• Storrs Lovejoy Olson (April 3, 1944 – January 20, 2021) was an American biologist and ornithologist who spent his career at the Smithsonian Institution...
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    described as the monotypic genus Geochen, but then reassigned to Branta by Storrs L. Olson in 2013 after reexamination of the subfossil material. The bird was...
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    Saint Helena hoopoe (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    could only maintain his strength when in contact with the ground. Storrs L. Olson, who described the Saint Helena hoopoe, drew parallels between the...
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  • extinct species of duck. It was first described by Andrew N. Iwaniuk, Storrs L. Olson, and Helen F. James in the journal Zootaxa in November 2009. It is...
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  • from the Pleistocene of Cuba. It was described by Oscar Arredondo and Storrs L. Olson in 1994 from three bones found in a cave in the Guaniguanico mountain...
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    Ascension crake (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728746A94995240.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021. Olson, Storrs L. (1973). "Evolution of the rails of the South Atlantic islands (Aves:...
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  • megapode. The subfossil remains were found by Jean-Christophe Balouet and Storrs L. Olson in the Pindai Caves of New Caledonia. Its remains have also been found...
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    Blue-winged warbler (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    R. Terry; Banks, Richard C.; Barker, F. Keith; Cicero, Carla; Dunn, Jon L.; Kratter, Andrew W.; Lovette, Irby J.; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Remsen, J. V...
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    2009-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, 3rd edition. Storrs L. Olson, 1999. Two open letters from Storrs Olson (LONG) Archived 2011-10-22 at the Wayback Machine...
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    dominica), version 1.0". Birds of the World. doi:10.2173/bow.yetwar.01. Storrs L. Olson; Helen F. James & Charles A. Meister (1981). "Winter field notes and...
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    James Tate, Jr. (1970). "A new turkey from the Pliocene of Nebraska" Storrs L. Olson; John Farrand, Jr. (1974). "Rhegminornis restudies: a tiny Miocene...
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    Ornithological Society: 172–180. doi:10.2307/1368806. JSTOR 1368806. Olson, Storrs L.; James, Helen F (1991). "Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of...
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  • Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 27: 155–168. Storrs L. Olson (1976). "Oligocene Fossils Bearing...
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    Ichthyornis, Hesperornis, and others. Notable paleornithologists are Storrs L. Olson, Alexander Wetmore, Alan Feduccia, Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Philip Ashmole...
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    Sungrebe, Heliornis fulica Masked finfoot, Heliopais personata Olson, Storrs L.; Olson, Storrs L. (2003). "First fossil record of a finfoot (Aves: Heliornithidae)...
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  • researcher in photosynthesis Mancur Olson, Jr. (1932–1988), American economist and social scientist Storrs L. Olson (1944–2021), American biologist, ornithologist...
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    Olson's petrel (Bulweria bifax), also known as the small Saint Helena petrel or the Saint Helena Bulwer's petrel, is an extinct species of seabird in...
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  • Nēnē-nui (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    com/news/2002/02/0206_020206_canadiangeese.html James, Helen F. & Olson, Storrs L. (1991): Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian...
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    Saint Helena cuckoo (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae Genus: †Nannococcyx Olson, 1975 Species: †N. psix Binomial name †Nannococcyx psix Olson, 1975 Location of Saint Helena...
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    Biology. 4: 28. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-4-28. PMC 515296. PMID 15329156. Olson, Storrs L.; Rasmussen, Pamela C. (2001). "Miocene and Pliocene Birds from the...
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  • Ibis pagana. Richard Sharpe classified it in the genus Eudocimus, but Storrs L. Olson placed it in the genus Plegadis due to anatomical similarities closer...
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    many unauthorized and uncredited. Even one of his scientific critics, Storrs L. Olson, described him in a review in the Scientific American as "a superior...
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  • Ogilvie-Grant – Scotland Claes Christian Olrog – Sweden/Argentina Storrs L. Olson – US Eduard Daniël van Oort – Netherlands Alcide d'Orbigny – France...
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  • Bermuda saw-whet owl (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Strigiformes Family: Strigidae Genus: Aegolius Species: †A. gradyi Binomial name †Aegolius gradyi Olson, 2012...
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    into the new genus Aphanocrex. However, in 1973 American paleontologist Storrs Olson synonymised this genus with the genus Atlantisia, the other representative...
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    d'Amérique, Grébifoulque de Cayenne Dutch: Kleine Fuutkoet Olson, Storrs L.; Olson, Storrs L. (2003). "First fossil record of a finfoot (Aves: Heliornithidae)...
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    Tradition of Tristan da Cunha. Rowlands, Beau W., Trevor Trueman, Storrs L. Olson, M. Neil McCulloch, and Richard K. Brooke – The Birds of St. Helena...
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  • Saint Helena petrel (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    Aves Order: Procellariiformes Family: Procellariidae Genus: Pseudobulweria Species: †P. rupinarum Binomial name †Pseudobulweria rupinarum (Olson, 1975)...
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    "the most unimaginative name ever applied to a fossil" in the view of Storrs L. Olson – does in no way refer to the bird's startling and at that time unprecedented...
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    Robust crow (category Taxa named by Storrs L. Olson)
    humans, the first recorded fossils of Corvus viriosus were collected by Storrs L. Olson, an American ornithologist who was working for the National Museum...
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