List of ornithologists explained

This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also .

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 (皇嗣秋筱宮文仁親王) – Japan
• Luigi d'Albertis – Italy
• John Warren Aldrich – US
• Boyd Alexander – England
• Christopher James Alexander – England
• Horace Alexander – England/US
• Wilfred Backhouse Alexander – England
• 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
• Bernard Altum – Germany
• Dean Amadon – US
• George W. Archibald – Canada/US
• John Ash – England
• Edwin Ashby – Australia
• Henry Philemon Attwater – England/Canada/US
• Yves Aubry – Canada
• Jean Victoire Audouin – France
• John James Audubon – France/US
• Oliver L. Austin – US
• Félix de Azara - Spain

B

• Walther Bacmeister – Germany
• Alfred Marshall Bailey – US
• Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey – US
• Jean-Baptiste Bailly – France
• Spencer Fullerton Baird – US
• E. C. Stuart Baker – England
• Russell Balda – US
• August Carl Eduard Baldamus – Germany
• Jean-Christophe Balouet – France
• Vladimir Balthasar – Czech Republic
• Betsy Bang – US
• Outram Bangs – US
• V. B. Banjkovski – Russia
• Richard C. Banks – US
• David Armitage Bannerman – UK
• Phyllis Barclay-Smith – UK
• Pierre Barrère – France
• Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland
• Walter B. Barrows – US
• George A. Bartholomew – US
• Edward Bartlett – UK
• William Bartram – US
• Charles Foster Batchelder – US
• George Latimer Bates – US
• E. V. Baxter – Scotland
• Robert Cecil Beavan – England
• Johann Matthäus Bechstein – Germany
• Rollo Beck – US
• Jean-Baptiste Bécœur – France
• 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 – England
• Arthur Cleveland Bent – US
• Andrew John Berger – US
• E. Alexander Bergstrom – US
• Hans von Berlepsch – Germany
• Grace Berlin – US
• Jacques Berlioz - France
• Victor Besaucèle – France
• Thomas Bewick – England
• Valentin Bianchi – Russia
• Eugene P. Bicknell – US
• Biswamoy Biswas – India
• Gladys Black – US
• Emmet Reid Blake – US
• William Thomas Blanford – England
• August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius – Germany
• Johann Heinrich Blasius – Germany
• Rudolf Blasius – Germany
• Edward Blyth – England
• George Augustus Boardman – US/Canada
• José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage – Portugal
• Walter Joseph Bock (1933–2022) – US
• Pieter Boddaert – Netherlands
• Hans von Boetticher – Germany
• 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 – England (1875–1922)
• Bernard Borggreve – Germany
• José Ignacio Borrero – Cuba
• Donald J. Borror – US
• Adolphe Boucard – France
• Jules Bourcier – France
• Frank Swift Bourns – US
• Louis Hippolyte Bouteille – France
• Johann Friedrich von Brandt – Germany/Russia
• Rex Brasher – US
• Mark Brazil – England/Japan
• 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 – England
• Allan Brooks – Canada
• William Edwin Brooks – Ireland/India
• Herbert Brown – US
• Nathan Clifford Brown – US
• Thomas Browne – England
• Carl Friedrich Bruch – Germany
• Friedrich Brüggemann – Germany
• Morten Thrane Brünnich – Denmark
• William Alanson Bryan – US
• Henry Bryant – US
• Theodor Bühler-Lindenmeyer (1859–1899) – Switzerland
• Walter Buller – New Zealand
• William John Burchell – England
• Hermann Burmeister – Germany
• Edward H. Burtt Jr. – US
• Arthur Lennox Butler – India/England
• Edward Arthur Butler – England
• 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 – England/Singapore
• Robert Ernest Cheesman – England
• Tso-hsin Cheng (郑作新) – China
• George Kruck Cherrie – US/Costa Rica
• John Lewis Childs – US
• Glen Chilton – Canada/Australia
• Leslie Christidis – Australia
• Tadeusz Chrostowski – Poland
• Charles Chubb – England
• Phillip Clancey – South Africa
• Austin Hobart Clark – US
• Nigel Cleere – England
• 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
• Emilio Cornalia – Italy
• Charles B. Cory – US
• Elliott Coues – US
• John Courtney – Australia
• Lee Crandall – US
• Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar – Germany
• Maunsell Crosby – US
• Georges Cuvier – France
• Ede Czynk – Hungary

