Pierce Brodkorb
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American ornithologist and paleontologist
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#155
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#233
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#78
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#460
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#62
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Pierce Brodkorb's Degrees
- PhD Paleontology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Pierce Brodkorb was an American ornithologist and paleontologist. Interested in birds since childhood, he was taught to prepare birds at the age of 16. Later, he received the opportunity to work as a staff technician in the Ornithology Division of the Field Museum. He entered the University of Michigan in 1933 and obtained his PhD degree in 1936.
Pierce Brodkorb's Published Works
Published Works
- The Birds of Arizona (1964) (340)
- Wildlife of Mexico/The Game Birds and Mammals (1960) (131)
- Vertebrates of the United States (1958) (106)
- Papers in avian paleontology, honoring Pierce Brodkorb (1992) (102)
- Structural Adaptations of the Head and Neck in the Black Skimmer Rynchops nigra Linnaeus (1962) (68)
- Catalog of Fossil Birds: Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes (1968) (60)
- A Giant Flightless Bird from the Pleistocene of Florida (1963) (44)
- An eocene puffbird from wyoming (1970) (25)
- Fossil Anhingas (Aves: Anhingidae) fromEarly Man Sites of Hadar and Omo (Ethiopia) and Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) (1982) (25)
- Neogene Fossil Jays from the Great Plains (1972) (20)
- The Systematic Position of Two Oligocene Birds from Belgium (1962) (17)
- FOSSIL OWLS FROM EARLY MAN SITES OF OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA (1984) (14)
- Birds from the gulf lowlands of southern Mexico (1943) (13)
- New Birds from Southern Mexico (1940) (13)
- INDIVIDUAL VARIATION IN THE WHITE-NECKED RAVEN (1953) (13)
- Two New Birds from the Miocene of Florida (1956) (12)
- Great Auk and Common Murre from a Florida Midden (1960) (11)
- Animal Remains from Four Preceramic Sites in Florida (1956) (11)
- A new species of cormorant (Aves: Phalacrocoracidae) from the Pleistocene of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (1984) (9)
- A New Rail from the Pleistocene of Florida (1952) (9)
- Miocene birds from the Hawthorne formation (1963) (8)
- Notes on fossil turkeys (1964) (7)
- An extinct Pleistocene owl from Cuba (1969) (7)
- The paleospecies of woodpeckers (1970) (7)
- A REVIEW OF THE PLIOCENE LOONS (1953) (5)
- Pleistocene Birds from Eichelberger Cave, Florida (1956) (5)
- Bird remains from pre-Columbian middens in the Virgin Islands (1974) (5)
- A new fossil heron (Aves: Ardeidae) from the Omo Basin of Ethiopia, with remarks on the position of some other species assigned to the Ardeidae (1980) (5)
- New taxa of fossil birds (1965) (5)
- New birds from the District of Soconusco, Chiapas (1938) (5)
- A Sparrow Hawk Gynandromorph (1935) (5)
- Further additions to the avifauna of Paraguay (1938) (4)
- The Type Localities of Some Mexican Birds of the Genera Aphelocoma, cyanocitta, and Peucedramus (1944) (4)
- Geographic Variation in the Band-Tailed Pigeon (1943) (4)
- Notes on Some Races of the Rough-Winged Swallow (1942) (4)
- CIII.—A Pliocene grebe from Florida (1953) (4)
- A new name for Fulica minor Shufeldt (1964) (3)
- Notes on fossil tinamous (1961) (3)
- Five new birds from the Paraguayan Chaco (1938) (3)
- Variation in the North American Forms of Western Flycatcher (1949) (3)
- A new fossil heron ardea howardae new species aves ardeidae from the omo basin of ethiopia with remarks on the position of some other species assigned to the ardeidae (1980) (3)
- Notes on the Food of Some Hawks and Owls (1928) (3)
- A Hybrid in the Genus Dendroica (1934) (3)
- New subspecies of birds from the District of Soconusco, Chiapas (1939) (3)
