Anton Reichenow (1847 - 1941) was a German ornithologist. Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Ornithology (from Greek ὄρνις ὄρνιθος ornis, ornithos, "bird" and λόγος logos, "knowledge" is the branch of
Reichenow was the son-in-law of Jean Cabanis, and worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921. Jean Louis Cabanis ( March 8, 1816 &mdash February 20, 1906) was a German Ornithologist. The Museum für Naturkunde (in English, the Museum of Natural History) widely known as the Naturkundemuseum, occasionally as the Humboldt Museum He was an expert on African birds, making a collecting expedition to West Africa in 1872 and 1873, and writing Die Vögel Africas (1900-05). Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. West Africa or Western Africa is the Westernmost Region of the African Continent. Year 1872 ( MDCCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He also wrote Die Vögel der Bismarckinseln (1899). He was editor of the Journal für Ornithologie from 1894 to 1921. The Journal of Ornithology (formerly Journal für Ornithologie) is a scientific journal published by the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft. Year 1894 ( MDCCCXCIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar
A number of birds are named after him, including Reichenow's Woodpecker, Reichenow's Weaver and Reichenow's Firefinch. Reichenow's Woodpecker or the Speckle-throated Woodpecker ( Campethera scriptoricauda) is an East African woodpecker often considered a subspecies of Bennett's Reichenow's Firefinch or Chad Firefinch ( Lagonosticta umbrinodorsalis) is a small Passerine Bird belonging to the Firefinch genus