Harry Church Oberholser
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Harry Church Oberholser was an American
United States
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 ornithologist.

Oberholser worked for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey (later the United States Fish and Wildlife Service) from 1895 to 1941, first as an ornithologist, later as a biologist, and finally as an editor. He was the author of a number of books and articles. The Empidinax oberholseri (Dusky Flycatcher
Dusky Flycatcher
The American Dusky Flycatcher, or simply Dusky Flycatcher, is a small, insectivorous passerine of the tyrant flycatcher family....

) was named in honor of him.

Books

  • The Bird Life of Texas (1974) ISBN 0-292-70711-8
  • Birds of Mt. Kilimanjaro (1905)
  • Birds of the Anamba Islands (1917)
  • The Bird Life of Louisiana (1938)
  • When Passenger Pigeons Flew in the Killbuck Valley (1999) ISBN 1-888683-96-1
  • Critical notes on the subspecies of the spotted owl
  • The birds of the Tambelan Islands, South China Sea
  • The great plains waterfowl breeding grounds and their protection (1918)
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