William Pierce Brodkorb

William Pierce Brodkorb, U.S. ornithologist and paleontologist (29.IX.1908 – 18.VII.1992). Known as Pierce Brodkorb.

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Brodkorb, P. 1952. The types of Lambrecht's fossil bird genera. The Condor 54: 174–175.

Brodkorb, P. 1953. A Pliocene Flamingo from Florida. Natural History Miscellanea 124: 1–4. Internet Archive Reference page.
Brodkorb, P. 1953. A review of the Pliocene loons. The Condor 55: 211–214.

Brodkorb, P. 1959. The Pleistocene Avifauna of Arredondo, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 4(9): 269–292. PDF Reference page.

Brodkorb, P. 1960. Great Auk and Common Murre from a Florida midden. The Auk 77: 342–343.
Brodkorb, P. 1960. How many species of birds have existed? Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences 5: 41–53.

Brodkorb, P. 1961. Birds from the Pliocene of Juntura, Oregon. Quarterly journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 24: 169–184.
Brodkorb, P. 1961. Notes on Fossil Tinamous. The Auk 72(1): 257. DOI: 10.2307/4082138

Brodkorb, P. 1962. The systematic position of two Oligocene birds from Belgium. The Auk 79: 706–707.
Brodkorb, P. 1962. A teal from the Lower Pliocene of Kansas. Quarterly journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 25: 157–160.

Brodkorb, P. 1963. A giant flightless bird from the Pleistocene of Florida. Auk 80(2): 111–115. DOI: 10.2307/4082556 Reference page.
Brodkorb, P. 1963. Catalogue of fossil birds, Part I (Archaeopterygiformes through Ardeiformes). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 7(4): 179–293. PDF Reference page.
Brodkorb, P. 1963. The name of a fossil rail and its date of publication. The Auk 80: 542.
Brodkorb, P. 1963. Miocene birds from the Hawthorne Formation in Florida. Quarterly journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 26: 159–167.

Brodkorb, P. 1964. Catalogue of fossil birds, Part II (Anseriformes through Galliformes). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 8(3): 195–335. PDF Reference page.
Brodkorb, P. 1964. Notes on fossil turkeys. Quarterly journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 27: 222–229. BHL

Brodkorb, P. 1967. Catalogue of fossil birds, Part III (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 2(3): 99–220. University of Florida Digital Collections PDF Reference page.

Brodkorb, P. 1970. Two fossil owls from the Aquitanian of France. Quarterly journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 32: 159–160.

Brodkorb, P. 1976. Discovery of a Cretaceous Bird, Apparently Ancestral to the Orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes (Aves: Carinatae). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 27: 67–73. BHL Reference page.

Brodkorb, P. 1980. A new fossil heron (Aves: Ardeidae) from the Omo basin of Ethiopia, with remarks on the position of some other species assigned to the Ardeidae. In: Campbell K.E. (ed.): Papers in avian paleontology honoring Hildegarde Howard. Natura50 History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330: 87–92.

Brodkorb, P. & Mourer-Chauviré, C. 1982. Fossil anhingas (Aves: Anhingidae) from early Man sites of Hadar and Omo (Ethiopia) and Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Geobios 15: 505–514. Reference page.