D

• Roberto Dabbene – Italy/Argentina
• François Marie Daudin – France
• Priya Davidar – India
• William Leon Dawson – US
• William Ryan Dawson – US
• Charles Walter De Vis – England/Australia
• C. Douglas Deane – UK
• Ruthven Deane – US
• Côme-Damien Degland – France
• Dudley DeGroot – US
• Herbert Girton Deignan – US
• Jean Théodore Delacour – France/US
• Jacques Delamain – France
• Adolphe Delattre – France
• Georgi Petrovich Dementiev – USSR
• Louis Denise – France
• Antoon Emeric Marcel De Roo – Belgium
• Jean-Marie Derscheid – Belgium
• René Louiche Desfontaines – France
• Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs – France
• Barbara DeWolfe – US
• Douglas Dewar – England
• 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
• Viktor Rafaelyevich Dolnik – USSR/Russia
• Janusz Domaniewski – Poland
• Caroline Dormon – US
• Jean Dorst – France
• Henry Eeles Dresser – England
• Rudolf Drost – Germany
• Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois – Belgium
• Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Belgium
• Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix – France
• Andrzej Dunajewski – Poland
• William Dutcher – US
• Jonathan Dwight – US
• Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki – Poland

E

• George Edwards – England, "Father of British ornithology"
• Elon Howard Eaton – US
• Scott V. Edwards – US
• Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg – Germany
• Eugene Eisenmann – US
• Walter Elmer Ekblaw – US
• Carl R. Eklund – US
• Daniel Giraud Elliot – US
• Carlo von Erlanger – Germany
• Arthur Humble Evans – England
• Eduard Friedrich Eversmann – Germany
• Thomas Campbell Eyton – England

F

• Frederik Faber – Denmark
• Robert Falla – New Zealand
• Donald S. Farner – US
• Norman Joseph Favaloro – Australia
• Walter Faxon – US
• Alan Feduccia – US
• Christoph Feldegg – Austria
• Frank Finn – England
• Otto Finsch – Germany
• Gustav Fischer – Germany
• Albert Kenrick Fisher – US
• James Maxwell McConnell Fisher – England
• Kenneth Fisher – England
• R. S. R. Fitter – England
• John W. Fitzpatrick – US
• Jim Flegg – England
• James Henry Fleming – Canada
• Edward Howe Forbush – US
• Joseph Forshaw – Australia
• Johann Reinhold Forster – Poland-Lithuania/England
• James Franklin – England/India
• Louis Fraser – England
• Percy Evans Freke – Ireland
• Herbert Friedmann – US
• Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil
• János Frivaldszky – Hungary
• Louis Agassiz Fuertes – US
• Max Fürbringer – Germany

G

• Gaszton Gaál – Hungary
• Hans Friedrich Gadow – Germany
• Joseph Paul Gaimard – France
• Tim Gallagher – US
• William Gambel – US
• Wulf Gatter – Germany
• Heinrich Gaetke – Germany
• Prosper Garnot – France
• Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – France
• Zéphirin Gerbe – France
• Enrico Hillyer Giglioli – Italy
• Frank Gill – US
• Theodore Gill – US
• Ernest Thomas Gilliard – US
• Robert Gillmor – England
• Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Netherlands/Belgium
• Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov – USSR
• Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger – Germany
• Johann Friedrich Gmelin – Germany
• Frederick DuCane Godman – England
• Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen – England
• Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez – Spain
• Derek Goodwin – England
• Philip Henry Gosse – England
• John Gould – England
• Rolf Grantsau – Germany/Brazil
• George Robert Gray – England
• John Edward Gray (brother of George Robert) – England
• Andrew Jackson Grayson – US
• James Greenway – US
• Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon – England
• Joseph Grinnell – US
• Ludlow Griscom – US
• Hermann Grote – Germany
• Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard – France
• Johan Ernst Gunnerus – Norway
• Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning – Netherlands/South Africa
• John Henry Gurney Jr. – UK
• John Henry Gurney Sr. – UK
• Eberhard Gwinner – Germany
• Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe – Sweden

