Here are a few individuals you might have heard about in our exhibitions Eggscentricity 1 and 2. This is by far not everyone!

Ornithology – the scientific study of birds.
Oology – the study or collecting of birds’ eggs.

Allen, Joel A. (1838-1921)
American zoologist, Mammalogist, Ornithologist
Curator of Mammals & Birds, NY Museum 1885
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Asaph_Allen

Bendire, Charles (1836-1897)
U.S. Army Soldier, Ornithologist, Oologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bendire

Bent, Arthur Cleveland (1866-1954)
American Ornithologist
Wrote 21 volume Life Histories of North American Birds, published 1919-1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Cleveland_Bent

Bicknell, Eugene (1859-1925)
American Botantist, Ornithologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_P._Bicknell

Brewster, William (1851-1919)
American Ornithologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Brewster_(ornithologist)

Cory, Charles B. (2857-1921)
American Ornithologist, Golfer, Outdoorsman, and Author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._Cory

Coues, Elliot (1842-1899)
American Army Surgeon, Historian, Ornithologist, and Author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Coues

Maynard, Charles J. (1845-1929)
American Naturalist, Ornithologist, Taxidermist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Johnson_Maynard

Merriam, Dr. C. Hart (1855-1942)
American Zoologist, Mammalogist, Ornithologist, Entomologist, Ecologist,
Ethnographer, Geographer, Naturalist and Physician
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Hart_Merriam

Ridgway, Robert (1850-1929)
American Ornithologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ridgway