Fernando da Costa Novaes
| Fernando da Costa Novaes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 6, 1927 João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil |
| Died | March 24, 2004 (aged 76) Belém, Pará, Brazil |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Known for | "Founder of modern Brazilian ornithology" |
| Awards |
1954 Guggenheim scholarship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ornithology |
| Institutions | Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi |
| Influences |
João Moojen José Cândido de Melo Carvalho |
1954 Guggenheim scholarship
Fernando da Costa Novaes (April 6, 1927 – March 24, 2004) was a Brazilian ornithologist who worked on the Amazonian bird fauna.
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.
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.
Novaes's many publications are listed in the obituaries by Oren and Silva (see: [1])
He is commemorated in the name of the Alagoas foliage-gleaner, Philydor novaesi.
NOVAES, F.C. 1947. Notas sobre os Conopophagidae do Museu Nacional (Passeriformes, Aves). Sum. Bras. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 1(13): 243-250.
NOVAES, F.C. 1949. Variação nos tucanos brasileiros do gênero Ramphastos L. (Ramphastidae, Piciformes). Rev. Bras. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 9(3): 285 296.
NOVAES, F.C. 1950. Sobre as aves de Sernambetiba, Distrito Federal, Brasil. Rev. Bras. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 10(2): 199-208.
NOVAES, F.C. 1950. Sobre alguns termos da sistemática zoológica. Rev. Cient., Rio de Janeiro, 1(4): 10-14.
NOVAES, F.C. 1952. Resultados ornitológicos da "Expedição João Alberto" à ilha da Trindade. Rev. Bras. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 12(2): 219-228.
NOVAES, F.C. & CARVALHO, J.M. 1952. A new genus and species of feather mite (Pterolichinae, Analgesidae). Rev. Bras. Biol., Rio de Janeiro, 12(2): 211-214.
NOVAES, F.C. & CARVALHO, J.M. 1952. A new species of Megninia from the roseate spoonbill (Analgesidae, Analgesinae). An. Acad. Bras. Cienc., Rio de Janeiro, 24(3): 303-306.
NOVAES, F.C. 1952. Algumas adendas a ornitologia de Goiás, Brasil. Bol. Mus. Nac., zool., Rio de Janeiro, (117): 1-7.
NOVAES, F.C. 1953. Sobre a validade de Syndactyla mirandae (Snethlage, 1928) (Furnariidae, Aves). Rev. Bras. Biol. Rio de Janeiro, 14(1): 75-76.
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