H

• Masauji Hachisuka (蜂須賀正氏) – Japan
• Jack Hailman – United States
• Mihkel Härms – Estonia
• Yngvar Hagen – Norway
• Pat Hall – England
• Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany
• Edward Hargitt – Scotland
• Herbert Hastings Harington – British India
• Edward Harris – US
• Colin Harrison – England
• Tom Harrisson – Argentina/England
• Ernst Hartert – Germany
• Gustav Hartlaub – Germany
• François Haverschmidt – Netherlands
• Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (published as Viscount Walden) – Scotland
• Helen Hays – US
• Cornelis Hazevoet – Netherlands
• Gerhard Heilmann – Denmark
• Ferdinand Heine – Germany
• Bernd Heinrich – US
• Katharina Heinroth – Germany
• Oskar Heinroth – Germany
• Carl Eduard Hellmayr – Austria
• Wilhelm Hemprich – Germany
• George Morrison Reid Henry – British Ceylon/England
• Henry Wetherbee Henshaw – US
• James Hepburn – England/Canada
• Ottó Herman – Hungary
• Johann Hermann – France
• Theodor von Heuglin – Germany
• Joseph Hickey – US
• Warren Billingsley Hitchcock – Australia
• John Hobbs – UK/Australia
• Brian Houghton Hodgson – England/India
• 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
• Andries Hoogerwerf – Netherlands
• Milton N. Hopkins – US
• Thomas Horsfield – US
• Henry Eliot Howard – England
• William Henry Hudson – Argentina/England
• Allan Octavian Hume – England/India
• Rob Hume – England
• Syed Abdulla Hussain – India
• Frederick Hutton – England/New Zealand

I

• Hermann von Ihering – Germany/Brazil
• Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger – Germany
• Collingwood Ingram – England
• Tom Iredale – UK/Australia
• Hussein Adan Isack – Kenya
• Yuri Andreyevich Isakov – Russia/USSR

J

• Pierre Jabouille – France
• Frederick John Jackson – England/Uganda
• Honoré Jacquinot – France
• Helen F. James – US
• Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet – Scotland
• Konstanty Jelski – Poland
• Thomas C. Jerdon – England/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 – England
• Charles Keeler – US
• John Gerrard Keulemans – Netherlands
• Charles Rollin Keyes – US
• Alexander Keyserling – Germany
• Lavkumar Khachar – India
• Norman Boyd Kinnear – Scotland
• Jared Kirtland – US
• Heinrich von Kittlitz – Germany
• Niels Kjærbølling – Denmark
• Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany
• C. Boden Kloss – England/Malaya
• Karel Kněžourek - Czechoslovakia
• 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
• Heinrich Kuhl – Germany
• Hans Kummerlöwe (or Kumerloeve after World War II) – Germany
• Nagahisa Kuroda (黒田長久) – Japan
• Nagamichi Kuroda (黒田長礼) – Japan
• Sayako Kuroda (黒田清子) – Japan

L

• David Lack – England
• Elizabeth Lack – England
• Frédéric de Lafresnaye – France
• Hamilton Mack Laing - Canada
• Christian Ludwig Landbeck – Germany
• Bill Lane – Australia
• Amelia Laskey – US
• John Latham – England
• Alfred Laubmann – Germany
• Louis Lavauden – France
• George Newbold Lawrence – US
• Edgar Leopold Layard – England/Ceylon
• Dudley Le Souef – Australia
• Elsie P. Leach – England
• William Elford Leach – England
• John Legg – England
• William Vincent Legge – Australia
• Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler – Germany
• Boonsong Lekagul – Thailand
• Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour – France
• René Lesson – France
• François Levaillant – France
• Graceanna Lewis – US
• Félix Louis L'Herminier – France
• Hinrich Lichtenstein – Germany
• Karl Theodor Liebe – Germany
• Carl Linnaeus – Swedish
• Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford – England
• Bradley C. Livezey – US
• Victor Loche – France
• Hans Löhrl – Germany
• Einar Lönnberg – Sweden
• Konrad Lorenz – Austria
• Harald von Loudon – Germany
• Michel Louette – Belgium
• Herman L. Løvenskiold – Norway
• Percy Lowe – England
• George Lowery – US
• Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar – Latvia/Germany/Russia
• Hubert Lynes – Wales/England

