Roberto Dabbene was an Italian

Italy

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-Argentine

Argentina

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 ornithologist.

Born in Turin

Turin

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, he doctorated in 1884 at the University of Genoa

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 and moved to Argentina in 1887. After teaching chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, he moved to Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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in 1890 to work in at the city zoo. He studied the Argentine birds for over 40 years, writing many of the most important books on the subject.

Work

• "Contribución a la ornitología del Paraguay",Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires 23: 283-390 (1912)
• "Notas sobre una colección de Avesde la Isla Martín García", El Hornero 1 (1917). (1): 29-34; (2): 89-96; (3): 160-168; (4): 236-248.
• "Los pingüinos de las costas e islas de los mares argentinos", El Hornero 2 (1): 1-9 (1920)
• "Tres aves nuevas para la avifauna uruguaya", El Hornero 3 (4): 422 (1926)
• "The ornithological collection of the Museo Nacional, Buenos Aires its origin, development and present condition", The Auk Vol. 43 N. 1: 37-46 (1926)
• "Las palomas y tórtolas de la Argentina", Revista Diosa Cazadora, Suplemento (125) (1938)
• "Fauna Magallánica. Mamíferos y aves de la Tierra del Fuego e islas adyacentes"