Lars von Hairman

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Lars von haarman (born March 24, 1919 in Lempisaari , Askainen , † October 28, 1998 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish ornithologist and zoologist .

In his Finnish homeland, he conducted intensive studies of the bird world for decades, especially pied flycatchers , capercaillie , black grouse and hazel grouse , eagle owl , woodcock and goshawk .

In 1945 he wrote his doctorate on water birds in the archipelago. In 1968 the professorship in zoology followed. He was a member of the International Congress of Ornithologists and General Secretary at the 12th IOC in Helsinki. In 1978 he was Vice President of the 17th IOC in Berlin and President of the 18th IOC in 1982 in Moscow.

He published around 200 scientific publications ranging from water bird ecology to issues of bird migration as well as population dynamics , ethology , and breeding biology, the dynamics of avi fauna and population biology , which he studied for half a century on his favorite bird species , the pied flycatcher. Apart from his gift for ornithology, he was a poet, painter, draftsman, historian, art, literature and garden lover.

Works

  • The autumn migration to two places in southern Finland and its dependence on external factors , 1943
  • On the biology of waterfowl and shore birds in the archipelago of south-west Finland , 1945
  • Successive Polygamy , 1951
  • The black flycatcher , 1954
  • Adaptation in Hole-Nesting Birds , 1957
  • Population changes in the tufted duck, Aythya fuligula , 1957
  • The decrease of the Corncrake (Crex crex) , 1958
  • The corncrake, the tufted duck, and the barred warbler; some comments , 1960
  • Charles Darwin and ethology , 1960
  • The forehead's lyre; poems from the Swedish , 1962
  • Av samma blod: essayer om djur ochomanniska , 1964
  • Geographical Variations in the Clutch-size of the Pied Flycatcher , 1967
  • The evolution of resident versus migratory habit in birds , 1968
  • Sebum populations, patellar displacement pain Lemsjöholm , 1973
  • The Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea-a new inhabitant of the inshore archipelago , 1982
  • Bird census on wooden island , 1984

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hair Man, Lars von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ornithologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Lempisaari , Askainen
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1998
Place of death Helsinki , Finland