Werner Rüppell

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Werner Rüppell (born February 25, 1908 Kirchlinteln , † July 4, 1945 ) was a German ornithologist .

Rüppell received his doctorate in Berlin in 1933 (physiology and acoustics of the bird's voice). He was an employee of Oskar Heinroth and Ernst Schüz in the Rossitten ornithological station . His research area was bird migration and orientation of birds.

In the 1930s he undertook experiments in which starlings were removed from their territories all over Germany and released again from a distant place (for example with Wilhelm Schein from Winsen an der Luhe from Winsen to Hanover to the State Museum) and found that many in returned to their territory if they had experience as migratory birds, if they had no experience but stayed at the place. He undertook similar experiments in other birds ( spiral neck , barn swallow , hawk , red-backed shrike ) and some succeeded from Madrid or Marseille way back. He also studied the migration behavior of white storks, Siberian ducks and swallows. Most of the publications appeared in the journal Der Vogelzug (publisher Ernst Schüz).

Gustav Kramer also undertook research on orientation during bird flight at the ornithological station Rossiten in the 1930s and continued it after the war in Wilhelmshaven.

He was the father of Hermann Rüppell .

Fonts

  • Physiology and acoustics of the bird's voice, Journal f. Ornithology, Volume 81, 1933, pp. 433-542
  • About the migration of German swallows in Europe, Der Vogelzug, Volume 3, 1932, pp. 10-17
  • with Oskar Heinroth: The birds of the German forest, in: The German forest, its life and its beauty, Berlin: Ullstein 1935
  • with Wilhelm Schein:: About finding home free-living starlings after being transported after one year imprisonment at their hometown, Der Vogelzug, Volume 12, 1941, pp. 49–56
  • Attempting a new stork migration map, Der Vogelzug, Volume 13, 1942, pp. 35–39

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ They saw it as an argument against the thesis of Erwin Stresemann and C. Viguier (1882) that birds would orient themselves to the earth's magnetic field. Rüppell, Schein, Der Vogelzug, Volume 12, 1941, p. 55
  2. ↑ Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie, Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin, Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 138f
  3. ↑ Publications on ZOBODAT
personal data
SURNAME Rüppell, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchlinteln
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1945