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Titre :	[Tropical ornithology and the German speaking countries: Anything but an exotic contribution]
Auteurs :	Christoph Hinkelmann, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Ornithologischer Anzeiger (39(1) Feb., 2000)
Article en page(s) :	63-79
Résumé :	Ornithology of tropical regions and the German speaking countries of Central Europe appear to have not very much in common. However, history of the ornithology of tropical regions and the progress of knowledge on tropical birds cannot be adecuately considered without the contribution of collectors and researchers from the German speaking countries. As documented, the first men interested in tropical birds travelled to Brazil (Georg Markgraf) and Dutch East India (today: Indonesia; Georg Eberhard Rumpf) in the 17th century. In the 18th century, Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Georg accompanied James Cook on his second voyage around the world. In later times, German, Austrian and Swiss ornithologists and collectors visited almost all tropical regions, but had particular interests in South and Central America as well as in Africa. This latter continent was visited intensively when imperial Germany established colonies in four major parts of Africa as well as in

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