Maria Koepcke
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Maria Koepcke was a German ornithologist known for her work with Neotropical bird species. Koepcke was a well-respected authority in South American ornithology and her work is still referenced today.
Koepke's Hermit Hummingbird
1838 illustration of the Sira curassow
Frost's Iguana: named after Maria Koepcke and her husband
Juliane Koepcke
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Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. She is the daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke.
Maria Koepcke
…in Miraflores, a suburb of Lima, and managed Casa Humboldt, a visitor's centre, until it closed in 1967. The Koepckes' only child, a daughter named Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke, was born in Lima in 1954. Koepcke died at the age of 47 following the crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian jungle. On 24 December 1971, she and…
Koepcke in April 2019