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Gerald H. Thayer's Ornithological Work in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Lesser Antilles (2018)

Wiley, James W. (Author)

Archives of Natural History
Volume: 45
Issue: 1
Pages: 21-39

URI: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/anh.2018.0480

DOI: 10.3366/anh.2018.0480

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Collections Collectors and collecting Ornithology 20th century, early Caribbean Gerald Handerson Thayer

Gerald Handerson Thayer (1883–1939) was an artist, writer and naturalist who worked in North and South America, Europe and the West Indies. In the Lesser Antilles, Thayer made substantial contributions to the knowledge and conservation of birds in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Thayer observed and collected birds throughout much of St Vincent and on many of the Grenadines from January 1924 through to December 1925. Although he produced a preliminary manuscript containing interesting distributional notes and which is an early record of the region's ornithology, Thayer never published the results of his work in the islands. Some 413 bird and bird egg specimens have survived from his work in St Vincent and the Grenadines and are now housed in the American Museum of Natural History (New York City) and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Four hundred and fifty eight specimens of birds and eggs collected by Gerald and his father, Abbott, from other countries are held in museums in the ...

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