- Notes from Illinois (3)
- A GIANT FLIGHTLESS BIRD FROM THE PLEISTOCENE (1963) (2)
- A teal from the lower Pliocene of Kansas (1962) (2)
- Nomenclature of Quaternary Coots from Oceanic Islands (1962) (2)
- Rediscovery of Heleodytes chiapensis and Tangara cabanisi (1939) (2)
- The Skeleton and Systematic Position of Gampsonyx (1960) (2)
- Geographic Variation in Thinocorus orbignyanus Geoffroy and Lesson (1928) (2)
- A new species of crested tinamou from Paraguay (1938) (2)
- An ancestral Mourning dove from Rexroad, Kansas (1969) (2)
- A Pliocene teal from South Dakota (1964) (2)
- Some birds from the lowlands of central Veracruz, Mexico (1948) (2)
- Geographical Variation in the Gray Kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis (1950) (2)
- Some birds of the Amazonian islands of Caviana and Maraj (1937) (2)
- The Banded Wrens of Northern Middle America (1947) (2)
- Two new flycatchers of the genus Elaenia (1943) (2)
- Remarks on the genus Limnodromus Wied (1933) (2)
- Birds from the Middle Pliocene of McKay, Oregon (1958) (2)
- Additional Northeastern Illinois Notes (1934) (2)
- A revisionary study of the wren Thryothorus pleurostictus (1942) (1)
- Summer Notes from Southern Illinois (1929) (1)
- A new race of bob-white from interior Chiapas (1942) (1)
- Little Black Rail in Illinois (1926) (1)
- A new flycatcher from Texas (1935) (1)
- A new genus for Empidonax atriceps Salvin (1936) (1)
- The pygmy owl of the District of Soconusco, Chiapas (1941) (1)
- Paired Ovaries in the Marsh Hawk (1928) (1)
- A new Pitta from Palawan, Philippine Islands (1934) (1)
- Taxonomic Notes on the Laughing Falcon (1948) (1)
- Notes from Southwestern Michigan (1926) (1)
- Pleistocene birds from American Falls, Idaho (1963) (1)
- Geographical variation in Belonopterus chilensis (Molina) (1935) (1)
- A new hawk from southern Mexico (1940) (1)
- Geographical variation in the Pion Jay (1936) (1)
- Recent Records of Some Uncommon Michigan Birds (1936) (0)
- The name of the western race of red-headed woodpecker (0)
- The chachalaca of interior Chiapas (1942) (0)
- Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus in Southern Mexico (1929) (0)
- Two new subspecies of the red-shafted flicker (1935) (0)
- Bird Notes from the Chicago Area (1933) (0)
- Notes from Central Illinois (1934) (0)
- Notes on Some Birds Uncommon in Northern Illinois (1930) (0)
- A new subspecies of bittern from western North America (1936) (0)
- Two undescribed South American barbets (1939) (0)
- The Name of a Fossil Rail and Its Date of Publication (1963) (0)
- Allozyme Variation Among Large, Small and Cannibal Morphs of the Tiger Salamander Inhabiting the Llano Estacado of West Texas (1981) (0)
- Notes on the races of RJiea americana (Linnaeus) (1939) (0)
- Notes from Berrien County, Michigan (1929) (0)
- Notes on Some Uncommon Birds in the Chicago Region (1927) (0)
- Notes on Two Rare Birds in Chiapas, Mexico (1943) (0)
- The southern races of the great ant-shrike, Taraba major (1937) (0)
- A Key to Florida Birds Henry M. Stevenson (1962) (0)
- The Newfoundland Robin in Michigan (1942) (0)
- Regulus Calendula Breeding in Michigan (0)
- Accession 92-034 Pierce Brodkorb Papers, 1952-1979 (1952) (0)
- The rufous-browed wrens of Chiapas, Mexico (1943) (0)
- White-Tailed Tropic-Bird, an Addition to the Philippine Avifauna (1969) (0)
- Comment on the proposed grant of precedence to THRESKIORNITHIDAE Richmond, 1917 (Aves) over PLATALEINAE Bonaparte, 1838 (1986) (0)
- The Type Locality of the Florida Sandhill Crane (1955) (0)
- A race of woodhewer from the Alta Parana (1941) (0)
- A new subspecies of Trogon citreolus (1942) (0)
- Three new birds from Paraguay (1939) (0)
- New or noteworthy birds from the Paraguayan Chaco (1937) (0)
- A new genus of tyrant-flycatchers (1937) (0)
- A new ovenbird from Paraguay (0)
- Some Birds of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming (1938) (0)
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