Biswamoy Biswas

✶June 2, 1923

†August 10, 1994

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About their life

Biswamoy Biswas was an Indian ornithologist who was born in Calcutta, the son of a professor of geology. In 1947, he was awarded a three-year fellowship by Sunderlal Hora, then director of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). It enabled him to study at the British Museum, at the Berlin Zoological Museum under Erwin Stresemann and also at the American Museum of Natural History under Ernst Mayr.

Indian ornithologist (1923–1994)

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