The American Ornithological Society is an ornithological organization based in the United States. The society was formed in October 2016 by the merger of the American Ornithologists' Union and the Coo
Symbol of American Ornithologists' Union, the extinct great auk
Participants of the 13th Congress of the AOU
Original letter to AOU founders, dated August 1, 1883
Robert Ridgway
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Robert Ridgway was an American ornithologist specializing in systematics. He was appointed in 1880 by Spencer Fullerton Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, to be the first full-time curat
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…From New Brunswick: Montague Chamberlain. From the District of Columbia: Elliott Coues, D. Webster Prentiss, and Robert Ridgway. From Louisiana: Robert Wilson Shufeldt…
Robert Ridgway sitting
Portrait in Bird Lore 1903
Ridgway (right) with D. G. Elliot and A. K. Fisher in Alaska, 1899
Grave marker of Robert Ridgway at Bird Haven