Jean Théodore Delacour

Jean Théodore Delacour ( born September 26, 1890 in Paris, † November 5, 1985 in Los Angeles ) was an American ornithologist of French origin. He was the discoverer and breeder of rare birds known (eg, Pink-headed duck ).

Life

Jean Théodore Delacour was on numerous expeditions to Indochina ( Vietnam in particular ), but also Madagascar. 1939 burned down the Chateau Clères and 1940 France was occupied. Delacour, therefore, went to New York and worked in the Bronx Zoo, but also scientifically American Museum of Natural History. After the war he founded the Zoological Garden of Clères new, which he donated to the Muséum national d' histoire naturelle in 1967.

1924 in Annam discovered, dark blue pheasant type was described as imperial pheasant ( Hierophasis imperialis ) of Delacour and Pierre Jabouille. Children of the couple erstentdeckten existed until the 1970s - years in captivity, additional copies were not detected in freedom but for a long time. In 1990, a copy could be caught, the species was investigated and found that this is not an independent taxon, but an occasional crossing of the silver pheasant with the Edwards pheasant or the Vietnam pheasant detail.

Delacour was a founding member of what is now known under the name of BirdLife International Bird Protection Organization.

• Les Oiseaux de L' Indochine française ( 4 vols ) ( 1931)
• Birds of the Philippines (1946 with Ernst Mayr )
• Birds of Malaysia ( 1947)
• The Pheasants of the World (1951 )
• The Waterfowl of the World (4 vols ) ( 1951-1964 )
• Wild Pigeons and Doves (1959 )
• The Living Air: The Memoirs of an Ornithologist (1966 )
• Curassows and Related Birds (1973 with Dean Amadon )