Edmund Meade-Waldo

Edmund Gustavus Bloomfield Meade - Waldo ( born February 8, 1855 † February 24, 1934 ) was an English ornithologist and conservationist.

He lived in Stonewall Park and Hever Castle in Kent and was a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. In 1883 he became a member of the British Ornithologists ' Union and from 1923 as Vice President.

Meade - Waldo was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. He collected birds in the Atlas in Morocco and Spain. In the Canary Islands, he collected the first to the Canary Islands Oystercatcher (Haematopus meadewaldoi ). As David Armitage Bannerman this bird scientifically described in 1913, he named it in honor of Meade - Waldo. At the beginning of the 20th century Meade - Waldo played an important role in the conservation of the Red Kite in Wales.

Meade - Waldo wrote several articles for The Ibis, for the Avicultaral magazines and for the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists ' Club.

Edmund Meade - Waldo literature on

  • Mullens, William Herbert & Swann, Harry Kirke ( 1917/Nachdruck 1986) A Bibliography of British Ornithology ISBN 0-854-86098-3
  • Obituary Mr. E. G. Meade - Waldo B.. Nature 133, pp. 601-602 ( 21 April 1934 ) | doi: 10.1038/133601b0;
  • Ornithologist
  • Conservationists
  • Briton
  • Born in 1855
  • Died in 1934
  • Man
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