# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-caverhill-jerdon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:21:31.201Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-caverhill-jerdon"
name: "Thomas Caverhill Jerdon"
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description: "Thomas Caverhill Jerdon was an English physician, zoologist and botanist. He was a pioneering ornithologist who described numerous species of birds in India. Several species of plants and birds including Jerdon's baza, Jerdon's leafbird, Jerdon's bushlark, Jerdon's nightjar, Jerdon's courser, Jerdon's babbler and Jerdon's bush chat are named after him."
tagline: "British zoologist, botanist, and physician (1811-1872)"
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birthDate: "1811-10-12"
deathDate: "1872-06-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump