Ongoing events
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert was a widely published German ornithologist.
Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist.
The eastern black-headed batis is a passerine bird in the family Platysteiridae from eastern Africa. It was formerly treated as conspecific with the western black-headed batis.
Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer was a German ornithologist. He made early studies of the birds of Pomerania, making collections, and was a staunch anti-Darwinian.
Events relating to birding and ornithology that occurred in 1901 include:
Paul Georg Heinrich Martin Reinhold Leverkühn was a German physician and ornithologist.
Birds described in 1893 include Attwater's prairie chicken, the Auckland rail, blue-winged racket-tail, black-winged petrel, Laysan albatross, Chatham petrel, Mauritius night heron, Mauritius scops owl, purple-breasted sunbird, violet-throated metaltail, white-bellied tyrannulet, Whyte's barbet and the white-bellied crested flycatcher.
Count Otto Eduard von Zedlitz und Trützschler was a German nobleman, naturalist, explorer and writer. He settled in to Tofhult, Sweden after World War I.
Friedrich Christian Steinbacher was a German mathematician, high-school teacher, natural scientist and ornithologist. He helped Ernst Hartert produce a comprehensive work on the palearctic bird fauna, Die Vögel der paläarktischen Fauna and continued to edit it after Hartert's death from 1933 to 1938. He was the father of Georg and uncle of Joachim Steinbacher who also became ornithologists.