
- Scott V. Edwards – US
- Eugene Eisenmann – US
- Walter Elmer Ekblaw – US
- Carl R. Eklund – US
- Daniel Giraud Elliot – US
- Carlo von Erlanger – Germany
- Arthur Humble Evans – UK
- Eduard Friedrich Eversmann – Germany
- Thomas Campbell Eyton – UK
F
- Robert Falla – New Zealand
- Donald S. Farner – US
- Norman Joseph Favaloro – Australia
- Walter Faxon – US
- Alan Feduccia – US
- Christoph Feldegg – Austria
- Frank Finn – UK
- Otto Finsch – Germany
- Gustav Fischer – Germany
- Albert Kenrick Fisher – US
- James Maxwell McConnell Fisher – UK
- R. S. R. Fitter – UK
- John W. Fitzpatrick – US
- Jim Flegg – UK
- James Henry Fleming – Canada
- Edward Howe Forbush – US
- Joseph Forshaw – Australia
- Johann Reinhold Forster – Poland/UK
- James Franklin – UK
- Louis Fraser – UK
- Percy Evans Freke – Ireland
- Herbert Friedmann – US
- Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes – US
G
- Gaszton Gaál – Hungary
- Hans Friedrich Gadow – Germany
- Tim Gallagher – US
- William Gambel – US
- Heinrich Gaetke – Germany
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – France
- Enrico Hillyer Giglioli – Italy
- Frank Gill – US
- Theodore Gill – US
- Ernest Thomas Gilliard – US
- Robert Gillmor – UK
- Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov – USSR
- Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger – Germany
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin – Germany
- Frederick DuCane Godman – UK
- Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez – Spain
- Derek Goodwin – UK
- Philip Henry Gosse – UK
- John Gould – UK
- Rolf Grantsau – Germany/Brazil
- George Robert Gray – UK
- John Edward Gray – UK (brother of the above)
- Andrew Jackson Grayson – US
- James Greenway – US
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon – UK
- Joseph Grinnell – US
- Ludlow Griscom – US
- Hermann Grote – Germany
- Johan Ernst Gunnerus – Norway
- Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning – Netherlands/South Africa
- John Henry Gurney Jr. – UK
- John Henry Gurney Sr. – UK
- Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe – Sweden
H
- Masauji Hachisuka – Japan
- Pat Hall – UK
- Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany
- Edward Hargitt – UK
- Herbert Hastings Harington – British Empire (British India)
- Edward Harris – US
- Tom Harrisson – UK
- Ernst Hartert – Germany
- Gustav Hartlaub – Germany
- Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale – UK
- Helen Hays – US
- Ferdinand Heine – Germany
- Bernd Heinrich – US
- Oskar Heinroth – Germany
- Carl Eduard Hellmayr – Austria
- George Morrison Reid Henry – British Empire (British Ceylon)
- Henry Wetherbee Henshaw – US
- James Hepburn – UK
- Ottó Herman – Hungary
- Johann Hermann – France
- Theodor von Heuglin – Germany
- Joseph Hickey – US
- Warren Billingsley Hitchcock – Australia
- John_Hobbs – UK, Australia
- Ralph Hoffmann – US
- Carl Peter Holbøll – Denmark
- Ajoy Home – India
- Richard T. Holmes – US
- Jacques Bernard Hombron – France
- Alexander von Homeyer – Germany
- Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer – Germany
- Milton N. Hopkins – US
- Thomas Horsfield – US
- Henry Eliot Howard – UK
- William Henry Hudson – Argentina, UK
- Allan Octavian Hume – British Empire (British India)
- Rob Hume – UK
- Syed Abdulla Hussain – India
- Frederick Wollaston Hutton – British Empire, New Zealand
I
- Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger – Germany
