Andrew John Berger

Andrew John Berger ( born August 30, 1915 in Warren, Ohio; † 4 July 1995 Hawaii) was an American ornithologist and anatomist.

Life

1939 Berger graduated from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio with a Bachelor 's degree. From 1940 to 1941 he did field studies in the context of wildlife management from the University of Missouri. In 1942 he married Edith Grace Denniston. From this marriage the children of John Denniston Berger and Diana Marie Berger emerged. From 1941 to 1946 he served as an officer in the United States Army Air Corps. After the war he continued his military service as a reservist in the United States Army Air Forces and was discharged with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1946, Berger wrote in the University of Michigan, where in 1947 he and his master's degree in 1950 with the dissertation "The comparative functional morphology of the pelvic appendage in the three subfamilies of CUCULIFORMES " his doctorate in zoology obtained. From 1951 to 1963 he taught macroscopic anatomy at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Between 1954 and the end of 1963, he carried out field studies to explore the lifestyle and the breeding behavior of the Michiganwaldsängers.

In the spring semester 1964 he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After teaching a year at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India, he returned to Hawaii and had twice the chair of the Zoology Department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa held.

Although his initial interests of the morphology, behavior and the classification of the cuckoos were, he has specialized since 1965 on research into the natural history and living conditions of the endemic avifauna of the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, Andrew John Berger was a dedicated conservationist, nature protection organizations in lawsuits against the U.S. government had been successful in helping with his expert knowledge. So he sat down in a process for the preservation of Palilas to ensure that not only the nature itself is protected, but also their habitat.

Andrew John Berger wrote several works on the Hawaiian avifauna, especially on the Hawaiian goose. He also wrote books on the anatomy of birds and humans. For the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, he wrote in 1957 the comprehensive article "On the anatomy and relationships of Fregilupus varius, to extinct starling from the Mascarene Islands ," where he extinct Hopfstar ( Fregilupus varius) and its relationship to other bird families spoke.

Berger was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithologists ' Union and the National Audubon Society of the State of Michigan.

Works (selection)

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  • Short biography of Berger from the Wilson Bulletin (PDF - file; 141 kB)
  • Ornithologist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1915
  • Died in 1995
  • Man
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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