Burt Monroe

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Burt L. Monroe, Jr (25th August 1930 - 14 May 1994, Louisville, Kentucky) was an American ornithologist, a member of the American Ornithologists' Union since 1953, as Director of the Commission of classification and nomenclature (1981-1994) and president from 1990 to 1992.

[edit] His studies

[edit] His career

• 1959 : Thesis at Louisiana State University (LSU), participaation in a number of field studies in New Zealand and Africa (1961),
• 1965 : Assistant professor of biology at the University of Louisville,
• 1970-1993 : Director of the department of biology at the University of Louisville

[edit] His work

• 1990 : His main work- Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World, in collaboration with Charles Sibley.