Reginald Ernest Moreau

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Reginald Ernest Moreau (born May 29, 1897 in Kingston upon Thames , England , † May 30, 1970 in Hereford , England) was a British ornithologist.

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In 1914, Moreau graduated from Kingston Grammar School. Due to unfit for field service, he was initially employed by the War Office in the office and was then transferred to the national audit office. From 1920 to 1927 he was stationed in Egypt . From 1928 to 1946 he worked as an archivist at the Amani Biological-Agricultural Institute in Tanzania . In his spare time he carried out ornithological studies and from 1937 to 1944 he collected data on the nesting activity of birds, about which he wrote an important article in the British bird journal Ibis in 1944. Here he explained that the clutches in the high altitude regions are larger than those in the tropics. From 1941 to 1960 an important correspondence connected him with the ornithologist James Paul Chapin of the American Museum of Natural History . In 1946 Moreau retired from community service and returned to England. From 1946 to 1960 he was editor of the journal Ibis of the British Ornithologists' Union . From 1947 to 1966 he worked at the Edward Gray Institute at Oxford University in the research department. In 1949 he became an honorary member of the American Ornithologists' Union . From 1960 to 1965 he was President of the British Ornithologists' Union. In 1966 he was awarded the Godman Salvin Medal of the British Ornithologists' Union. Moreau described several East African bird taxa, including the amaninectar bird , the taita fine warbler, and the rust-headed fox warbler . In addition, he transferred the theory of ice age retreats to the bird world in Africa.

Works (selection)

  • An Introduction to the Epiphytic Orchids of East Africa . 1943
  • Clutch size: a comparative study, with reference to African birds . Ibis 86: 286-347, 1944
  • Variation in the Western Zosteropidae (aves) . 1957
  • A Study of the Rare Birds of Africa . 1962
  • The Bird Faunas of Africa and Its Islands . 1966
  • The Departed Village: Berrick Salome at the Turn of the Century . 1968
  • An Atlas of Speciation in African Passerine Birds . 1970
  • The Palaearctic-African Bird Migration Systems . 1972 (posthumously, completed by James Monk)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Gomes da Rocha, Igor L. Käfer: What has become of the refugia hypothesis to explain biological diversity in Amazonia? in "Ecology and Evolution", March 27, 2019, online , paragraphs 2 and 4.
personal data
SURNAME Moreau, Reginald Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Thames
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1970
Place of death Hereford