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She and her daughter Johanna sold flower pictures to art collector Agnes Block. By 1698 Merian lived in a well-furnished house on Kerkstraat. [10]: 166 In 1699, the city of Amsterdam granted Merian permission to travel to Suriname in South America, along with her younger daughter Dorothea Maria. On 10 July, the fifty-two year old Merian and her ...
Maria Koepcke (born Maria Emilie Anna von Mikulicz-Radecki, 15 May 1924 – c. 24 December 1971) was a German ornithologist known for her work with Neotropical bird species. Koepcke was a well-respected authority in South American ornithology and her work is still referenced today. For her efforts, she is commemorated in the scientific names of ...
Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats. The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, lightning struck the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 where she became the sole survivor of the crash. She fell 3,000 m (10,000 ft) while strapped to her seat and suffered ...
Image credits: @dianamurguta Another extraordinary butterfly to mention could be Queen Alexandra's birdwing. They are known as the biggest butterflies in the world, reaching an impressive wingspan ...
Annemarie Heinrich (9 January 1912 – 22 September 2005) was a German-born naturalized Argentine photographer, who specialized in portraits and nude photographs. Heinrich is considered one of Argentina's most important photographers.
Frieda Riess (1890–c. 1955), German portrait photographer in the 1920s with a studio in central Berlin; Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997) Hildegard Rosenthal (1913–1990), German photographer who became a photojournalist and a noted photographer after her emigration to Brazil.
This is a list of bird species recorded in South America. South America is the "Bird Continent": It boasts records of 3492 species, more than any other. (Much larger Eurasia is second with 3467.) Colombia's list alone numbers 1910 confirmed species, and both Brazil's and Peru's confirmed lists also exceed 1860.
Lists of butterflies of South America (4 P) * Butterflies of the Caribbean (3 C, 100 P) H. Hedylidae of South America (15 P) Hesperiidae of South America (236 P) L.