M

• James Macdonald – Scotland/Australia
• William MacGillivray – Scotland
• Cyril Mackworth-Praed – England
• Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary
• Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany
• Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky – Russia
• Alfred Malherbe – France
• Louis Mandelli – Italy, India
• Saverio Manetti – Italy
• Stephen Marchant – Australia
• Judy Kellogg Markowsky – US
• Charles Henry Tilson Marshall – England/India
• Kathy Martin – Canada
• Ian J. Mason – Australia
• George Masters – Australia
• Gregory Mathews – Australia
• Ernst Mayr – US
• George A. McCall – US
• Elliott McClure – US/Southeast Asia
• John Porter McCown – US
• Allan Reginald McEvey – Australia
• Edward Avery McIlhenny – US
• Thomas McIlwraith – Canada
• Charles McKay – US
• Chris Mead – England
• Edgar Alexander Mearns – US
• Gerlof Mees – Netherlands
• M.F.M. Meiklejohn – England
• Annie Meinertzhagen – Scotland
• Richard Meinertzhagen – England
• Wilhelm Meise – Germany
• Auguste Ménégaux – France
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier – Russia
• Christopher Merret – England
• C. Hart Merriam – US
• Olivier Messiaen – France
• Friedrich Wilhelm Meves - Germany/Sweden
• 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
• Juan Ignacio Molina – Chile
• Edgardo Moltoni – Italy
• Burt Monroe – US
• George Montagu – England
• John J. Montgomery – US
• Frederic Moore – England
• Robert Thomas Moore – US
• Reginald Ernest Moreau – England
• Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen – Denmark
• Guy Mountfort – England
• Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller – Germany
• Salomon Müller – Germany
• Étienne Mulsant – France
• Robert Cushman Murphy – US
• Durno Murray – Australia

N

• Johann Natterer – Austria
• Johann Friedrich Naumann – Germany
• René de Naurois – France
• K. K. Neelakantan – India
• Adolph Nehrkorn – Germany
• Henry Nehrling – US
• Edward William Nelson – US
• Thomas Hudson Nelson – England
• Oscar Neumann – Germany
• Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia
• Alfred Newton – England
• Edward Newton – England
• Ian Newton – England
• Margaret Morse Nice – US
• Michael John Nicoll – UK/Egypt
• John Treadwell Nichols – US
• Max Nicholson – England
• Günther Niethammer – Germany
• Alexander von Nordmann – Finland
• Alfred John North – Australia
• Cornelius Nozeman – Netherlands

O

• Eugene W. Oates – England/Burma
• Harry C. Oberholser – US
• Bill Oddie – England
• William Robert Ogilvie-Grant – Scotland
• Claes Christian Olrog – Sweden/Argentina
• Storrs L. Olson – US
• Eduard Daniël van Oort – Netherlands
• Alcide d'Orbigny – France
• George Ord – US
• Gordon Orians – US
• Wilfred Hudson Osgood – US
• Émile Oustalet – France

