Andrew John Berger
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Andrew John Berger (August 30, 1915–July 4, 1995) was a notable American ornithologist from the American Museum of Natural History.
Berger was born in Warren, Ohio. In 1939 he made his graduation at the Oberlin College. After a study of Game management from 1940 to 1941 he married Edith Grace Denniston in 1942. The couple has two children, one son and one daughter. From 1941 to 1946 he went to the U.S. Air Forces. He finished his military time with a rank of a Major. In 1950 he obtained his doctor's degree. In 1951 he became a teacher for gross anatomy at the University of Michigan Medical School.
In addition to it his passion for birds gained. He became a member of the American Ornithologists Union and the Michigan Audubon Society. His main interests were the morphology, behavior and classification of birds from the Cuckoo family.
His further work include books about the Hawaiian avifauna (especially the Hawaiian Goose), the anatomy of birds and humans, and a remarkable article from 1957 where he describes the extinct Bourbon Crested Starling and its relationship to other bird families. He died in Hawaii in 1995.
[edit] Works
- 1957 On the anatomy and relationships of Fregilupus varius, an extinct starling from the Mascarene Islands. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 113, article 3
- 1964 Elementary Human Anatomy
- 1966 Avian myology
- 1967 Hawaii's birds
- 1971 Fundamentals of Ornithology
- 1971 Bird Study
- 1972 Hawaiian birdlife
- 1976 Fundamentals of Ornithology, 2nd Edition
- 1977 The exotic birds of Hawaii
- 1980 Hawaiian Goose - An Experiment of Conservation
- 1981 Hawaiian Birdlife, 2nd Edition
