Charles Dixon was an English

English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

 ornithologist

Ornithology

Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...

, born in London

London

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. He discovered the St Kilda Wren

St Kilda Wren

The St Kilda Wren, Troglodytes troglodytes hirtensis, is a small passerine bird in the wren family. It is a distinctive subspecies of the Winter Wren endemic to the islands of the isolated St Kilda archipelago, in the Atlantic Ocean 64 km west of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland...

 and a new species in North Africa. He collaborated with Henry Seebohm

Henry Seebohm

Henry Seebohm was an English steel manufacturer, and amateur ornithologist, oologist and traveller.Seebohm was born in Bradford. His interest in natural history led him to travel widely, in Greece, Scandinavia, Turkey, and South Africa...

 on his great work on British Birds, in the second volume of which he summarized and modified A. R. Wallace's

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...

 theory of the relation between nests and coloration of birds. Dixon made a special study of bird migration

Bird migration

Bird migration is the regular seasonal journey undertaken by many species of birds. Bird movements include those made in response to changes in food availability, habitat or weather. Sometimes, journeys are not termed "true migration" because they are irregular or in only one direction...

 — especially in his book The Migration of Birds (new edition, 1897), an ingenious but overtheoretical work — and of geographical distribution of birds. Of his many books, the following may be mentioned:

• Rural Bird Life (1880)
• Evolution without Natural Selection (1885)
• Our Rarer Birds (1888). An illustration to this is found here:
• The Nests and Eggs of British Birds (1893; illustrated, 1894)
• British Sea Birds (1896)
• Lost and Vanishing Birds (1898)
• Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands (1899)
• Birds' Nests (1902)
• The Bird Life of London (1909)

He is commemorated in the name of the Long-tailed Thrush

Long-tailed Thrush

The Long-tailed Thrush is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam....

Zoothera dixoni.

External links

• Birds of a Southern County