Austin L. Rand
Austin Loomer Rand ( born December 16, 1905 in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada, † November 6, 1982 in Lake Placid, Florida) was a Canadian ornithologist.
Rand grew up near Wolfville. He studied zoologist at Acadia University and received the degree of Bachelor of Science. 1961 Acadia University awarded him the honorary doctorate.
As a graduate student at Cornell University in 1929, he took part in an expedition to Madagascar, of which he in 1936 his doctoral thesis entitled The distribution and habits of Madagascar birds wrote. During the expedition, edge worked together with the zoologist and philanthropist Richard Archbold, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship. From the 1930s led Archbold Expeditions to New Guinea, where participated edge. 1941 built Austin Loomer Rand and Richard Archbold Archbold Biological Station in the Lake Placid in Florida, an independent research organization that serves the research and conservation of the flora and fauna of Florida
1942 edge zoologist at Canadian Museum of Nature ( formerly National Museum of Canada), where he worked with the ornithologist Percy A. Taverner and the mom lodges Rudolph Martin Anderson. From 1947 to 1955 he was curator of birds at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, 1955-1970 Chief Curator of Zoology in the same museum. In the 1940s and 1950s, he undertook several expeditions with Melvin Alvah Traylor junior to Africa and South America.
From 1962 to 1964 he was president of the American Ornithologists ' Union.
Austin Loomer Rand first described species of birds like the Archbold Bowerbird ( Archboldia papuensis ), the Mamberanolederkopf ( Philemon brassi ) and the Angola glasses Strangler ( Prionops gabela )