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Ángel Cabrera (19 February 1879 – 8 July 1960) was a Spanish zoologist. He was born in Madrid and studied at the Universidad Central, Madrid (now part of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid). He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to Morocco.
20th-century Spanish zoologists (9 P) E. Spanish entomologists (1 C, 14 P) I. Spanish ichthyologists (2 P) O. Spanish ornithologists (5 P) Pages in category "Spanish ...
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in April 1934 in Hampstead, London, [7] to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall [] (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906–2000), [8] a novelist from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, [9] who wrote under the name Vanne Morris-Goodall.
Mouthful of Birds (Spanish: Pájaros en la boca) is a short story collection by Samanta Schweblin. Originally published in Spanish, it was translated into English by Megan McDowell in 2019. [1] [2] The stories feature uncanny plot twists and unexpected endings. "Olingiris" first appeared in English in a 2010 issue of Granta. [3]
A comparison of the skeleton of birds and man in Belon's book on birds, 1555. 1551–1555. Pierre Belon (French, 1517–1564) wrote L'Histoire Naturelle des Estranges Poissons Marins (1551) and La Nature et Diversité des Poissons (1555). This latter work included 110 animal species and offered many new observations and corrections to Herodotus.
Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist [47] who classified many birds of India; José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823–1907), Portuguese zoologist with many papers on mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and others; Pieter Boddaert (1730–1795/1796), Dutch physician and naturalist [48] who named many mammals, birds and other ...
Bond collected specimens of birds for his uncle to paint. This resulted in the production of 250 copies of the book The Birds of Mt. Desert Island (1941) with 20 chromolithographs. [9] Bond's most enduring work was his guide to the Birds of the West Indies which was first published in 1936 and went into 11 editions during his lifetime. He ...
Spanish folklorist Antonio Machado y Alvarez wrote down an Andalusian tale from his own sister, titled El agua amarilla ("The yellow water"). In this tale, three sisters talk about their choices for husbands: the elder wants to marry a baker so there is not shortage of bread for her; the middle one a cook, and the youngest the king.