Fernando da Costa Novaes
Born(1927-04-06)April 6, 1927
DiedMarch 24, 2004(2004-03-24) (aged 76)
Belém, Pará, Brazil
Alma materFederal University of Rio de Janeiro
Known for"Founder of modern Brazilian ornithology"
Awards1954 Guggenheim scholarship
1991 Ordem do Mérito do Grão-Pará, Comendador
Scientific career
FieldsOrnithology
InstitutionsMuseu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

Fernando da Costa Novaes (April 6, 1927 – March 24, 2004) was a Brazilian ornithologist who worked on the Amazonian bird fauna.[1]

Education

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In 1971 he was granted his doctorate from the State University of São Paulo at Rio Claro, with the thesis Estudo ecológico das aves em uma área de vegetação secundária do baixo rio Amazonas, Estado do Pará.

Career

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Novaes was based at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, in Belém, where he assembled the second largest bird skin and skeleton collection in Brazil. This collection has been renamed in his honor. His major contributions were in defining the Amazon region's faunal boundaries and affinities, as well as clarifying taxonomic problems.

In 1954, Novaes was granted a Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to study in the US, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, of the University of California at Berkeley, with the renowned ornithologist Alden H. Miller.

Novaes's many publications are listed in the obituaries by Oren and Silva.[2]

He is commemorated in the name of the Alagoas foliage-gleaner, Philydor novaesi.

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Rare Mop-Topped Monkey Spotted In Brazil For First Time In Over 80 Years". Gizmodo Australia. 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
  2. ^ . 2008-10-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20081010150900/http://www.cbro.org.br/CBRO/pdf/nat2esp.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2020-01-08. ((cite web)): Missing or empty |title= (help)