- Collingwood Ingram – UK
- Tom Iredale – UK – Australia
- Hussein Adan Isack – Kenya
- Yuri Andreyevich Isakov - Russia, USSR
J
- Frederick John Jackson – UK
- Honoré Jacquinot – France
- Helen F. James – US
- Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet – UK
- Thomas C. Jerdon – British Empire, British India
- Herbert K. Job – US
- Hans Johansen – Russia – Denmark
- Hermann Johansen – Russia
- Richard F. Johnston – US
- Lynds Jones – US
- Christian Jouanin – France
- Henri Jouard – France
- George Junge – Netherlands
K
- Peter Kaestner – US
- Gisela Kaplan – Australia
- Johann Jakob Kaup – Germany
- Janet Kear – UK
- Charles Keeler – US
- Charles Rollin Keyes – US
- Alexander Keyserling – Germany
- Lavkumar Khachar – India
- Norman Boyd Kinnear – UK
- Jared Kirtland – US
- Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany
- C. Boden Kloss – UK
- Walter Koelz – US
- Alexander Koenig – Germany
- Maria Koepcke – Peru
- Paul Robert Kollibay – Prussia
- Elizabeth Kozlova – Russia
- Niels Krabbe – Denmark
- K. S. R. Krishna Raju – India
- Hans Kummerlöwe (or Kumerloeve after World War II) – Germany
- Nagahisa Kuroda – Japan
- Nagamichi Kuroda – Japan
- Sayako Kuroda – Japan
L
- David Lack – UK
- Frédéric de Lafresnaye – France
- Bill Lane – Australia
- Amelia Laskey – US
- John Latham – UK
- Alfred Laubmann – Germany
- Louis Lavauden – France
- George Newbold Lawrence – US
- Edgar Leopold Layard – UK
- Dudley Le Souef – Australia
- Elsie P. Leach – UK
- William Elford Leach – UK
- John Legg – UK
- William Vincent Legge – Australia
- Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler – Germany
- Boonsong Lekagul – Thailand
- René Lesson – France
- Graceanna Lewis – US
- Hinrich Lichtenstein – Germany
- Karl Theodor Liebe – Germany
- Carl Linnaeus – Swedish
- Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford – UK
- Bradley C. Livezey – US
- Victor Loche – France
- Konrad Lorenz – Austria
- Harald von Loudon – Germany
- Michel Louette – Belgium
- Percy Lowe – UK
- George Lowery – US
- Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar – Latvia/Germany/Russia
- Hubert Lynes – UK
M
- James Macdonald – UK
- William MacGillivray – UK
- Cyril Mackworth-Praed – UK
- Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary
- Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany
- Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky – Russia
- Alfred Malherbe – France
- Louis Mandelli – Italy, India
- Saverio Manetti – Italy
- Stephen Marchant – Australia
- Charles Henry Tilson Marshall – British Empire, British India
- Kathy Martin – Canada
- Ian J. Mason – Australia
- George Masters – Australia
- Gregory Mathews – Australia
- Ernst Mayr – US
- George A. McCall – US
- John Porter McCown – US
- Allan Reginald McEvey – Australia
- Edward Avery McIlhenny – US
- Thomas McIlwraith – Canada
- Charles McKay – US
- Elliott McClure – US, Southeast Asia
- Chris Mead – UK
- Edgar Alexander Mearns – US
- Gerlof Mees – Netherlands
- M.F.M. Meiklejohn – UK
- Annie Meinertzhagen – UK
- Richard Meinertzhagen – UK
- Wilhelm Meise – Germany
- Édouard Ménétries – France
- C. Hart Merriam – US
- Olivier Messiaen – France
- Adolf Bernhard Meyer – Germany
- Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee – US
- Alden H. Miller – US
- Alexander William Milligan – Australia
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards – France
- Clive Minton – Australia
- Lacy Irvine Moffett – US