P

• Peter Simon Pallas – Germany
• Shane A. Parker – England/Australia
• Theodore A. Parker III – US
• Kenneth Carroll Parkes – US
• Carl Parrot – Germany
• Titian Peale – US
• Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US
• August von Pelzeln – Austria
• Thomas Pennant – Wales
• James Lee Peters – US
• Wilhelm Peters – Germany
• Roger Tory Peterson – US
• Sewall Pettingill – US
• William Henry Phelps – US/Venezuela
• William H. Phelps Jr. – Venezuela
• Rodolfo Amando Philippi – Germany/Chile
• Allan Robert Phillips – US
• John Charles Phillips – US
• Olivério Pinto – Brazil
• Frank Pitelka – US
• Graham Pizzey – Australia
• Sally Poncet – Australia
• Pilai Poonswad – Thailand
• John du Pont – US
• Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko – USSR(Ukraine)
• Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. – US
• Josef Prokop Pražák – Bohemia
• Alexandre Prigogine – Belgium
• Aleksandr Promptov – Russia/USSR
• Nikolay Przhevalsky (or Przewalski) – Russia
• Jacques Pucheran – France

Q

• Jean René Constant Quoy – France
• Vo Quy – Vietnam

R

• Dioscoro S. Rabor – Philippines
• Stamford Raffles – England/Singapore
• Edward Pierson Ramsay – Australia
• Austin L. Rand – Canada
• Pamela C. Rasmussen – US
• Sushma Reddy – India/US
• Ludwig Reichenbach – Germany
• Anton Reichenow – Germany
• Pauline Reilly – Australia
• Bernhard Rensch – Germany
• John Richardson – Scotland/England
• Charles Wallace Richmond – US
• Robert S. Ridgely – US
• John Livzey Ridgway – US
• Robert Ridgway – US
• Joseph Harvey Riley – US
• Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul – Scotland
• Sidney Dillon Ripley – US
• Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania
• Chandler Robbins – US
• Austin Roberts – South Africa
• Thomas Sadler Roberts – US
• Herbert C. Robinson – England/Malaya
• Edward Hearle Rodd – England
• Theodore Roosevelt – US
• Hermann von Rosenberg – Germany
• Adriaan Joseph van Rossem – US
• Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild – England
• Frank Rozendaal – Netherlands
• Eduard Rüppell – Germany
• Karl Russ – Germany(Prussia)
• Erich Rutschke – Germany
• Wladyslaw Rydzewski – Poland

S

• Edward Sabine – Ireland
• John Hall Sage – US
• Finn Salomonsen – Denmark
• Tommaso Salvadori – Italy
• Osbert Salvin – England
• Howard Saunders – England
• William Edwin Saunders – Canada
• William Savage – US
• Paolo Savi – Italy
• Hans Schaanning – Norway
• Alfred Schifferli – Switzerland
• Eiler Lehn Schiøler – Denmark
• Hermann Schlegel – Germany/Netherlands
• Richard Schodde – Australia
• Ernst Schüz – Germany
• Philip Sclater – England
• William Lutley Sclater – England
• Giovanni Antonio Scopoli – Austria/Tyrol
• J. Michael Scott – US
• Peter Scott – England
• William Earl Dodge Scott - US
• Jan Bogusław Szczepski – Poland
• Henry Seebohm – England
• Josef Seilern – Austria/Czech
• Prideaux John Selby – England
• George B. Sennett – US
• Pavel Vladimirovich Serebrovsky – Russia/USSR
• William Serle – Scotland
• Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (or Severtsov) – Russia
• Richard Bowdler Sharpe – England
• George Shaw – England
• Frederick H. Sheldon – US
• George Ernest Shelley – England
• Althea Sherman – US
• Hadoram Shirihai – Israel
• Lester L. Short – US
• Charles Sibley – US
• David Allen Sibley – US
• Helmut Sick – Brazil
• Hendrik Cornelis Siebers – Netherlands
• Eugène Simon – French
• Ken Simpson – Australia
• Vasily Nikolaevich Skalon – Russia/USSR
• Cuthbert John Skead – South Africa
• Alexander Skutch – US
• Tore Slagsvold – Norway
• Andrew Smith – Scotland
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby – England
• Bertram E. Smythies – England
• Emilie Snethlage – Germany/Brazil
• David Snow – England
• Barbara Snow – England
• Jan Sokolowski – Poland
• James Mortimer Southwick – US
• Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg – USSR
• Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden
• Johann Baptist von Spix – Germany
• 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 – England
• Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic
• Jean Stolzmann (also as Jan Sztolcman) – Poland
• Witmer Stone – US
• Robert W. Storer – US
• Erwin Stresemann – Germany
• Hugh Edwin Strickland – England
• Robert Stroud – US
• Noah Strycker – US
• Jacob H. Studer – US
• Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm – Germany
• Johann Wilhelm Sturm – Germany
• J. Denis Summers-Smith – Scotland/England
• Carl Jakob Sundevall – Sweden
• Petr Sushkin – Russia
• Ernst Sutter – Switzerland
• George Miksch Sutton – US
• William Swainson – England/New Zealand
• Charles Swinhoe – England/India
• Robert Swinhoe – England/Formosa
• William Henry Sykes – England/India
• Jan Sztolcman (also as Jean Stolzmann) – Poland

