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Charles Heineken (died 4 January 1830), also known as Carlos Heineken, was an English medical doctor and ornithologist. He lived on Madeira, a Portuguese island in Macaronesia, from 1826 until his death. He described the Trocaz pigeon, a Madeiran endemic bird species. He is commemorated in the scientific name of a subspecies of blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla heineken.

References

1. Zoonomen
2. Humboldt Project: letters from Heineken to Webb Archived 2009-05-16 at the Wayback Machine

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