Richard Bowdler Sharpe 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.
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Richard Bowdler Sharpe
![Sharpe's zoogeographical map[7]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Bird_regions.jpg/1280px-Bird_regions.jpg)
Sharpe's zoogeographical map[7]
After receiving a doctorate from Aberdeen University
Cover of Sharpe's Sketch-Book of British Birds (1898) designed by A.F. (Alexander Francis) and C. Lydon
Books of birds by Bowdler Sharpe: Male birds-of-paradise like Paradisaea decora compete for mates with elaborate patterns and displays developed by sexual selection.Awards 5
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Alfred NewtonAlso won Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
George GreyAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
Lars Magnus EricssonAlso won honorary degree
Edward Adrian WilsonAlso won Fellow of the Zoological Society of London
Ferdinand von MuellerAlso won Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te ApārangiAbout this person
Richard Bowdler Sharpe 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 and Sharpe's starling.
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