Frank Michler Chapman (1864–1945)

Author of Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

About the Author

Frank Michler Chapman was an American ornithologist and pioneer writer of field guides. Throughout his lifetime, he published more than twenty books and dozens of articles, all in the field of natural history. Chapman was a founding member of the Explorers Club and the Museum of Natural History. He show more passed away in 1945 in New York City. show less

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Works by Frank Michler Chapman

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Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America (1895) 94 copies, 1 review

Bird Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds (2009) 58 copies, 2 reviews

The Warblers of North America (1968) 45 copies, 1 review

What Bird is That? (1934) 35 copies

Color Key to North American Birds (1903) 33 copies

Camps and cruises of an ornithologist (2007) 12 copies

Bird studies with a camera; with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer (1903) 11 copies

Life in an air castle; nature studies in the tropics (1938) 9 copies

My tropical air castle;: Nature studies in Panama, (1929) 9 copies

The Travels of Birds: Our Birds and Their Journeys to Strange Lands (2018) 9 copies

Autobiography of a bird-lover (2013) 8 copies

Our Winter Birds; How to Know and How to Attract Them (2010) 4 copies

Bird Lore (vol. 24, #4) (1924) 2 copies

The economic value of birds to the state 2 copies

Frank M. Chapman in Florida: his journals & letters 2 copies

The distribution of bird life in the Urubamba valley of Peru : a report on the birds collected by the Yale university National geographic society's expeditions (2017) 2 copies

The distribution of bird-life in Ecuador: A contribution to a study of the origin of Andean bird-life (Bulletin of the A 2 copies

The distribution of bird-life in Colombia: A contribution to a biological survey of South America (Bulletin of the Ameri (2012) 2 copies

Visitors' guide to the local collection of birds in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City: With an annotated list of the birds known to occur within fifty miles of… (1894) 1 copy

Bird-Lore Vol. XXII (2) 1920 (1924) 1 copy

Visitor's Guide to the Collection of Birds Found Within Fifty Miles of New York City 1 copy

Bird Lore (vol. 13, # 5) 1 copy

Bird Lore (vol. 24, # 3) (1958) 1 copy

Bird-Lore Vol. XXII (1) 1920 (1924) 1 copy

Bird Lore, v. 21 1 copy

Bird Lore, v. 20 1 copy

The courtship of Gould's Manakin (Manacus vitellinus vitellenus) on Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone (1935) 1 copy

The post-glacial history of Zonotrichia capensis 1 copy

The Habitat Groups Of North American Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History; No. 28 (1930) 1 copy

Descriptions of proposed new birds from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile (American Museum novitates) (Ameri 1 copy

Descriptions of new birds from Mocha Island, Chile, and the Falkland Islands: With comments on their bird life and that 1 copy

Six Bits Series (Six Bits, Another Six Bits and six bits more) 1 copy

Descriptions of proposed new birds from Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile (Bulletin / American Museum of Natural Histor 1 copy

The Birds of the Vicinity of New York City-a Guide to the Local Collection of the Department of Ornithology (1906) 1 copy

Bird-Lore Vol. XVII, No. 1. January-February, 1915 (1915) 1 copy

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Tales of Old Florida (2008) — Contributor — 209 copies, 1 review

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Birthdate: 1864-06-12
Date of death: 1945-11-15
Gender: male
Education: Englewood Academy
Occupations: ornithologist
museum curator
conservationist
Organizations: American Museum of Natural History
Awards and honors: Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1917)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: West Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Places of residence: West Englewood, New Jersey, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA
Florida, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Burial location: Brookside Cemetery,Englewood, New Jersey
Associated Place (for map): USA

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EricCostello 1,117 reviews

Birds of Eastern North America by Frank M. Chapman

The ancestor of the Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides that emerged in the 1930s; while not quite as well organized, this still contains a great deal of valuable information, including information on birds (such as the passenger pigeon or heath hen) that no longer exist. A section on collecting birds, nests and eggs certainly wouldn't be in any modern book!

Aug 10, 2018

GoshenMAHistory 183 reviews

Bird Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds by Frank M. Chapman