Jules Bourcier
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Jules Bourcier was a French
naturalist
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Bourcier was an expert on hummingbird
s, and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre
and Martial Etienne Mulsant.
Bourcier was the French consul to Ecuador from 1849 to 1850 and died in Paris in 1873.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
naturalist
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
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Bourcier was an expert on hummingbird
Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds that comprise the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring in the 7.5–13 cm range. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5-cm Bee Hummingbird. They can hover in mid-air by rapidly flapping their wings...
s, and named a number of new species, either alone or with other ornithologists such as Adolphe Delattre
Adolphe Delattre
Adolphe Delattre was a French ornithologist.Between 1831 and 1851 he made several expeditions to America, where he was particularly interested in collecting hummingbirds...
and Martial Etienne Mulsant.
Bourcier was the French consul to Ecuador from 1849 to 1850 and died in Paris in 1873.