T

• Władysław Taczanowski – Poland
• Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Netherlands
• John Kenneth Terres – US
• John Eliot Thayer – US
• Gerhard Thielcke – Germany
• Johannes Thienemann – Germany
• Ludwig Thienemann – Germany
• William Lay Thompson – US
• Arthur Landsborough Thomson – Scotland
• Claud B. Ticehurst – England
• Samuel Tickell – India
• Luuk Tinbergen – Netherlands
• Niko Tinbergen – Netherlands
• Friedrich Tischler – Prussia/Germany
• Walter Edmond Clyde Todd – US
• John David Digues La Touche – England/Ireland
• Charles Haskins Townsend – US
• John Kirk Townsend – US
• Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. – US
• Alberto O. Treganza – US
• Roland Trimen – England/South Africa
• Henry Baker Tristram – England
• Johann Jakob von Tschudi – Switzerland
• Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen – Austria
• Bernard Tucker – England
• Marmaduke Tunstall – England
• William Turner – England
• Konstanty Tyzenhauz – Poland

U

• Miklós Udvardy – Hungary/Canada
• Tatsuo Utagawa (宇田川竜男) – Japan

V

• Dirk Van den Abeele – Belgium
• Jacques Van Impe – Belgium
• Victor Van Someren – Australia/Kenya
• Josselyn Van Tyne – US
• Charles Vaurie – France/US
• Édouard Verreaux – France
• Jules Verreaux – France
• Louis Pierre Vieillot – France
• Nicholas Aylward Vigors – Ireland/England
• Keith Vinicombe – England
• William Vogt – US
• Karel Voous – Netherlands

W

• Johann Georg Wagler – Germany
• Will Wagstaff – Wales/England
• Veleslav Wahl – Czechoslovakia
• Johan August Wahlberg – Sweden
• Lawrence H. Walkinshaw – US
• Alfred Russel Wallace – England
• Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay – England
• George Waterston – Scotland
• Richard Weatherly – Australia
• Hugo Weigold – Germany
• Alexander Wetmore – US
• Hugh Whistler – India
• Joseph Whitaker – Italy/England
• Gilbert White – England
• Henry Luke White – Australia
• Otto Widmann – US
• Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied – Germany
• John Wiens – US
• George Willett – US
• Lionel William Wiglesworth – England
• Iolo Williams – Wales
• Francis Willughby – UK
• Alexander Wilson – Scotland/US
• Kerry-Jayne Wilson – NZ
• Scott Barchard Wilson – England
• Marie Winn – US
• Harry Witherby – England
• Kazimierz Wodzicki – Poland/New Zealand
• Hans Edmund Wolters – Germany
• Won Hong-gu, 원홍구 – North Korea (father of Won Pyong-oh)
• Won Pyong-oh, 원병오 – South Korea
• Samuel Washington Woodhouse – US
• John Woinarski – Australia
• Dean Conant Worcester – US
• Philogène Wytsman – Belgium

X

• John Xantus – Hungary

Y

• Yoshimaro Yamashina (山階芳麿) – Japan
• William Yarrell – England
• John Yealland – England

Z

• Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny – Ukraine/Russia
• John Todd Zimmer – US
• Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy

See also

• List of ornithologists abbreviated names
• List of birdwatchers

External links

• http://www.zoonomen.net/bio/ind.html