Louis Pierre Vieillot
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Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.[lower-alpha 1]
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Louis Pierre Vieillot | |
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Born | (1748-05-10)10 May 1748 Yvetot, Seine-Maritime, France |
Died | 24 August 1830(1830-08-24) (aged 82) Sotteville-lès-Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France |
Known for | Analyse d'une nouvelle Ornithologie Elémentaire (1816) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ornithology |
Institutions | Saint-Domingue, Hispaniola (now Haiti) |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Vieillot |
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Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collected himself in the West Indies and North America and South American species discovered but not formally named by Félix de Azara and his translator Sonnini de Manoncourt.[3] He was among the first ornithologists to study changes in plumage and one of the first to study live birds. At least 77 of the genera erected by Vieillot are still in use.[4]