- Edgardo Moltoni – Italy
- Frederic Moore – UK
- Robert Thomas Moore – US
- Burt Monroe – US
- George Montagu – UK
- John J. Montgomery – US
- Reginald Ernest Moreau – UK
- Guy Mountfort – UK
- Salomon Müller – Germany
- Robert Cushman Murphy – US
- Durno Murray – Australia
N
- Johann Natterer – Austria
- Johann Friedrich Naumann – Germany
- René de Naurois – France
- K. K. Neelakantan – India
- Henry Nehrling – US
- Edward William Nelson – US
- Thomas Hudson Nelson - UK
- Oscar Neumann – Germany
- Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia
- Alfred Newton – UK
- Edward Newton – UK
- Ian Newton – UK
- Margaret Morse Nice – US
- Michael John Nicoll – UK/Egypt
- John Treadwell Nichols – US
- Max Nicholson – UK
- Günther Niethammer – Germany
- Alexander von Nordmann – Finland
- Alfred John North – Australia
O
- Eugene W. Oates – UK
- Harry C. Oberholser – US
- Bill Oddie – UK
- William Robert Ogilvie-Grant – UK
- Storrs L. Olson – US
- Eduard Daniël van Oort – Netherlands
- Alcide d'Orbigny – France
- George Ord – US
- Gordon Orians – US
- Émile Oustalet – France
P
- Peter Simon Pallas – Germany
- Shane A. Parker – UK/Australia
- Theodore A. Parker III – US
- Carl Parrot – Germany
- Titian Peale – US
- Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US
- August von Pelzeln – Austria
- James Lee Peters – US
- Wilhelm Peters – German
- Alan P. Peterson – US
- Roger Tory Peterson – US
- Sewall Pettingill – US
- William Henry Phelps – US, Venezuela
- William H. Phelps, Jr. – Venezuela
- Allan Robert Phillips – US
- John Charles Phillips – US
- Frank Pitelka – US
- Graham Pizzey – Australia
- Sally Poncet – Australia
- Pilai Poonswad – Thailand
- Harold Douglas Pratt, Jr. – US
- Josef Prokop Pražák – Bohemia
- Alexandre Prigogine – Belgium
- Aleksandr Promptov – Russia, USSR
- Nikolay Przhevalsky – Russia
- Jacques Pucheran – France
Q
- Vo Quy – Vietnam
R
- Stamford Raffles – UK, Singapore
- Edward Pierson Ramsay – Australia
- Austin L. Rand – Canada
- Pamela C. Rasmussen – US
- Ludwig Reichenbach – German
- Anton Reichenow – Germany
- Pauline Reilly – Australia
- Bernhard Rensch – Germany
- John Richardson – UK, Scotland
- Charles Wallace Richmond – US
- Robert S. Ridgely – US
- John Livzey Ridgway – US
- Robert Ridgway – US
- Joseph Harvey Riley – US
- Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul – UK
- Sidney Dillon Ripley – US
- Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania
- Chandler Robbins – US
- Austin Roberts – South Africa
- Thomas Sadler Roberts – US
- Herbert C. Robinson – UK
- Edward Hearle Rodd – UK
- Theodore Roosevelt – US
- Hermann von Rosenberg – Germany
- Adriaan Joseph van Rossem – US
- Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild – UK
- Erich Rutschke – Germany
- Eduard Rüppell – Germany
- Wladyslaw Rydzewski – Poland
S
- Edward Sabine – UK
- Finn Salomonsen – Denmark
- Tommaso Salvadori – Italy
- Osbert Salvin – UK
- Howard Saunders – UK
- William Edwin Saunders – Canada
- Paolo Savi – Italy
- Alfred Schifferli – Switzerland
- Hermann Schlegel – Germany, Netherlands
- Richard Schodde – Australia
- Ernst Schüz – Germany
- Philip Lutley Sclater – UK
- William Lutley Sclater – UK
- Giovanni Antonio Scopoli – Austria, Tyrol
- J. Michael Scott – US
- Peter Scott – UK
- Henry Seebohm – UK
- Prideaux John Selby – UK
- George B. Sennett – US
- William Serle – UK
- Nikolai Severtzov – Russia
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe – UK
