Fernando da Costa Novaes explained

Fernando da Costa Novaes
Birth Date:6 April 1927
Birth Place:João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil
Death Place:Belém, Pará, Brazil
Fields:Ornithology
Workplaces:Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
Alma Mater:Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Known For:"Founder of modern Brazilian ornithology"
Awards:1954 Guggenheim scholarship
1991 Ordem do Mérito do Grão-Pará, Comendador

Fernando da Costa Novaes (April 6, 1927 – March 24, 2004) was a Brazilian ornithologist who worked on the Amazonian bird fauna.[1]

Education

In 1971 he was granted his doctorate from the State University of São Paulo at Rio Claro, with the thesis Estudo ecológico das aves em uma área de vegetação secundária do baixo rio Amazonas, Estado do Pará.

Career

Novaes was based at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém, where he assembled the second largest bird skin and skeleton collection in Brazil. This collection has been renamed in his honor. His major contributions were in defining the Amazon region's faunal boundaries and affinities, as well as clarifying taxonomic problems.

In 1954, Novaes was granted a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to study in the US, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, of the University of California at Berkeley, with the renowned ornithologist Alden H. Miller.

Novaes's many publications are listed in the obituaries by Oren and Silva.[2]

He is commemorated in the name of the Alagoas foliage-gleaner, Philydor novaesi.

Selected publications

References

  1. Web site: Rare Mop-Topped Monkey Spotted In Brazil For First Time In Over 80 Years. 2017-08-23. Gizmodo Australia. en. 2020-01-08.
  2. Web site: http://www.cbro.org.br/CBRO/pdf/nat2esp.pdf. https://web.archive.org/web/20081010150900/http://www.cbro.org.br/CBRO/pdf/nat2esp.pdf. dead. 2008-10-10. 2008-10-10. 2020-01-08.