Andrew John Berger – Wikipedia

Andrew John Berger (* August 30, 1915 in Warren, Ohio, † July 4, 1995 in Hawaii) was an American ornithologist and anatoma.

In 1939, Berger at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio with the Bachelor’s degree. From 1940 to 1941 he ran field studies as part of the wildlife management of the University of Missouri. In 1942 he married Edith Grace Denniston. The children John Denniston Berger and Diana Marie Berger emerged from this marriage. From 1941 to 1946 he served as an officer at the United States Army Air Corps. After the war, he continued his military service as a reservist at the United States Army Air Forces and was released with the rank of a lieutenant colonel. In 1946, Berger wrote down in the University of Michigan, where he received his doctorate in the Three Subfamily of Cuculiformes in 1947 with the comparative functional morphology of the pelvic appendage in the three. From 1951 to 1963 he taught macroscopic anatomy at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Between 1954 and the end of 1963 he carried out field studies to research the way of life and the breeding behavior of the Michiganwald singer.

In the spring semester of 1964 he accepted a visiting professorship at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After taught for a year at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India, he returned to Hawaii and had twice the chair of the zoology department of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Although his initial interests of morphology, the behavior and classification of cuckoo were applied, he specialized from 1965 in the research of the natural history and living conditions of the endemic avifauna of the Hawaii Islands. In addition, Andrew John Berger was a committed conservationist who successfully supported nature conservation organizations in trials against the US government with his expert knowledge. In a process for the preservation of the palila, he campaigned for not only the species itself, but also its habitat.

Andrew John Berger wrote several works on the Hawaiian Avifauna, especially about the Hawaiigans. He also wrote books about the anatomy of birds and people. For the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History In 1957 he wrote the extensive article “On the anatomy and Relationships of Fregilupus Varius, to extinct Starling from the mascarene Islands”, where he over the extinct hopstar ( Fregilupus varius ) and his relatives spoke to other bird families.

Berger was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithologists ’Union and the National Audubon Society of Michigan.

• 1954: The Myology of the pectoral appendage of three genera of American Cuckoos… Miscellaneous publications – Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan
• 1956: On the Anatomy and Relationships of Glossy Cuckoos of the Genera Chrysococcyx, Lampromorpha, and Chalcites
• 1957: On the anatomy and relationships of Fregilupus varius, an extinct starling from the Mascarene Islands In: Bulletin of the AMNH; Volume 113, Article 3 ( Online edition ; Pdf; 44.1 MB)
• 1959: Fundamentals of Ornithology (Mit Josseslyn van Tyne)
• 1964: Elementary Human Anatomy
• 1966: Avian Myology
• 1967: Hawaii’s Birds
• 1969: The Breeding Season of the Hawaii ʻAmakihi .
• 1970: The Illustrated Atlas of Hawaii
• 1971: Bird Study ISBN 978-0-486-22699-6
• 1972: Birds of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
• 1972: Birds of the Kilauea Forest Reserve
• 1972: Second-progress Report and Third-year Budget, International Biologica Program (IBP) Island Ecosystems Stability and Evolution Subprogram: NSF Grant GB-23230
• 1972: Hawaiian Birdlife ISBN 978-0-8248-0213-4
• 1974: Proposal for the Study of Rare and Endangered Birds in Hawaii’s National Parks
• 1975: Haleakala National Park Resources Basic Inventory, 1975: Narrative Report
• 1976: Fundamentals of Ornithology 2nd edition ISBN 978-0-608-18101-1
• 1977: The Exotic Birds of Hawaii
• 1980: Hawaiian Goose – An Experiment of Conservation (with janet time) ISBN 978-03115-04-5
• 1981: Hawaiian Birdlife 2nd Edition
• 1985: Puna Geothermal Area Biotic Assessment, Puna District, County of Hawaii: Final Report
• 1993: Birdlife in Hawaii ISBN 978-0-89610-282-8