Reginald Ernest Moreau

Reginald Ernest Moreau ( * May 29, 1897 in Kingston upon Thames, England; † May 30, 1970 in Hereford, England ) was a British ornithologist.

Life and work

1914 graduated from Moreau at Kingston Grammar School. Because Felddienstuntauglichkeit he was first employed by the War Office in the office and was then added to the National Audit Office. From 1920 to 1927 he was stationed in Egypt. From 1928 to 1946 he worked as an archivist at the Biology and Agricultural Institute Amani in Tanzania. In his spare time he ran ornithological studies and from 1937 to 1944, he collected data on the Nisttätigkeit of birds, of which he in 1944 in the British Journal bird Ibis wrote an important trade item. Here he argued that the nest are larger in the high altitude, as the in the tropics. From 1941 to 1960 linked him an important correspondence with the ornithologist James Paul Chapin from the American Museum of Natural History. 1946 different Moreau out of the civil service and returned to England. From 1946 to 1960 he was editor of the journal Ibis of the British Ornithologists ' Union. From 1947 to 1966 he worked at the Edward Grey Institute at Oxford University in the research department. In 1949 he was made an honorary member of the American Ornithologists ' Union. From 1960 to 1965 he was president of the British Ornithologists ' Union. In 1966 he was awarded the Godman - Salvin Medal of the British Ornithologists ' Union. Moreau described several East African Vogeltaxa, including the Amaninektarvogel, the Taita fine singer and the rust head - fox singer.

Works (selection)

  • An Introduction to the Epiphytic Orchids of East Africa. 1943
  • Clutch size: a comparative study, with reference to African birds. Ibis 86:286-347, 1944
  • Variation in the Western Zosteropidae ( aves ). 1957
  • A Study of the Rare Birds of Africa. 1962
  • The Bird Faunas of Africa and Its Islands. 1966
  • An Atlas of Speciation in African Passerine Birds. 1970
  • The Palaearctic - African Bird Migration Systems. 1972 ( posthumously, of James Monk completed )
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