- Frederick H. Sheldon – US
- George Ernest Shelley – UK
- Althea Sherman – US
- Hadoram Shirihai – Israel
- Lester L. Short – US
- Charles Sibley – US
- David Allen Sibley – US
- Helmut Sick – Brazil
- Ken Simpson – Australia
- Vasily N. Skalon – Russia, USSR
- Cuthbert John Skead – South Africa
- Alexander Skutch – US
- Andrew Smith – UK, Scotland
- Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby – UK
- Bertram E. Smythies – UK
- David Snow and Barbara Snow – UK
- James Mortimer Southwick – US
- Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden
- 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 – UK
- Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic
- Robert W. Storer – US
- Erwin Stresemann – Germany
- Hugh Edwin Strickland – UK
- Robert Stroud – US
- Noah Strycker – US
- Jacob H. Studer – US
- Johann Wilhelm Sturm – Germany
- J. Denis Summers-Smith – UK
- Carl Jakob Sundevall – Sweden
- Petr Sushkin – Russia
- Ernst Sutter – Switzerland
- George Miksch Sutton – US
- William Swainson – UK
- Charles Swinhoe – UK
- Robert Swinhoe – UK
- Colonel W. H. Sykes – UK
T
- Władysław Taczanowski – Poland
- Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Netherlands
- John Kenneth Terres – US
- Johannes Thienemann – Germany
- Ludwig Thienemann – Germany
- William Lay Thompson – US
- Arthur Landsborough Thomson – UK
- Claud B. Ticehurst – UK
- Samuel Tickell – India
- Niko Tinbergen – Netherlands
- Friedrich Tischler – Prussia, Germany
- Walter Edmond Clyde Todd – US
- John David Digues La Touche – UK/Ireland
- Charles Haskins Townsend – US
- John Kirk Townsend – US
- Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr. – US
- Alberto O. Treganza – US
- Roland Trimen – UK/South Africa
- Henry Baker Tristram – UK
- Johann Jakob von Tschudi – Switzerland
- Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen – Austria
- Bernard Tucker – UK
- Marmaduke Tunstall – UK
- William Turner – UK
U
- Miklós Udvardy – Hungary/Canada
- Tatsuo Utagawa – Japan
V
- Charles Vaurie – France/US
- Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot – France
- Jacques Van Impe – Belgium
- Victor Van Someren – British Empire
- Édouard Verreaux – France
- Jules Verreaux – France
- Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot – France
- Nicholas Aylward Vigors – Britain/Ireland
- Keith Vinicombe – UK
- William Vogt – US
- Karel Voous – Netherlands
W
- Johann Georg Wagler – Germany
- Will Wagstaff – UK
- Veleslav Wahl – Czechoslovakia
- Johan August Wahlberg – Sweden
- Lawrence H. Walkinshaw – US
- Alfred Russel Wallace – UK
- Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay – UK
- George Waterston – UK
- Richard Weatherly – Australia
- Hugo Weigold – Germany
- Alexander Wetmore – US
- Hugh Whistler – India
- Joseph Whitaker – UK/Italy
- Gilbert White – UK
- Henry Luke White – Australia
- Otto Widmann – US
- John Wiens – US
- Iolo Williams – Wales
- Francis Willughby – UK
- Alexander Wilson – Scotland, US
- Kerry-Jayne Wilson – NZ
- Scott Barchard Wilson – UK
- Marie Winn – US
- Harry Witherby – UK
- Hans Edmund Wolters – Germany
- Won Hong-gu – North Korea (father of Won Pyong-oh)
- Won Pyong-oh – South Korea
- Samuel Washington Woodhouse – US
- John Woinarski - Australia
- Dean Conant Worcester – US
X
- John Xantus – Hungary
Y
- Yoshimaro Yamashina – Japan
- William Yarrell – UK
- Nikolai Zarudny – Ukraine
Z
- John Todd Zimmer – US
- Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy
