Richard Bowdler Sharpe
British ornithologist
Died when: 62 years 33 days (745 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Richard Bowdler Sharpe (22 November 1847 – 25 December 1909) was an English zoologist and ornithologist who worked as curator of the bird collection at the British Museum of natural history.
In the course of his career he published several monographs on bird groups and produced a multi-volume catalogue of the specimens in the collection of the museum.
He described many new species of bird and also has had species named in his honour by other ornithologists including Sharpe's longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) and Sharpe's starling (Poeoptera sharpii).
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