Percy A. Taverner

Percy A. Taverner

Percy Algernon Taverner (June 10 1875-May 9 1947) was a Canadian ornithologist.

He was born Percy Algernon Fowler in Guelph, Ontario in 1875. When his parents separated and his mother remarried, he took on his new parent's surname. Taverner, a self-taught naturalist, was the first ornithologist at the National Museum of Canada, now the Canadian Museum of Nature, from 1912 to 1942. He helped establish Point Pelee National Park and a number of bird sanctuaries across Canada, including Bonaventure Island.

Books by Taverner include:
*"Birds of Eastern Canada" (1919)
*"Birds of Western Canada" (1926)
*"Birds of Canada" (1934)

He died in Ottawa in 1947.

The Taverner Cup, a 24 hour competitive birdathon held in eastern Ontario and western Quebec, is named after him.

The Timberline Sparrow, currently considered to be a sub-species of Brewer's Sparrow, and a sub-species of Canada Goose were given the name "taverneri" in his honour.

References

* [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v065n01/p0085-p0106.pdf The Auk: Vol. 65, No. 1, January-March, 1948]


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